You are still confused, shorty.
You originally were probably mostly referring to (mostly Kurdish, but with some new Arab members) Islamic terrorist group Ansar al-Islam (which mostly attacks their Kurdish secular political opponents....) One reference to them:
commondreams.org
Ansar al-Islam [aka Ansar al-Sunnah], is Sunni & founded by the Kurdish cleric Mullah Krekar, (and once accused by the US government of being a 'tool' of Saddam), was also based out of the 'no-fly zone' US protected Kurdish area of northern Iraq, an area beyond the control of Saddam's government... and which launched attacks inside Iraq against him upon occasion, as well as against Kurdish opponents. See:
globalresearch.ca
But, you could have been referring to the Kurdish terrorist organization Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, PJAK, or PEJAK) I believe... who have kept themselves busy attacking inside Iran.
Last November Seymour Hersch wrote about them:
In the past six months, Israel and the United States have also been working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan. The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran." The government consultant said that Israel is giving the Kurdish group "equipment and training." The group has also been given "a list of targets inside Iran of interest to the U.S."
PJAK's ideology is democratic liberalism and traces its origin to non-violent student movements. It is considerably less radical than the PKK, but its leader, Haji Ahmad, is a member of Kongra-Gel (formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK). The PJAK is listed as a terrorist group by the American government. It is reported that the PJAK killed 120 Iranian security forces members in 2005 alone.
newyorker.com
Now, the LARGEST and best known (and possibly most radical) of the Kurdish terrorist organizations is the PKK (aka 'Kurdistan Worker's Party'), & also the TAK (The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons), which are *different* Kurdish terrorist organizations and which operate mostly against Turkey in their desire for an expanded Kurdish nation....
Numerous others receiving US support
Pol/Econ Bush's Terrorist Allies
Sunday, 08 April 2007
Garrett Johnson
bitsofnews.com
...On Friday the big news was a Defense Department report that showed that Saddam Hussein's regime wasn't cooperating with any al-Qaeda terrorist group before the 2003 invasion.
What is ironic, and almost completely ignored, is that just a few days before ABC News did a story showing that the Bush Administration was currently cooperating with an al-Qaeda terrorist group.
The US government has been secretly supporting a Pakistani militant group that has staged a series of deadly attacks against Iran, ABC News reported, citing unnamed US and Pakistani intelligence sources.
Jundullah, which claims that Iran's Shiite regime is oppressing its Baluchi minority, has claimed responsibility for bombings, kidnappings, and televised beheadings that have killed more than a dozen Iranian troops and officials. In February the group said it carried out a car-bomb attack targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Zahedan, the provincial capital in southeastern Iran, killing 11. Jundullah's leader Mr. Regi, who founded the group in 2003 at the age of 23, has – according to ABC – admitted to personally executing captured Iranian soldiers.
According to Tariq Jamil, chief of the Karachi police, "Jundullah has close ties with Al-Qaeda."
What is probably the most interesting about this link is not that the Bush Administration is supporting an anti-Iran terrorist group that is closely connected to al-Qaeda. It's that the Bush Administration is supporting a terrorist group that is anti-Pakistan and anti-American.
The group hit the headlines after a daring attack last month on the motorcade of Karachi's Corps Commander. The general narrowly escaped death, but 11 people, including eight soldiers were killed. It was the most serious terrorist action targeting the military since the two failed assassination attempts on President Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December last year. Jundullah has also been involved in attacks on rangers, police stations, as well as the twin car bombings outside the Pakistan-US Cultural Center last month.
You can't tell the players without a program.
Of course supporting terrorism is not something that is new to the Bush Administration, nor American foreign policy. Just last year it was revealed that another terrorist group called the MEK (Mujahedeen-e Khalq) was being used by the DoD to attack Iran.
One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.
One former counterintelligence official, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information, describes the Pentagon as pushing MEK shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The drive to use the insurgent group was said to have been advanced by the Pentagon under the influence of the Vice President’s office and opposed by the State Department, National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice.
If you will recall, the MEK was one of the original backers of the Islamic Revolution in Iran whose ideology is a weird mix of fundamentalist Islamism, feminism, and Marxism. They actively supported the 1979 embassy occupation in Tehran and had conducted several assassinations against U.S. civilians working in Iran during the 1970's. The MEK was chased out of Iran in the 1980's, when thousands (perhaps tens of thousands) were simply executed by the Iranian government. The MEK joined with Saddam's Iraqi government shortly before the 1988 massacre, and assisted in crushing the Shia revolt in 1991. The MEK is our leading source of information about Iran's alleged "nuclear weapons program".
The MEK is currently lobbying to have it taken of the list of terrorist organizations, and it has friends in both the Bush Administration and in Congress.
Reps. Bob Filner, D-Calif., Tom Tancredo, R-Col., Ted Poe, R-Texas, Dennis Moore, R-Kan., and staffers for Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, and James Talent, R-Mo., spoke to MEK supporters at a convention hall just four blocks from the White House.
The MEK has been listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department since 1997, but some in Congress and close to the Administration want the group to be removed from the terrorist list. Even President Bush has called the MEK a "dissident group."
Of course that is only two of the terrorist groups fighting the Iranian government that the Bush Administration supports....
bitsofnews.com
The Enemy of My Enemy of My Enemy Is My What?What to do about the Iranian terrorist group that is helping Saddam, and helping us.
By Michael Crowley
Posted Friday, March 21, 2003, at 1:32 PM ET
(The National Liberation Army. The NLA is a well-trained brigade of perhaps 15,000 men outfitted with heavy artillery, rockets, and tanks, a unit of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK). Its troops ...have moved into Kurdish areas in northern Iraq.
slate.com
Yet another:
In the far northeast corner of Iraq (in 'Kurdish territories') armed Iranian exiles are training to overthrow the government in Tehran.
John Cookson visited members of the outlawed left-wing Kurdish-Iranian Komala group Komala, otherwise known as the Revolutionary Toilers of Iran, was founded in 1969, and is affiliated to the Communist party of Iran but has softened its left-wing stance in recent years....
english.aljazeera.net
Pejak terrorist group claims "full Western support":
TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Head of Pejak terrorist group said he has good relations with U.S. and German governments and they know everything about the group, it was reported Wednesday.
Abdel Rahman Haj-Ahmedi who lives in Cologne told German ARD television network that he directs Pejak from Germany.
"Big powers help our military stations and U.S. Army generals completely overlook our activities," he added.
Haj-Ahmedi pointed out that some U.S. generals even visit Pejak's military camps and have good ties with the group.
Haj-Ahmadi in a similar interview with the Kurdish newspaper Media had acknowledged that some U.S. senators and generals had met with Pejak leaders in Iraq's Qandil.
tehrantimes.com
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan claimed to support the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq
topix.net
... Six years on, evidence has begun to emerge that President Bush's administration may be funding one of the terrorist groups it promised to defeat — a group, moreover, reported to have been once commanded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the architect of the September 11, 2001, bombings that sparked off the global war on terror.
Early this month, ABC News journalists Brian Ross and Christopher Isham broke the news that the U.S. was funding Islamist terror group Jundullah — or Allah's Brigade — to carry out strikes against Iran.
hindu.com
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Report: U.S. Sponsoring Kurdish Guerilla Attacks Inside Iran
We speak with independent journalist Reese Erlich about his report on Iranian Kurdish guerillas based among their Kurdish bretheren in northern Iraq. Erlich writes, "Kurdish and American sources say the United States has been supporting guerilla raids against Iran, channeling the money through organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan."
democracynow.org
Center for Policing Terrorism
cpt-mi.org
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
tkb.org
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