Making deals with terrorists

Now that's something we don't do.

A top State Department official criticized the military Tuesday for agreeing to a wartime cease-fire with an Iranian rebel group based in Saddam Hussein's Iraq .

"We shouldn't have been signing a cease-fire with a foreign terrorist organization," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

...The State Department's list of terrorist groups includes the Mujahedeen Khalq...It also has received weapons and support from [Hussein] who allowed the group's guerrillas to operate from eastern Iraq.

...The military signed an April 16 cease-fire with the Mujahedeen Khalq after warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq and bombed Mujahedeen Khalq sites. The group agreed to disarm and was not attacked again.

Pentagon officials have defended the cease-fire decision, saying the military's focus at the time was to defeat Iraq, and American troops could not afford to be fighting another heavily armed group at the same time. article

So, if we cannot afford to fight them, we'll negotiate with them. That's not quite what Bush's machismo tough-guy talk has led us to believe. That's not how he got his funding and support to go blast the crap out of Afghanistan and Iraq. That's not how he gets his funding and support to trample over any other country's affairs and rights.

Not only does he say we will not tolerate terrorists, but we will not tolerate any country who deals with terrorists.

It's good to see somebody hasn't forgotten this. It hardly got any press when it happened.

These guys are in camps, disarmed (although Armitage says he believes they were disarmed only of their major weapons and that they still have sidearms). Why aren't they in Guantanamo? Why isn't the guy from Ohio who was recently convicted of working with al-Qaeda and plotting a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in Guantanamo? Why are the men in Guantanamo there? What's happening to them?

I just realized that I had an earlier article posted on my website a while back about this guy from Ohio. The man's real name is Mohammed Rauf, but he is going by the alias Iyman Faris. Check out this link: A Fate Sealed Under Secrecy.

....or do what you want....you will anyway.