CONFIRMED: Terrorist Organization Trained on US Soil by US Military

Series of mainstream admissions of US &
Israeli state-sponsored terrorism.
by Tony Cartalucci

April 8, 2012 -
Ynetnews reported in their article, "US operated
deep in Iran, trained assassins," that, "the New Yorker reported over the
weekend that the US trained members of the Iranian opposition group
Mujahideen-e-Khalq. According to previous reports, Israel has been cooperating
with the group, which allegedly carried out hits on Iranian nuclear scientists."
Ynetnews also reported that US officials doubt Iran is or will be developing
nuclear weapons, as has been claimed to justify years of sanctions, covert
subversion, terrorism, and unprovoked attacks by the West against Iran.



Image: Rudy Giuliani consorting with MEK's political wing
leader Maryam Rajavi in Paris, France. Giuliani is best known for his role
playing a strong supporter for the "War on Terror" and his incessant fear
mongering verses "Islamic extremists." In real life, he coddles listed terrorist
organizations in direct violation of US law and even lobbies for
them.


It appears that not only
Israel, but the US in tandem with Mossad have been training, arming, financing,
harboring, and directing the US State
Department-listed foreign terror organization (#29) Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK)
since as early as 2005 where MEK terrorists were brought to Las Vegas, Nevada to
train. The April 2012 New Yorker article, "Our Men
in Iran?" by Seymour Hersh, elaborates in detail how the Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC) trained a listed terrorist organization on US soil
before sending them back to Iran with weapons and money to carry out
"anti-regime terrorist activities." MEK is suspected to be behind a rash of
assassinations targeting Iranian scientists, as well as handling
patsies in a string of international bombings US and Israeli officials
attempted to pin on Iran.

And while MEK's representatives, including a
growing lobby in Washington D.C. consisting of some of the most disingenuous
supporters of the "War on Terror," including Rudy Giuliani, former US Marine
Commandant General James Jones, Tom Ridge, and Lee Hamilton, claim MEK has
renounced "terror," the entire purpose of training them, funding them, and
getting them removed from the US State Department "Foreign Terrorist
Organization" list is to allow them to carry out a wider campaign of violence
against the Iranian people with even greater US support. In essence - to support
terror on an unprecedented scale.

This is stated in US policy think-tank
Brookings Institution's "Which Path to Persia?" report published in 2009 which
stated (emphasis added):

"Perhaps the most prominent (and certainly the most controversial)
opposition group that has attracted attention as a potential U.S. proxy is the
NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), the political movement established by the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq).
Critics believe the group to be undemocratic and unpopular, and indeed
anti-American.

In contrast, the group’s champions contend that the
movement’s long-standing opposition to the Iranian regime and record of
successful attacks on and intelligence-gathering operations against the regime
make it worthy of U.S. support. They also argue that the group is no longer
anti-American and question the merit of earlier accusations. Raymond Tanter, one
of the group’s supporters in the United States, contends that the MEK and the NCRI are allies for regime change
in Tehran and also act as a useful proxy for gathering intelligence. The
MEK’s greatest intelligence coup was the provision of intelligence in 2002 that
led to the discovery of a secret site in Iran for enriching uranium.

Despite its defenders’ claims, the MEK remains on
the U.S. government list of foreign terrorist organizations. In the 1970s, the group killed three U.S. officers and
three civilian contractors in Iran. During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis,
the group praised the decision to take America hostages and Elaine Sciolino
reported that while group leaders publicly condemned the 9/11 attacks, within
the group celebrations were widespread.

Undeniably, the group has conducted terrorist
attacks—often excused by the MEK’s advocates because they are directed
against the Iranian government. For example, in 1981, the group bombed the
headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, which was then the clerical
leadership’s main political organization, killing an estimated 70 senior
officials. More recently, the group has claimed
credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on
Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001. At the very
least, to work more closely with the group (at least in an overt manner), Washington would need to remove it from the list of
foreign terrorist organizations."

