tagged w/ Vanguard : America's Secret War in Iran
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Is the U.S. already at war with Iran? In "America's Secret War in Iran," Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains, she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women, and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has become the frontline of the U.S.'s secret war with Iran.Is the U.S. already at war with Iran? In "America's Secret War in Iran," Vanguard... more
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A new ad campaign for Current TV's original documentary series "Vanguard" (current.com/vanguard) has been banned in Rome.
One of the banned ads was for "America's Secret War" (http://current.com/items/89438469/la_guerra_segreta_all_iran.htm). And the other was for an investigation into a mafia hit on a Catholic priest.
Tommaso Tessarolo, General Manager of Current Italy, is fighting the censorship. Below is a translated letter that Tommaso wrote and posted to the facebook group "Censored by the City of Rome" (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128786715074):
"I want you to know how astonishing and worrying has been the decision of the Commune ofRome to CENSOR the promotional campaign set for the Subway system(and not for the bus system as declared by ATAC – Rome’s Public Transportation).
Why is it that in Milan this campaign was calmly accepted, but in Rome it was brutally censored? The answer is likely in two keywords: Bible and Vatican. This last one we know is closer to Rome than to Milan. Too bad that that those who have censored our campaign haven’t even taken the time to understand what it referred to. It’s the premiere of our VANGUARD series, of which one episode is about a priest who was killed by the mafia.
Are these the messages that should be censored you think?
Or perhaps the censorship’s goal is to attack the only channel in Italy that has real investigative journalism.
We firmly believe that people are tired. Tired of the situation in which decades of horrible politics have kept us back, tired of being lied to, tired of television channels that do everything except inform.
We are convinced that these messages (this campaign) should be encouraged and applauded, NOT CENSORED. From March 9 on CURRENT we will step on the accelerator even more, we will go out on the field to report every day, because we are convinced that to change this world, a world we many times dislike, we have to understand it. And to fully understand it, first someone has to have the courage to tell it like it is. WE WANT TO HAVE THIS COURAGE. We want to share it and to continue going forward with our TV and online project, with the PARTICIPATION of everyone who wants to join us in this battle.
This censorship might be the first of many. And that’s why it’s important for this group to exist as an active watchdog against those who want to prevent the truth from being told."
Thanks!
Tommaso Tessarolo
General Manager
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BAGHDAD (AFP)--Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged "senior" Iranian commando from the elite Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force at Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
The military said they suspected the man of "involvement in facilitating Iranian weapons shipments into Iraq" under the cover of working for an organization involved in the restoration of Iraqi religious sites.
The man is alleged to have used the organization as a front in order to bring weapons into Iraq concealed in shipments of building materials, the military said in a statement released late Tuesday.
The U.S. military has long accused Iran's Quds Force of arming, training and funding Iraqi militiamen to stoke the sectarian violence that has convulsed the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, charges Tehran has denied.
The statement also said the man was carrying an "unspecified amount" of cocaine.
The arrest came as Iraq's parliament was mulling a wide-ranging security pact with the U.S. that would require all U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, a pact that Iran has vehemently opposed.BAGHDAD (AFP)--Iraqi security forces have arrested an alleged "senior" Iranian... more
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Swampland, Time magazine's political blog, featured ASW.
Off The Trail: A Proxy War With Iran?Swampland, Time magazine's political blog, featured ASW.
Off The Trail: A Proxy War... more
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Is the US already at war with Iran?
In "America's Secret War", Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels
to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is
supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains,
she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly
raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women,
and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has
become the frontline of the US's secret war with Iran.
***Check out "America's Secret War" on Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 10
p.m. on Current TV.***Is the US already at war with Iran?
In "America's Secret War", Vanguard... more
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The new season of the "Vanguard" weekly series begins on Oct. 22 with this
little question: Is the US already at war with Iran?
View the full piece:
http://current.com/items/89438469_america_s_secret_war
In "America's Secret War", Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels
to the Iraq-Iran border to investigate claims that the United States is
supporting militant groups that are attacking Iran. In the rugged Qandil mountains,
she meets with up with anti-Iranian guerillas who have been launching deadly
raids against the Islamic Republic. A good percentage of the fighters are women,
and Mariana accompanies a small group of them through what many believe has
become the frontline of the US's secret war with Iran.
***Check out "America's Secret War" on Wednesday, March 4 at 10
p.m. on Current TV.***The new season of the "Vanguard" weekly series begins on Oct. 22 with this
little... more
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This is an excerpt from an interview with Ibrahim Alizadeh about where he says Komala gets its funding.This is an excerpt from an interview with Ibrahim Alizadeh about where he says Komala... more
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The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
by Seymour M. Hersh
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A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran’s borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq.
Dozens of Iranian officials, members of the security forces and insurgents belonging to Kurdish, Arab Iranian and Baluch groups have died in the fighting in recent years. It now appears to be heating up once again after an unusually cold and snowy winter.
In recent weeks, Iranians have begun the now-routine bombardment of suspected rebel Iranian Kurd positions in northern Iraq, and guerrillas have claimed incursions into northwestern Iran.A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran’s borders may be impelling... more
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WASHINGTON: They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the first class of the day in firing Kalashnikov rifles.
Over the next eight hours, they practice using bazookas or laying roadside bombs, with a break for lunch and mandatory religious instruction.
There is free time in the evening to watch television or play Ping-Pong.
Lights out at 11 p.m.
Such is a typical day at a dusty military base outside Tehran, where for the past several years members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah operatives have trained Iraqi Shiites to launch attacks against American forces in Iraq, according to accounts given to American interrogators by captured Iraqi fighters.
American officials have long cited Iranian training and weapons as reasons for the lethality of attacks by Shiite fighters in Iraq. Iranian officials deny that such training takes place.
Now, more than 80 pages of newly declassified intelligence documents for the first time describe in detail an elaborate network used by Iraqis to gain entry into Iran and train under Iranian supervision. WASHINGTON: They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the... more
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There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. But the real question may be whether the U.S. and Iran are already at war... a war through proxies.
The Bush administration has long claimed that Tehran is supporting radical Shiite groups who are attacking American troops in Iraq. Recently, we traveled to the Iraq-Iran border for Current's "Vanguard" to investigate claims that the U.S. is supporting its own groups who are attacking Iran.
Our journey took us from the streets of Erbil, the capital of the relatively peaceful and pro-American Kurdish north of Iraq, to the volatile foothills of the Qandil Mountains. Along the way, we talked politics with Iranian bootleggers, drank Johnny Walker with aging communist revolutionaries and even palled around with some terrorists.There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. But the... more
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Yes, there are commercial flights to Iraq. But are you sure you want to go there?
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Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller interviews former CIA operative and Syriana inspiration Robert Baer about his new book, "The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower".Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller interviews former CIA operative and Syriana... more
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