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2006-01-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by ed 2006-01-12 11:15|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Baluchis are Sunni and have been persecuted by the Shia. They have also faced ethnic persecution in Pakland (confiscation of property, destruction of monuments, discrimination in govt service, etc.)

They have also claimed to have kidnapped Iranian soldiers.

Posted by mhw 2006-01-12 12:23|| 2006-01-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#2 And you can bet your bottom dollar that for some time now, the US has been trying very hard to make friends among the Baluchis.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-12 12:35|| 2006-01-12 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 This is another tribal group like the Kurds that has ill-defined boundaries in more than one country. Such a group is very useful when stirring up trouble with troublemakers, especially when they can see what we {US} gave the Kurds as a reward for service. It is seems as though someone has dusted off the old Indian warfare manuals and is rediscovering the utility of setting tribe against tribe, with tangible physical and political rewards for the friendlies being given.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-01-12 12:46|| 2006-01-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 The other day I was wondering if the plane-crash that killed all those Iranian Flags was payback for the assaination attempt on Ahmadinejad. I guess this story puts that theory in the trash.

Hmmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by Chinter Flarong9283 2006-01-12 12:58|| 2006-01-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Imagine if we'd have ensured and independent Kurdistan the Kurds, Baluchi, and Shia Arabs in Iran would have been clamoring for their own states as well. Would have been nice to see.

Probably wouldn't have been well taken by the Turks or Indians or Paks though.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-01-12 13:46|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2006-01-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 All the same... it coulda be some Baluchi sympathizers?
I mean, why would you need such a purging to begin with? Unless he's gone mad and got rid of them for being incompetent, but they were too dangerous to relieve of command?

http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=139473&D=2006-01-10&HC=2

Posted by Anon4021 2006-01-12 14:17|| 2006-01-12 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Aren't Ramzi Yusef and Khalid Sheik Muhammed supposed to be of Baluchi descent?

Posted by Tibor 2006-01-12 14:42|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2006-01-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 The last-before-final stage of the Glorious Revolution is when the competent are replaced by Loyal Henchmen. After which the regime falls because nobody can figure which end of the gun it is out of which the bullets come.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-12 18:37|| 2006-01-12 18:37|| Front Page Top

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