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http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20
11/12/08/9293815-hidden-in-plain-sight-
inside-a-secret-cia-prison
Was lange vermutet wurde, hat sich jetzt offenbar bestätigt: Die CIA hat in Osteuropa, konkret im rumänischen Bukarest, ein geheimes Gefängnis betrieben, in dem Terrorverdächtige verhört und gefoltert wurden. "For years, the CIA used a government building - codenamed 'Bright Light' - as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. There it held al-Qaida operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and others in a basement prison before they were ultimately transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006, according to former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the location and inner workings of the prison. The existence of a CIA prison in Romania has been widely reported, but its location has never been made public. The Associated Press and German public television ARD located the former prison and learned details of the facility where harsh interrogation tactics were used. ARD's program on the CIA prison is set to air Thursday." |
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2
011/12/05/america-s-shadow-state-in-pak
istan.html
Die CIA habe wegen des Misstrauens gegenüber der pakistanischen Führung ein eigenes Spionagenetzwerk in Pakistan errichtet, zu dem auch eine Abteilung innerhalb des Geheimdienstes ISI gehöre, berichtet Eli Lake in diesem Exklusivbeitrag. "Within the ISI, America's most reliable ally has been the spy service's division known as the T Wing. It was created largely from scratch in 2006 and 2007, after the Americans mostly gave up trying to work with the ISI's uncooperative leadership. (...) It's been necessary to pick and choose which elements of Pakistan's security apparatus America should engage with, says Mark Lowenthal, a former House Intelligence Committee staff director and former CIA assistant director for analysis. 'We do this because of the nature of the Pakistani state,' he says. 'If it was a coherent government, then when we made a deal with the president or the prime minister, you would know as the orders come down the line they would be obeyed.'" |
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09
/violent-muslim-hysteria/
Nach der Veröffentlichung vertraulicher FBI-Dokumente bestätigt Kris Alexander aus eigener Erfahrung, dass die US-Behörde in ihren Anti-Terrorismus-Kursen seit den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 immer wieder vor der grundsätzlichen Gefährlichkeit von Muslimen gewarnt habe. "The last time I got a full dose of it was at a military school in the summer of 2010. The schoolhouse brought in a retired FBI agent to teach us about terrorism. He trotted out a presentation similar to the one in Spencer's story. Things got ugly in a hurry. The retired agent was teaching to a class of mid-career officers many of whom, like me, had been advisors to either the Iraqi or Afghan military. We'd all grown beyond the hype and challenged him on every point. At one point, he was so mad that it looked like he was going to storm out of the room. It was fun while it lasted and made for some fun conversation over beers that night."
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09
/fbi-muslims-radical/
Das FBI lehrt seine Agenten in Antiterrorismus-Kursen offenbar, dass Muslime generell zu Gewalttätigkeit und Radikalisierung neigen. Spencer Ackerman hat Einblick in entsprechende Kursmaterialien erhalten und schreibt: "The FBI isn't just treading on thin legal ice by portraying ordinary, observant Americans as terrorists-in-waiting, former counterterrorism agents say. It's also playing into al-Qaida's hands. Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable from political violence is exactly the narrative al-Qaida spins - as is the related idea that America and Islam are necessarily in conflict. That's why FBI whistleblowers provided Danger Room with these materials."
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia
/MI07Df01.html
Der aus Sicht der US-Regierung überaus erfolgreiche Drohnenkrieg gegen Extremisten in aller Welt habe innerhalb der CIA eine Dynamik ausgelöst, die eine Abkehr von diesem Instrument erschweren würde, schreibt Gareth Porter. "The shift in the CIA mission's has been reflected in the spectacular growth of its Counter-terrorism Center (CTC) from 300 employees in September 2001 to about 2,000 people today - 10% of the agency's entire workforce, according to the Post. The agency's analytical branch, which had been previously devoted entirely to providing intelligence assessments for policymakers, has been profoundly affected. More than one-third of the personnel in the agency's analytical branch are now engaged wholly or primarily in providing support to CIA operations, according to senior agency officials cited by the Post. And nearly two-thirds of those are analyzing data used by CTC drone war staff to make decisions on targeting." |
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09
/cia-killing-machine/
Die CIA habe sich zehn Jahre nach 9/11 zu einer
"Tötungsmaschine" gewandelt, schreibt Spencer Ackerman. Die verdeckten Drohnenangriffe des Geheimdienstes gehörten
zu den wichtigsten Instrumenten der US-Regierung im Kampf
gegen den internationalen Terrorismus. "CIA's fleet of 30
Predators and Reapers - the Post gives the total - get the
most attention, and understandably so. But it's easy to
