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Pentagon Trained Terrorists In Nevada to Use Against Iran
April 8, 2012
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By Sherwood Ross
BlacklistedNews.com
The Pentagon trained members of the dissident Iranian terrorist group M.E.K. in Nevada starting in 2005, after which they returned to Iran and may have engaged in covert activities, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports in the April 6th issue of “The New Yorker” magazine.
The group receiving the training incredibly had been listed in 1997 as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, and remains on that list today, Hersh said. Hersh’s article, “Our Men in Iran?” says the training was conducted by the Joint Special Operations Command(JSOC)---a charge JSOC denies. “U.S. Special Operations Forces were neither aware of nor involved in the training of M.E.K. members,” a JSOC spokesperson said.
The Nevada training operation, on a site 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was shut down sometime before President Obama took office in 2009, the article said.
TOKYO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Japanese trading houses will cut Iranian crude imports from April, industry sources said on Tuesday, in the latest sign that Western sanctions are curbing the flow of Tehran's oil to its biggest customers in Asia.
Insurers are showing growing reluctance to cover tankers carrying Iranian oil and a senior official at a unit of Chinese refiner Sinopec Corp said it was increasingly wary of crude from Iran due to the supply threat posed by sanctions.
The United States and European Union have tightened sanctions on Iran's oil trade as they seek to reduce the flow of petrodollars and force Tehran to halt a nuclear program the West suspects is intended to produce weapons.
"Iranian crude currently is a rather sensitive subject," Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemicals Chief Financial Officer Ye Guohua told reporters at an earnings briefing. "This year we will continue to be cautious about Iranian crude imports."
China, India, Japan and South Korea are the four biggest buyers of Iranian crude in Asia, and all of them have cut imports. The sanctions are making it hard for refiners who want to continue importing to find shippers, insurers to underwrite trade and banks to clear payments.
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
Originally posted by Grifter81
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
No, NATO is an organisation borne out of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.
If the USA enters Iran and Russia attack then the rest of NATO will be forced to intervene. We are all allies after all.
My point is, we don't even talk about the US going to war anymore. We go to war under the guise of Nato.. Smoke screens.
There's a reason "Nato" sounds like some kind of band of heroes..
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Xcathdra
Personally, I'm thinking Russia is the real wild card. Your right about the base on Russian Fed. territory tying in for the Northern supply lines into Afghanistan. Russia has no love loss whatever for that country and I think it's as much a joy in helping us hurt them as it is anything else. Putin also threatened those supply lines as I recall. Remember back when the Pakistani's shut down the pass over their border post being shot up? Putin had made rumbling then that represent a bell he can't unring in my mind.
The thing is, you are right and that IS the problem about Russia moving now or never. Iran is in the same boat as far the Jihadi's around the region. For several different groups right now, America is weaker than it's really ever been for international relations on principles. We'll probably never be this weak again. So, it IS now or never on some things and some of these players may be the NOW type, is my concern.
China is no wild card in my mind. They have no interest and nothing to gain in starting anything. That being said, if something starts on a large scale anyhow, they won't let the opportunities slide by, either. A United States heavily engaged in a fight we aren't automatically winning in the Middle East and Central Asia can't very well cover Taiwan, for instance. China, in my opinion, will just sit off to the side and be the dangerous opportunist, waiting for others to act or not.
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
Originally posted by Grifter81
reply to post by My.mind.is.mine
I see your point. The fact is (right or wrong) most of the West want to preserve their way of life. We have similar ideals and will all fight for them if needed.
NATO world police to the rescue .
Get the hell outta here... This has nothing to do with "preserving your way of life" while the US is becoming a POLICE STATE.
If "preserving your way of life" is what NDAA is for, and the patriot act then your way of life sucks.
Nato is nothing but a money hungry crime syndicate. Quote me.