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CIA Bought Foreign Cooperation Against Terrorism, Says Report
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 11-19-2005 | Julian Borger

Posted on 11/18/2005 7:27:43 PM PST by blam

CIA bought foreign cooperation against terrorism, says report

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday November 19, 2005
The Guardian (UK)

The CIA set up a network of secret joint operations centres with two dozen foreign intelligence agencies to hunt down suspected terrorists in the years after September 11 2001, it was reported yesterday.

According to the report in the Washington Post, the cooperation of foreign agencies was bought with hi-tech gadgetry to help them conduct wiretaps and other surveillance, shared intelligence, and occasional personal favours.

In the case of the Indonesian spy chief, Lieutenant General Abdullah Hendropriyono, the CIA arranged for his son to attend the US National War College, despite poor grades, the report alleges, citing four unnamed sources.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: against; bought; cia; cooperation; foreign; report; says; terrorism; terrorists

1 posted on 11/18/2005 7:27:44 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

We've been so naughty, haven't we? Using foreign intelligence agents to capture terrorists. Imagine that!


2 posted on 11/18/2005 7:34:07 PM PST by RTINSC (What, Me Worry?..My company offers French benefits...)
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To: blam

well thank goodness some groups in the CIA know how to get the job done.


3 posted on 11/18/2005 7:35:25 PM PST by oceanview
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To: blam
 
 

According to the report in the Washington Post, the cooperation of foreign agencies was bought with hi-tech gadgetry to help them conduct wiretaps and other surveillance, shared intelligence, and occasional personal favours.

So what's wrong with that?

 

 

4 posted on 11/18/2005 7:35:38 PM PST by HawaiianGecko (Facts are neither debatable nor open to "I have a right to this opinion" nonsense.)
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To: blam

Surely you don't mean to tell me that we were secretly getting other countries to join our coalition? You're not suggesting other countries AREN'T actually too pissed off at us/Bush to work with us, are you?


5 posted on 11/18/2005 7:36:35 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect)
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To: blam

Who the H*** leaked THIS information to the enemy press? Which Bush Administration official will take the blame for treason?


6 posted on 11/18/2005 7:39:34 PM PST by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
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To: RTINSC

called diplomacy?


7 posted on 11/18/2005 7:51:43 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: HawaiianGecko

Nothing. But that never stops them from the insinuation that something underhanded has happened.
I have to wonder if all these leftists, the Euros, the Demos, the Hollyweirdos, ever stop and think about what's in store for them if the Islamics take over. It used to be thought that Buddhism, born in India, was later absorbed by Hinduism. Not quite true. The muslims who invaded the subcontinent had no use for the Hindus with their many gods-seems I read somewhere that Hindu Kush means "Death to Hindus"-but they absolutely loathed the atheistic Buddhists, and massacred them at every opportunity. Just a little food for thought.


8 posted on 11/18/2005 7:55:03 PM PST by syncked
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To: blam

The only reservation I have about this is: We should be wary about whom we share the "high-tech gadgetry" with. I'd hate to see it used against us in the future.


9 posted on 11/18/2005 7:58:12 PM PST by Sterm26 (Indict....no, HANG Joe Wilson!)
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To: blam

"The CIA set up a network of secret joint operations centres with two dozen foreign intelligence agencies to hunt down suspected terrorists in the years after September 11 2001, it was reported yesterday."


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Good! So what is the problem?!


10 posted on 11/18/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Secret counter-terrorist intelligence centres (CTICs) are scattered around the world, and demonstrate that intelligence cooperation often bears no resemblance to the public relations between governments.

Did an adult write this article?

11 posted on 11/18/2005 9:00:36 PM PST by Alia
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To: Alia; FairOpinion
CIA Bought Foreign Cooperation Against Terrorism, Says Report

One could amuse oneself imagining what they would write as a headline if they discovered that the CIA didn't "bought" intelligence about terrorism, can't one?

See, they have it both ways.

12 posted on 11/18/2005 9:02:37 PM PST by Howlin ("Victory is not an exit strategy." ``Jack Murtha 11/18/05)
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To: FairOpinion
Good! So what is the problem?!

Its working and so the press is nervous their allies in Al Qaeda etc. will loose the fight.
13 posted on 11/18/2005 9:02:56 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: syncked

It is also a fact that there really was no "Hindu" religion in India at the time of the Muslim invasions. What is now Hindusim was then thousands of local sects and a multitude of yogis and saddhus.

On the other hand, Buddhism was a monolithic and coherent religion with libraries, universities and monastaries - all of which could be killed, burned and put to the torch by the Muslims, and they were. They left nothing of the greatest university in the world at the time - Nalanda University - but its foundations and heaps of ash.


14 posted on 11/18/2005 9:05:14 PM PST by John Valentine
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To: blam
CIA Bought Foreign Cooperation Against Terrorism, Says Report

And the Dems have been buying votes and elections in the US for years...but that doesn't seem to bother the Guardian.

15 posted on 11/18/2005 9:17:57 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Sterm26

"I'd hate to see it used against us in the future"

Too late, Klintoon & co. plus Chinese moles in every university or private lab have already done that. Plus half our allies sell our stuff out the back door.

It's nasty out there.


16 posted on 11/18/2005 9:21:13 PM PST by RicocheT
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To: Howlin
lol. If the "Foreign Cooperation Against Terror" really, like, really LUVED the US, it would have "cooperated" for free. Even tho that's not what the "Foreign Cooperation Against Terror" gets paid to do by their own countries.

lol..

17 posted on 11/19/2005 6:04:16 PM PST by Alia
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