From the Hersh's mouth.

New York Daily News June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29th 2008, 11:17 PM

President Bush oversees a $400 million covert program to destabilize the ruling mullahs in Iran, a new report claims, but military leaders are pushing back against the White House's plans for a first strike against Iran.

Some of the money is being funneled to dissident groups and ethnic minorities, including one with possible Al Qaeda links and another on the State Department's terrorist list, reporter Seymour Hersh claims in the new issue of The New Yorker.

"United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with presidential authorization, since last year," Hersh wrote.

"These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of 'high-value targets' in the President's war on terror, who may be captured or killed."

The White House and CIA declined to comment on the article, which cited anonymous sources in and outside the government.

Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, denied the account of cross-border operations. "I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else," Crocker told CNN's "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer."

"U.S. forces are not operating across the Iran-Iraq border, no."

Hersh, though, told the show that an ambassador would not necessarily be informed of the secret operations.

"Sometimes it's better not to have the ambassador know," Hersh said. "And the other major thing is, we've sent in a special task force that operates out of Afghanistan into Iran."



In a related story, Seymour Hersh reports that the United States has funded a $400
million dollar finding to aid dissident forces in Narnia. "I have recently come into possession of video evidence that the United States is backing the return of the royal family in the person of Prince Caspian who is currently living in exile in San Bernadino. The Bush administration is in cahoots with the royal family of Narnia who are part of the Tri-lateral Commission and are attempting to return Narnia to a royal kingdom instead of the peoples republic that currently is in place. Most of congress does not know of this covert operation and would protest as they would not sanction a war for unicorns."