Risen is co-author, with former CIA intelligence officer * Milt Beardon, of The Main Enemy, being published in May, 2003.
* CBS terrorism analyst Milt Beardon
*******
Sept 17, 2001
Following the cataclysmic events of September 11, the U.S. authorities were quick to name bin Laden their prime suspect. The reasons for their suspicions are many, and the evidence collected during the ensuing investigation seems to support their theory.
Although the evidence seemed compelling, at least two people weren't convinced. Milt Beardon, a former CIA agent who spent time in Afghanistan advising the mujahedeen during their fight against the Soviets, told ABC's Sunday program that the attacks may have been the work of Shi'ite Muslims because the hijackers on the aircraft that crashed outside Philadelphia were described as wearing "red head bands," an adornment known to date back to the formation of the Shi'ite sect.
Mir also doubts that bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks, saying the terrorist leader did not have the resources to pull it off.
******
Saddam Hussein would say, ‘If we’ve got a spy on the fifth floor of the building, take everyone on that floor out and chop them up into little pieces.’
—Former CIA official Milt Beardon, describing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s approach to counterintelligence, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of U.S.-recruited Iraqi agents from 1991 to 2003.
The largest single loss of Iraqis helping U.S. intelligence occurred in August 1996. Saddam's security forces infiltrated a U.S.-backed coup plot and rounded up 200 Iraqis on charges of participating in the plot and executed 80 of them immediately, according to reports published at the time. Iraqi forces then invaded sections of northern Iraq that were a base for the CIA-coordinated effort, rounding up still more suspects. After that, the CIA struggled painstakingly to rebuild its base of sources inside Iraq.
Rather than prosecute MSM operatives who divulge state security interests in an attempt to render the CIC ineffective in the WOT in order to return socialists to the levers of power, the White House has grown a tiny pair but still is short of the mark.
HITLER has a towel on his head.
Time to get busy.