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CIA memo on United States as 'exporter of terrorism' published by Wikileaks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7965140/CIA-memo-on-United-States-as-exporter-of-terrorism-published-by-Wikileaks.html
A classified CIA memo discussing the United States as a possible
"exporter of terrorism" because of al-Qaeda recruitment in America has
been posted on website, Wikileaks.
By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 9:00AM BST 26 Aug 2010
The three-page document addressed the hypothetical question of the
impact on the United States if Americans were found to be operating
abroad to carry out acts of terrorism.
The CIA memo, produced by the agency's Red Cell 'think tank' set up
after the September 11 attacks, does not appear to expose any state
secrets and was dismissed by one government official as hardly a
"blockbuster."
It is the latest classified memo to be published by the
whistle-blowing website, which last month released more than 70,000
secret military documents on the allied war in Afghanistan, prompting
an FBI investigation.
It has threatened to release some 15,000 more, despite criticism that
the leaks endangered the lives of sources and exposed sensitive
intelligence gathering methods to enemy fighters.
The latest memo said the United States could lose leverage over allies
to co-operate on terrorism, particularly on "extra-judicial
activities".
"Primarily we have been concerned about al Qaeda infiltrating
operatives into the United States to conduct terrorist attacks, but AQ
may be increasingly looking for Americans to operate overseas," the
document proposes.
"Undoubtedly al Qaeda and other terrorist groups recognise that
Americans can be great assets in terrorist operations overseas."
It said US citizens are valuable to terrorist organisations because
they are harder to detect. They don't fit the typical Arab-Muslim
profile and can easily communicate with leaders through their
"unfettered" access to the internet and other methods, the report
said.
The report cited cases of Americans involved in alleged plots in
Pakistan, India and elsewhere and said "contrary to common belief, the
American export of terrorism or terrorists is not a recent
phenomenon."
The CIA played down the paper's significance, noting Red Cell teams of
analysts were tasked with taking up hypothetical scenarios and
presenting alternate views, divergent from mainstream thinking.
"These sorts of analytic products – clearly identified as coming from
the Agency's 'Red Cell' – are designed simply to provoke thought and
present different points of view," said spokesman George Little.
It said the United States had a certain amount of leverage with allies
on extradition requests following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but
warned that could change.
"If the US were seen as an 'exporter of terrorism,' foreign
governments could request a reciprocal arrangement that would impact
US sovereignty," it said.
It said foreign governments could request information on U.S. citizens
or request their "rendition," or the secret, extra-judicial transfer
of a terrorism suspect abroad.
"U.S. refusal to co-operate with foreign government requests for
extradition might lead some governments to consider secretly
extracting U.S. citizens," the report said.
It also warned of potential obstruction of U.S. efforts and cited an
Italian case against CIA agents, who were convicted last year of
kidnapping a terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt, where
he says he was tortured during questioning.
"The proliferation of such cases would not only challenge US bilateral
relations with other countries but also damage global counterterrorism
efforts," it said.
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orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
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