Behind the Cheney Meeting With Musharraf:Is the White House Running Another `Secret Contra' War Against Iran With Stolen Funds?
Several well-placed Washington sources have reported that, contrary to published reports on Vice President Cheney's meetings in Pakistan with President Musharraf, the primary topic of discussion was not the imminent NATO military actions against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan, which has become a safe-haven for the Afghani insurgents. That situation was discussed, but the primary topic, according to the sources, was the intensification of covert military operations inside Iran.
According to the sources, such military operations have intensified in recent weeks, and involve Baluchi, Azeri and Kurdish "contras," working with Pentagon special operations units, and contractors. According to one account, some of the American-sponsored black operations are being run in conjunction with Afghan drug lords, who cross the border between Afghanistan and Iran regularly, and are now providing cover for American clandestine operatives. One source reported that some senior CIA officials are alarmed at this program, which they see as a deja vu of the 1980s Iran-Contra fiasco, and the Afghansi operations that spawned the Al Qaeda and other "Salafi" terror cells. They predict "more 911 attacks" as the result of this deluded policy.
The sources also emphasized that there are two primary sources of funding for this covert campaign: The Saudis are putting up sizeable amounts of cash--handled through Prince Bandar, the National Security Advisor to King Abdullah. And millions of dollars, which were sent by the planeload to Iraq during the final weeks of the Coalition Provisional Authority and apparently "disappeared," were actually stashed away for use in these clandestine programs, being run out of the White House. In effect, the Bush-Cheney White House, these sources warned, is engaged in outright criminal activity, carrying out covert military operations behind the back of Congress, and with stolen funds.
