When did the rise of militant Islam really begin in the Middle East Region?
~In 1953, Mohammad Mosaddeq was the democratically elected reform Prime Minister of Iran. To pay for things like hospitals, schools, the education and health care of his people and foolishness like that, he wanted a fair price for the oil being siphoned from his country by British and US oil conglomerates. The British had already blown a coup attempt so they asked Ike for an assist. Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. was put in charge of Operation Ajax and Mosaddeq was deposed. CIA put Shah Reza Pahlavi back on the Peacock throne. Knowing what a corrupt, bloodthirsty tyrant the Shah was, CIA then created, organized, trained and assisted the Shah’s secret police, SAVAT to keep him in power. CIA also taught SAVAT some of their nifty torture techniques, but Dan Mitrione had already been killed for his exploits in Uruguay so they didn’t get the really good stuff. In 1963, another reform government was implementing similar programs in Iraq. CIA handpicked Saddam Hussein and 5 others to assassinate Abd a
