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Arab spring has created 'intelligence disaster', warns former CIA boss
Guardian News ^ | 28 August 2011 | Charlotte Higgins

Posted on 08/28/2011 9:05:09 PM PDT by george76

Michael Scheuer says rendition should be brought back as lack of intelligence has left UK and US unable to monitor militants.

The Arab spring has "delighted al-Qaida" and caused "an intelligence disaster" for the US and Britain, the former head of the CIA unit in charge of pursuing Osama bin Laden has warned...

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

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alqaida; arabspring; cia; egypt; libya; michaelscheuer; scheuer

1 posted on 08/28/2011 9:05:14 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Imagine that.


2 posted on 08/28/2011 9:08:54 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: george76

Gee...another liberal President who allowed the Muzzies to take over a country on his watch. I fear we will have to go to war against Egypt, Libya in the future because of the pretender in chief. God Help America...God help our troops!


3 posted on 08/28/2011 9:10:02 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: george76

This is what happens when Americans voted for a 2008 ‘winter’.


4 posted on 08/28/2011 9:10:30 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: george76

The Arab Spring has destabilized the region and made the world a more dangerous place.

What this administration did in Egypt was inexcusable. The results will speak for themselves.


5 posted on 08/28/2011 9:11:19 PM PDT by volunbeer (Keep the dope, we'll make the change in 2012!)
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To: volunbeer

Works for me. This piece meal approach is bound for failure. Let them get the whole region to show their true colors and we can glass the area and be done with it.


6 posted on 08/28/2011 9:15:01 PM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: george76; All

Does anyone remember what it used to be called? “Dawn” something...


7 posted on 08/28/2011 9:17:09 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: bronxville

Red Dawn? Was that it?


8 posted on 08/28/2011 9:23:09 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: jakerobins
They're dancing in the streets of Tripoli (and the White House).

The Middle East is being sharpened into a saber of massive destruction and our Western leaders are cooing as if they were admiring twins in a maternity ward.

Obama-Camel-2sm
 What's the big deal? It's the religion of peace after all.
9 posted on 08/28/2011 9:26:40 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: jakerobins

“allowed the Muzzies”

Dont you mean assisted?


10 posted on 08/28/2011 9:28:13 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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To: george76

All quite predictable and enthusiastically assisted by the mainstream media Fifth Column as exemplified by The Guardian.


11 posted on 08/28/2011 9:30:52 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: El Sordo

Thanks but I just looked it up and Red Dawn is a movie - an interesting looking movie at that...
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2010/06/red-dawn-second-excellent-trashing-of.html


12 posted on 08/28/2011 9:32:50 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: Crim

“allowed the Muzzies”
.............
Dont you mean assisted?


And he’s doing the same with Libya. 0bama is using our own military to the detriment of the United States.


13 posted on 08/28/2011 9:54:32 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: unkus

ITs too bad more did not see it that way!

POS begs for impeachment and the people are too stupid to push for it.


14 posted on 08/28/2011 10:15:32 PM PDT by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: bronxville

Sorry, I wuz jus’ funnin’.

I too am quite skeptical of the direction the Middle East is going.


15 posted on 08/28/2011 10:34:03 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: george76
Can't say cooler heads in various elements of Congress and elsewhere did not warn the clowns in the current WH and State Department fully infused with communist, socialist, and close affiliations this would end up being one more tax dollar burden and support of a cause that in the reality has no bearing on the welfare and security of the United States.
Do have a great upcoming day. Time to sign off this madness for a while.
16 posted on 08/28/2011 11:04:20 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: george76

And our Govt. complicit it the Islamic Brotherhoods plan for global Caliphate. Not until the enemy has us bound and is slitting our governments throat will they wake up and wish they had not betrayed us.We have encouraged even aided in the overthrow of how many Arab Stats— How many of them have seen
a more secular- more Western system replace what we have helped remove.


17 posted on 08/29/2011 5:25:59 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: george76

What do you expect from leaders who have no intelligence?


18 posted on 08/29/2011 1:04:04 PM PDT by kathsua (A woman can do anything a man can do and have babies besides.)
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