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2005-07-04 Home Front: WoT

Help From France Key In Covert Operations

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-07-04 07:15|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The CIA arranged for an asset to suggest that Mehdi stop in Paris on his way to Reunion to surveil targets.

Hmm, one of the few public pieces of evidence that the CIA has something useful to offer to the WoT.

A background concern for me is how much the French are learning about our operations that will be useful for their spy activities against the U.S.

Posted by Carl in N.H.">Carl in N.H. 2005-07-04 10:01|| 2005-07-04 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Carl in N.H. The CIA uses a technique that is universal to those a-holes, they pay them. That is one thing anyone can be turned with, money. Jihad is fine, but surely allah wouldn't begrudge a man from scoring a little scratch.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-07-04 12:33|| 2005-07-04 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed I hold with make scratch for all, I will have my 25 percentum tho.

Peace Be Upon Me.

Posted by Allah 2005-07-04 15:00|| 2005-07-04 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4 WaPo Francophile Alert
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday

"John E. McLaughlin, the former acting CIA director who retired recently after a 32-year career, described the relationship between the CIA and its French counterparts as "one of the best in the world. What they are willing to contribute is extraordinarily valuable."
The rarely discussed Langley-Paris connection also belies the public portrayal of acrimony between the two countries that erupted over the invasion of Iraq. Within the Bush administration, the discord was amplified by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who has claimed the lead role in the administration's "global war on terrorism" and has sought to give the military more of a part in it.

But even as Rumsfeld was criticizing France in early 2003 for not doing its share in fighting terrorism, his U.S. Special Operations Command was finalizing a secret arrangement to put 200 French special forces under U.S. command in Afghanistan. Beginning in July 2003, its commanders have worked side by side there with U.S. commanders and CIA and National Security Agency representatives."

Posted by Red Dog 2005-07-04 22:23|| 2005-07-04 22:23|| Front Page Top

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