Last month, as the corporate media mulched over renewed Pentagon claims Iran is providing deadly IEDs to Iraqi “insurgents,” German television reported the Maoist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan (PKK), has “killed over 200 Iranians,” a handful by way of IED, according to a PKK terrorist quoted by German ARD television (original in German). “Three months ago, by using radio-controlled mines we killed 13 to 14 Iranian soldiers,” Sertan, a “PJAK” terrorist, told the Germans. PJAK “is a cover name, because the organization is dedicated to Abdullah Öcalan, to the boss of the [PKK]. It is forbidden in Europe and America as a terrorist organization,” in fact, the U.S. State Department lists PKK as a terrorist organization.

As Iranian Press TV reported yesterday, the leader of the “Pejak terrorist group says he has good relations with the US and German governments and they know everything about the group.” Abdel Rahman Haj-Ahmedi, who lives in Cologne, told German ARD television: “Big powers help our military stations and American army generals completely overlook our activities.” Moreover, according to Haj-Ahmedi, “some US generals even visit Pejak’s military camps and have good ties with Pejak…. Haj-Ahmadi in a similar interview with the Kurdish newspaper Media had acknowledged that some US senators and generals had met with Pejak leaders in Iraq’s Qandil.” In short, PJAK enjoys full neocon support, as should be expected, never mind PKK’s supposed lunatic Maoist persuasion.

Of course, this “support” should not come as a surprise. In 2004, Seymour Hersh, citing Pentagon and U.S. government sources, reported an Israeli presence in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. At the time, Hersh wrote:

In a series of interviews in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, officials told me that by the end of last year Israel had concluded that the Bush Administration would not be able to bring stability or democracy to Iraq, and that Israel needed other options. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government decided, I was told, to minimize the damage that the war was causing to Israel’s strategic position by expanding its long-standing relationship with Iraq’s Kurds and establishing a significant presence on the ground in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. Several officials depicted Sharon’s decision, which involves a heavy financial commitment, as a potentially reckless move that could create even more chaos and violence as the insurgency in Iraq continues to grow.

Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel’s view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria. Israel feels particularly threatened by Iran, whose position in the region has been strengthened by the war. The Israeli operatives include members of the Mossad, Israel’s clandestine foreign-intelligence service, who work undercover in Kurdistan as businessmen and, in some cases, do not carry Israeli passports.

If we are to believe Hersh, the Israelis simply decided to go off on their own, as they figured the occupation would not “bring stability or democracy to Iraq,” an angle at odds with the agenda, that is to say the exact opposite of what Hersh, or his “sources,” expect us to believe. In fact, the plan is to destabilize, deconstruct, and balkanize Iraq, that is top say carve it up into three distinct pieces based along ethnic and religious lines. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to believe the Pentagon would be left out of the loop, especially the side of the Pentagon to this day dominated by intractable and quite maniac neocons. More likely, the Israelis and the U.S. are collaborating in northern Iraq and directing attacks against Iran through surrogates such as the PKK, or rather its cover PJAK. Iran, after all, is the next target on the “clean break” list.

Don’t count on the corporate media to report any of this. Instead, we are obliged to rely on German television and Iranian state media. Such events may be reported and commented upon here and across the blogosphere, but not by the Pentagon script readers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, et al, “news” organizations long ago folded into the CIA and now serve as the Ministry of Disinformation and Omission for the neocons, who will attack Iran, first by proxy and later by the U.S, military, the latter indeed a “dumb animal” as Kissinger characterized it, at the disposal of “foreign policy,” a realm now under the control of psychopathic neocons bent on reducing the Middle East to a wasteland.