Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- BTW, someone from this list sent a report regarding the Mossad and WTC bombings. What was the source? http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001321410,00.html SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15 2001 Terror in America: Ready for war No sex and bad food are recipe for CIA failure FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN WASHINGTON THE Central Intelligence Agency has no effective counter-intelligence operation in Afghanistan, and agents could hope to set eyes on one of Osama bin Laden’s foot soldiers only if he “walked through the door of a US Embassy”, according to a former operative. Reuel Marc Gerecht, who worked on Middle East affairs for the CIA for almost nine years, said that the agency had failed to make any serious effort to infiltrate bin Laden’s organisation.Another operative said that the problem lay in a lack of volunteers for a posting that meant no sex and bad food.In an article written before this week’s attacks, week, Mr Gerecht said that the agency has a “risk-averse, bureaucratic nature” and its “counterterrorism programme in the Middle East and its environs is a myth”. He scoffed at the description by George Tenet, Director of the CIA, of the agency’s counter-terrorism programme as robust and the claim by senior US officials that bin Laden’s organisation was being picked apart limb by limb.A former senior operative in the region is quoted as saying that “the CIA probably doesn’t have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years with sy food and no women in the mountains of Afghanistan. For Christ’s sake, most case officers live in the suburbs of Virginia.” Another case officer said: “Operations that include diarrhoea as a way of life don’t happen.” With the United States on a war footing, there has been a reluctance to break ranks and criticise the intelligence agency for failing to apprehend those involved in this week’s attacks, but the CIA is likely to face intense scrutiny over the coming weeks. Nor is it the first occasion on which intelligence information appears to have been lacking. The agency has been rocked in recent years by the bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen last year. Last month the CIA issued a renewed warning, based on incoming intelligence, that bin Laden was pressing for action against Americans. Asked if the President had full confidence in Mr Tenet, his spokesman said, “Yes, he does.” A CIA spokesman said that the agency was not concerned by reports of senators on Capitol Hill pressing for Mr Tenet to resign. “Our focus is on terrorists — it’s not on critical chatter by anonymous sources,” he said. ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
