Thursday, January 13, 2011

As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen,UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots Treasury

As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the UGGs

Sheepskin Cuff Boots Treasury – notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for

Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders has been widely remarked – just

designated the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) a terrorist group, or, more accurately, a group

controlled by the better known Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of Turkey. PJAK, of course, was named by

Seymour Hersh, among others, as a likely beneficiary of alleged UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots covert aid

designed to harass the Islamic Republic two years ago after it claimed responsibility for a number of

deadly attacks against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and other regime targets. Tehran itself has long

claimed that PJAK is supported by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots and Israel. Like the PKK, it is based

in Iraqi Kurdistan.

While designating PJAK a terrorist group is unlikely to have any immediate practical impact on its

operations, it raises the question, as noted by Dr. Elling, whether this marks the first concrete

gesture – or token of good faith – by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots administration toward Iran or

whether this was simply the coincidental fruition of a bureaucratic process that may have been set in

motion by the publication by the New York Times of a front-page article on the relationship between

PJAK and the PKK back in October, 2007. I don’t have a clear answer as yet, but the timing and the

fact that Levey, who is being retained by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots administration in his current

position as Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has strong political instincts

argues in favor of the more purposeful interpretation.

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