The CIA really took one on the nose with the attack in Afghanistan by a Jordanian double agent. I have a sneaking suspicion that the CIA is going to be quite intent on exacting revenge for this for a very long time. The New York Times says that the double agent was brought to Afghanistan to help hunt down Ayman al-Zawahiri. Notice that they don’t mention bin-Laden. Could this be another subtle reminder than Mr. bin-Laden may no longer be among the living?
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Yep. The Bogeyman has been dead since 2001/early 2002.
The recent killing of the CIA agents in Afghanistan by a so called double agent points out the fact that America has “children” playing at war. I lived through a real war, World War II and there were many lessons learned during that conflict that have been forgotten since then. One lesson that was drilled into personnel on all levels was during wartime, YOU DO NOT ASSEMBLE ALL OF YOUR KEY PEOPLE IN ONE PLACE AT THE SAME TIME! Evidently these brave man and women of the agency were not taught this important lesson.
The cold hard factual reasoning behind this rule is that in the event the site is attacked YOU WILL NOT LOSE the expertise of people most knowledgeable on the subject. Intelligence gathered during World War II would be filtered and evaluated as it flowed up to the most senior personnel or General Staff. Never, never,never would an intelligence source be given access to ALL of THE SENIOR PEOPLE at ANYTIME, regardless of his/her references. This procedure was never violated and in retrospect to the past events in Afghanistan it is easy to see why.
As a Jordanian, it is easy to see how the bomber was able to fool his fellow countryman who was a high ranking Jordanian intelligence officer and the “handler” for the so called double agent. But it is astounding that he was able to so easily sucker all of those seven seasoned American CIA officers with his call for an immediate urgent meeting with all of the high level CIA personnel.
I would strongly suggest that the CIA training personnel go back and review the tested and certified material in the training archives of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of World War II vintage, because “what is old is new again”.
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Once again the boogeyman strikes: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He himself was tortured in (CIA precursor) Jordanian jail, sentenced and found quilty of terror acts. Apparently fought with Afghan mujadeen against the Soviets.
In Zarqawi’s home town, family talk with pride about their heroic cousin
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Zarqawi was little more than a small-time thug-and-Al-Qa`eda-reject who committed a few, mostly failed, small-time bombings – until, that is, the Americans elevated him to star status by creating the myth of Zarqawi, The One-legged Über-Terrorist Al Qa`eda Chief of Mission in Iraq who can be in three places at once, and who miraculously hobbled completely undetected by the U.S. military’s crack intelligence with mortal abdominal wounds (heroically American-inflicted, of course) on his one leg across the entire width of Iraq into Iran where he sought and received sanctuary, succor, and medical treatment for his wounds.
Oh, and did I mention that this Zarqawi who was received and treated so lovingly by Iran is the same Zarqawi who regularly spewed some of the most bitterly vicious and bloodthirsty anti-Shi`a venom ever heard on this earth?
Ah, and let us also not forget the legendary and oh, so loving brotherhood established between Zarqawi and Radical Anti-American Shee ite Cleric Muqtada Sadr(TM) so enthusiastically reported by the mainstream media on behalf of the American
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Making the case for the Iraq War: Just ask VP Cheney. In the Jordanian analysis there was no link, but Douglas Feith, an Israeli shill, knew better. When the invasion began in 2003, Zarqawi was located in Iraq, with Ansar al-Islam. Very special was the ricin threat, used by Powell, Bush and Blair. Zarqawi-Chechen-Pankisi ricin network. Btw, today we must appreciate policy is not in the hands of these criminals.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Who takes the bloody nose for this, I wonder:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/25892
The Taliban suicide attack that killed a group of CIA agents in Afghanistan on a base that was directing US drone aircraft used to attack Taliban leaders was big news in the US over the past week, with the airwaves and front pages filled with sympathetic stories referring to the fact that the female station chief, who was among those killed, was the “mother of three children.”
But the apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by a US-led group of troops, was pretty much blacked out in the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed, many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and handcuffed.
Kabul demands foreign ‘killers’ handed over
Mercenaries on a sanctioned mission! This will get even uglier.
There is an interesting paragraph in Juan Cole’s coverage of this event and the misguided raids and airstrikes that should give us pause about knee-jerk reactions to events in Afghanistan:
Did you see that Curveball coming?
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More like a kick in the crotch I would say.
There is a long history of assets going rogue on us. The neutralist coup led by Kong Le in Laos springs immediately to mind. He claimed at the time that having worked with US intelligence and military he couldnt believe they hardly understood the nuances of language, the culture and laways looked at the locals as second class and didnt even drink the same water.
I seriously doubt a muslim asset working for the CIA (maybe) would have found things any better and probably worse. It is the culture of the organization that needs looking at not how one rogue infiltrated it.
Lessons that are never learned…..
No doubnt the CIA will seek revenge and anything else to try and direct attention away from the real issues
The bottom line? They shouldn’t have been where they have no business being doing things they have no business doing. That kind of thing never leads to good ends.
Exactly. Now when will the kidnappers be handed over to the Italian authorities after commiting crimes on Italian (ally) soil?
I imagine the double agent had done his homework, having been taught by “the best of the best”.
I`d say he knew they would look to gain serious marbles on their resume, if they produced Zawahiri.
He played them like a banjo, on the porch in deliverance.
The CIA know very well what “kind” of people they`re dealing with.
Although It`s a little late now for those agents, the lesson to be learned will not be through revenge for their fallen comrades, but for a little introspection into the past methods that lead to this.
What have they been thinking,… that it wasn`t going to happen.
Major Fail.
See my response to Observer393 above.
My favorite rumor is that bin Laden has been living in an uncle’s basement in Riyadh for a decade.