US denies allowing Iran rebels to continue operations from Iraq

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When its our buds they are rebels. Everyone else is a terrorist. WTF?

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military roundly denied reports that it was allowing the Iranian armed opposition People's Mujahedeen to mount attacks from Iraq four months after Washington gave orders for its fighters to be disarmed and confined to camp. snip

The Washington Post reported Thursday that Secretary of State Colin Powell had written to Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the past week to complain that the People's Mujahedeen were being still given wide freedom to operate despite being designated by Washington as a terrorist group.

The paper said that, according to administration officials, the Pentagon had allowed the group to retain its weapons, come and go as it pleased and use camp facilities to broadcast propaganda into Iran.

"It's unbelievable," the daily quoted an unnamed State Department official as saying. "It's a pretty cushy arrangement for a terrorist group."

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