forget that the drones are a lagging indicator. Every
intelligence operation, even the ones that go wrong and
kill civilians, is the result of the CIA's cultivation of a
network of spies it didn't possess back during Tenet's
testimony. Drone strikes need spotters; the CIA has them in
a group of Pashtun informants who cross the Afghanistan-
Pakistan border with news of militant activity. It's never
been publicly acknowledged. But without that network, it's
impossible to understand the massive and sustained rise in
drone strikes." |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline
/iraq-war-on-terror/topsecretamerica/to
p-cia-official-obama-changed-virtually-
none-of-bushs-controversial-programs/
Der TV-Sender "PBS" hat anlässlich des 10. Jahrestages von
9/11 einen Blick auf die kontroversen Geheimdienstprogramme
geworfen, die nach den Anschlägen von George W. Bush
bewilligt wurden. Ein früherer CIA-Mitarbeiter gibt im
Interview an, dass US-Präsident Obama kaum etwas an den
Programmen geändert habe. "As a presidential candidate,
Barack Obama pledged 'a top to bottom review of the threats
we face and our abilities to confront them.' He promised a
sweeping overhaul of the Bush administration's war on
terror, which he criticized for compromising American
values. But FRONTLINE has learned from a former high-
ranking CIA official that even before he took office,
Obama's team 'signaled' they had no intention of rolling
back secret programs begun under the Bush administration." |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/au
g/28/arab-spring-intelligence-disaster-
scheuer
Für die westlichen Geheimdienste sei der "Arabische
Frühling" eine nachrichtendienstliche "Katastrophe", meint
der frühere CIA-Mitarbeiter Michael Scheuer. "Speaking at
the Edinburgh international book festival, Michael Scheuer
said: 'The help we were getting from the Egyptian
intelligence service, less so from the Tunisians but
certainly from the Libyans and Lebanese, has dried up -
either because of resentment at our governments stabbing
their political leaders in the back, or because those who
worked for the services have taken off in fear of being
incarcerated or worse.'" |
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07
/fbi-islam-101-guide/
Bis vor kurzem habe das FBI seinen Mitarbeitern einen eher fragwürdigen Ratgeber zur Vermittlung von Kenntnissen über Muslime auf den Weg gegeben, berichtet Spencer Ackerman. "All this is revealed in a PowerPoint presentation by the FBI's Law Enforcement Communications Unit (.pdf), which trains new Bureau recruits. (...) Other slides paint Islam in a less malicious light, and one urges 'respectful liaison' as a 'proactive approach' to engaging Muslims. But even those exhibit what one American Muslim civil rights leader calls 'the understanding of a third grader, and even then, a badly misinformed third grader.' (...) 'Based on this presentation, it is easy to see why so many in law enforcement and the FBI view American Muslims with ignorance and suspicion,' says Farhana Khera, the executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal aid group."
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http://www.thenation.com/article/161936
/cias-secret-sites-somalia
Jeremy Scahill zufolge betreibt die CIA in Somalia geheime
Gefängnisse, um ungestört Verdächtige verhören zu
können. "The CIA presence in Mogadishu is part of
Washington's intensifying counterterrorism focus on
Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special
Operations forces, drone attacks and expanded surveillance
operations. (...) According to well-connected Somali sources,
the CIA is reluctant to deal directly with Somali political
leaders, who are regarded by US officials as corrupt and
untrustworthy. Instead, the United States has Somali
intelligence agents on its payroll. Somali sources with
knowledge of the program described the agents as lining up
to receive $200 monthly cash payments from Americans." |
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/
07/05/us_bin_laden_s_hunter/index.html
Adam Goldman und Matt Apuzzo stellen den CIA-Beamten vor,
der zehn Jahre eine führende Rolle bei der Jagd nach Osama
bin Laden gespielt habe. "The analyst was the first to put
in writing last summer that the CIA might have a legitimate
lead on finding bin Laden. He oversaw the collection of
clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in
Abbottabad, Pakistan. His was among the most confident
voices telling Obama that bin Laden was probably behind
those walls. The CIA will not permit him to speak with
reporters. But interviews with former and current U.S.
intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence
and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism
success in the history of the CIA." |
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http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/digitaz/arti
kel/?ressort=ku&dig=2011%2F09%2F21%2Fa0
125&cHash=c59ca58a16
Simon Rothöhler berichtet von der New Yorker Ausstellung "September 11" im "Museum of Modern Art". "Die Gruppenausstellung heißt schlicht 'September 11' und fragt nach dem Verhältnis, das die Kunst zum Ereigniskomplex '9/11' unterhält. PS1-Kurator Peter Eleey hat vor allem Arbeiten versammelt, die sich allein schon deshalb nicht unmittelbar auf den Terror des 11. September beziehen können, weil sie älteren Datums sind."
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10. Februar 2012
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