- page 117-118
of "Which
Path to Persia?" Brookings
Institution, 2009

Clearly the United States, its policy
makers, and "elected representatives" are well aware that MEK was, and still is
a terrorist organization, targeting not only military and political targets in
Iran, but civilian targets as well. The indefensible excuse being used now, is
that MEK's terrorist activities are only being directed at the people of Iran,
not the West, therefore it is somehow justifiable.






MEK has carried out decades of
brutal terrorist attacks, assassinations, and espionage against the Iranian
government and its people, as well as targeting Americans including the
attempted kidnapping of US
Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, the attempted assassination of USAF
Brigadier General
Harold Price, the successful assassination of Lieutenant Colonel
Louis Lee Hawkins, the double assassinations of Colonel
Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner, and the successful ambush
and killing of American Rockwell International employees William Cottrell,
Donald Smith, and Robert Krongard.

Admissions to the deaths of the
Rockwell International employees can be found within a
report written by former US State Department and Department of Defense official
Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. on behalf of the lobbying firm Akin Gump in an attempt to
dismiss concerns over MEK's violent past and how it connects to its current
campaign of armed terror - a true testament to the depths of depravity from
which Washington and London lobbyists operate.

MEK today is described by Council on Foreign
Relations Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh (who was attempting to defend MEK) as a
"cult-like organization" with "totalitarian tendencies." While Takeyh fails to
expand on what he meant by "cult-like" and "totalitarian," an
interview with US State Department-run Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
reported that a MEK Camp Ashraf escapee claimed the terrorist organization bans
marriage, using radios, the Internet, and holds many members against their will
with the threat of death if ever they are caught attempting to
escape.

With a similar story being uncovered behind Al
Qaeda's Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which has been for decades
backed, armed, trained, and directed by
the CIA and MI6 under varying banners up to and including NATO's recent 2011
Libyan intervention - a pattern of using "terrorists" as both a convenient casus
belli and as an effective proxy military force is becoming apparent. With LIFG
commander Abdul
Hakim Belhaj turning up in Syria carrying out a NATO-backed campaign to
topple President Bashar al-Assad, it appears terrorist mercenaries in the employ
of the West are at work there as well. Tales of "pro-democracy" "freedom
fighters" are spun for anyone ignorant enough to believe them, while in reality
the violence there is nothing more than the symptoms of neo-imperial
machinations.

The War on Terror is a Fraud

The "War
on Terror" is a fraud. For 10 years the West, and in particular America's
armed forces have been lied to, misled, and bled dry literally while the
American tax payers have been bled dry financially. Americans have resigned
their personal freedoms to the "Patriot Act" and the increasingly perverse and
invasive Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The corporate-financier
think-tanks, like the Brookings Institution, who conspire to train, arm, and
fund terrorist organizations we supposedly sent thousands of our sons to die
fighting, and who's "omnipresent danger" we have surrendered our liberties to
help combat, do so not for the greater good of the American people, but for the
greater good of the
corporate-financier sponsors that fund their work.



Image: Some of the corporate
sponsors behind the Brookings Institution, who have openly conspired to
fund, train, and arm terrorist organizations to carry out regime change in Iran.
America is bled to death literally and financially to fight wars of conquest
justified by claiming armies of omnipresent terrorists threaten the West's way
of life, when this very army of terrorists is a creation of the
corporate-financier oligarchs in Wall Street and London in the first place.
(click image to enlarge)


For it is the
corporate-financier oligarchs who have made trillions fighting this unending
war, who have had barriers such as individual liberty and state sovereignty torn
down in their quest for more wealth and power, and who have overturned nation
after nation only then to be rolled into their growing Wall Street-London
collective. This
is modern global empire - its moral imperative one entirely contrived to
hide a glaring reality so outrageous even when it is admitted amongst the
mainstream press, the general public has no idea, apparently, what to make of
it.

It would be suggested, however, that the public identify these
corporations, boycott
them completely, and replace
them with a new, local paradigm with a moral imperative derived from their
own personal convictions - not ideology sold to them on the corporate-sponsored
evening news.