According to Seymour Hersh's latest expose in The New Yorker, in late 2007 the Bush Administration asked Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees (the so-called Gang of Eight) for $400,000,000 to step up covert operations against the Iranian government, and were given the money they requested. The money was going to be used to fund Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups thought to comprise an opposition to the Iranian regime. Robert Baer, a former clandestine C.I.A. intelligence officer, told Hersh what kind of people we are now funding: "The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda. These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelievers — in this case, it's Shiite Iranians. The...
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