The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
April 6, 2012

Hersh: U.S. Trained Iranian "Terrorist" Group in Nevada 
--------------------------------------------------------



Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed the U.S. Joint
Special Operations Command has trained operatives from an Iranian
opposition group at a secret site in Nevada. Writing in The New Yorker,
Hersh reports JSOC began training the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, in
2005, even though the group is listed as a foreign terrorist
organization by the State Department. The training included intercepting
communications, cryptography, weaponry and small unit tactics. The
training is said to have ended before President Obama took office. Last
month, NBC reported members of the MEK have been involved in the
assassinations of five Iranian nuclear scientists.



.