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Neocon Nuttery See other Neocon Nuttery Articles Title: US dilemma: PEJAK is friend, PKK is terrorist The United States faces a serious dilemma as it tries to befriend the Kurds who have launched violent attacks in northwestern Iran while it declares their comrades who are undertaking similar attacks in Turkey as terrorists. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been branded as a terrorist group by the United States has been waging a violent campaign in Turkey since 1984. The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PEJAK) in return is an off shoot of the PKK militants who are holed up in the northern Iraqi Kurdish mountains. However, PEJAK operates in Iran. The Americans regard PEJAK as a valuable asset to harass Iran and reportedly provide material and moral support for the organization. PEJAK has been involved in several terrorist attacks in northwestern Iran recently. PEJAK leader Rahman Haji-Ahmadi, who is based in Cologne, Germany recently visited the United States. Haji-Ahmadi reportedly entered the country with a German passport. Earlier, Haji-Ahmadi admitted having good relations with the US and German governments, noting that they know everything about the group. Haji-Ahmadi also told the German ARD television network that he directs PEJAK's operations from Germany. He claimed major powers help PEJAK military bases and American army generals oversee their activities. Haji-Ahmadi pointed out that some US generals even visit PEJAK's military camps and have good ties with the group. "The presence of PEJAK in Iraq is even useful for the US because if PEJAK does not rule, Islam will rule," he said. Earlier, in a similar interview with the Kurdish newspaper Media, Haji-Ahmadi acknowledged that US senators and generals had met with PEJAK leaders in Iraq's Kandil mountains, which is a base of the PKK. In a special interview Haji-Ahmadi told NewsMax he hoped to meet with senior administration officials in Washington to discuss the situation inside Iran and how the U.S. could help the opposition. He told NewsMax "with U.S. help, we will lead the Kurdish people in an uprising that could spread to the whole of Iran." PEJAK fighters seized government buildings in Marivan briefly in the summer of 2005, in armed clashes with regime security forces that spread to major cities and towns through the Kurdish region. The clashes were sparked by the brutal murder of a Kurdish human rights activist. PEJAK claims that its armed fighters control the streets of major towns and cities in northwestern Iran after the Revolutionary Guards troops return to barracks in the late afternoons. Forty percent of their militants are women, Ahmadi claims. Women also make up 50 percent of the group's political leadership. "We are a decidedly modern party," he claimed. Turkish officials say they also agree that PEJAK is an extension of the PKK and should not be tolerated. Turkey has been pushing the American administration to put a lid on the PKK in northern Iraq. Iran has recently launched and air and land assault on the areas where PKK and PEJAK militants are holed up. The Iraqis claim Turkey was also involved in the shelling and that Ankara and Tehran are coordinating their anti-terrorist campaign.
Poster Comment: We can't find those missing 190,000 AK-47's, yada, yada... In the Nov. 27 issue of The New Yorker, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote that PEJAK was receiving support from the U.S. as well as from Israel, which fears Iran's nuclear ambitions and Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe the Jewish state off the map." PEJAK says it regularly launches raids into Iran, and Iran has fired back with artillery. In October the English-language Iran Daily, published by Iran's official news agency, said Iran accused PEJAK of killing dozens of its armed forces in insurgent attacks. So here we have the PEJAK forces, possibly financed by the US and Israel, attacking and killing Iranians inside Iran. And they are doing so from a territory that is controlled by US forces.
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Don't skirmishes often precede major battles?
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