Training Terrorists in Nevada: Seymour Hersh on U.S. Aid to Iranian Group

[The Northerner]

DemocracyNow.org - Journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department's list of foreign terrorists. Hersh reports the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command trained operatives from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, at a secret site in Nevada beginning in 2005. According to Hersh, MEK members were trained in intercepting communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics at the Nevada site up until President Obama took office. The MEK has been listed as a foreign terrorist groups since 1997 and is linked to a number of attacks, spanning from the murders of six U.S. citizens in the 1970s to the recent wave of assassinations targeting Iranian nuclear scientists. Hersh also discusses the role of Israeli intelligence and notes the Obama administration knew about the training, "because they have access to what was going on in the previous administration in this area, in terms of the MEK, in terms of operations inside Iran." His new report for The New Yorker blog, "Our Men in Iran?," comes as nuclear talks are set to resume this week between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

[Dumpster Macaine]

1. ..."A First For U.S. Foreign Policy"?

Great post. Something you'll never get on the Mainstream Media. But Ms. Goodman must be kidding when she starts out saying arming and training surrogates in Iran "appears to be a first for U.S. foreign policy". Where has she been the last 50 years?

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2. strange

Topple one terrible regime in favor of another.