Talk:Jundallah

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[1] cites Jundallah attacked the Revolution Guard of Iran near the Afghan border by exploding a bus near a patrol.

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[edit] missing reference

At the end of "Dr Arshad Waheed had close links to him and were extending help by all means, the police spokesman added.[8]" the reference is clearly missing something - it seems to refer to another reference, but it's unclear which one (maybe from another article?). Boud 20:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stratfor reference, but will presumably go subscription-only in the future

This is an interesting reference, but mostly just says everything is consistent with US support for Jundalllah: http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=286820&selected=Analyses and it's internal link "US connections" points to a subscription-only article - my guess is it's subscription-only because it's old, in which case we had better not use this article since it will become non-accessible. Boud 23:11, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] leader's name - sketch pad of different westernised spellings

i'm just collecting different versions of the leader's name in latin spelling that have been used so far in the article or in sources. If/when someone creates the article, they'll need to be redirected. Please update this list as necessary, or add comments if you think you know which one would be best. See Iranian names and Arabic names for general hints on West Asian names and the differences with typical European naming conventions - Baloch names probably are closer to Iranian and/or Arabic style than European. The Arabic names article is quite detailed in explaining things. Boud 23:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wha?

OK, I'm laughing a little right now. Must..try...to...steady...hands. OK. Question: What's the problem with this paragraph about the ABC report asserting ties between the US government and Jundallah: "The report cited unidentified officials and provided no credible evidence to back the claims. Fars News Agency reports that the United States government is involved in Jundullah terrorists acts.[7] On April 2, 2007, Abdul Malik Rigi, the head of the Iranian branch, appeared on Voice of America, the official broadcasting service of the United States government, which identified Rigi as "the leader of popular Iranian resistance movement". This incident resulted in public condemnation by Iranian-American communities in the U.S.[8][9][10][11]"

Answer: Well, first of all, slapping down an ABC report as providing "no credible evidence" is an evaluative judgment that doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, but beyond that: how can there be any question of credible links between Jundallah and the US government when a prominent leader of Jundallah appears on Voice of America radio? Can someone explain that to me? I mean, Jesus, the Iranians are pointing to that and saying "DUH!" MarkB2 01:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amusing

It is amusing that this article pushes the POV that Jundallah is both Al-Qaeda and US-backed, a view that is only held by the Iranian regime and Wikipedia.--▓▒░الأهواز ★ Al-Ahwaz░▒▓ 12:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed a section

I removed the following text:

However, that information has been subjected to caution, since its source, Alexis Debat, a consultant for ABC News since six years, and writer at The National Interest, has been revealed as having made two bogus interviews, one of Barrack Obama and another of Alan Greenspan, and of having faked a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University [1] [2][3]. Debat was forced to resign both from ABC News and from The National Interest [1].

The citations given do not say that the factual accuracy of the story mentioned has been questioned because of the reporters other controversies. They simply state the existence of those controversies. Linking the two together is Original Research. It is also a quite blatant character attack on a critic of the United States government, so could be considered POV. On the basis of this I have removed it. Damburger 13:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)