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WASHINGTON – The Associated Press has learned that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched.
A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. The official says a senior and experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting that the purpose of the meeting was to gain intelligence.
The former senior intelligence official and another former official with knowledge of the attack spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The CIA has declined to comment.
Originally posted by Deny Arrogance
Seems very unlikely.
Maybe the CIA was training some patsy how to use the explosives and it accidentally went live.
It happened in the gym, perfect spot for a training exercise.
[edit on 30-12-2009 by Deny Arrogance]
Originally posted by Symbiote
Good hustle, Muslim people. The CIA needs to DIE.
Hope you get a few extra virgins for that one.
Heh.
Originally posted by Symbiote Good hustle, Muslim people. The CIA needs to DIE. Hope you get a few extra virgins for that one. Heh.
Originally posted by Deny Arrogance
Seems very unlikely.
Maybe the CIA was training some patsy how to use the explosives and it accidentally went live.
It happened in the gym, perfect spot for a training exercise.
[edit on 30-12-2009 by Deny Arrogance]
The UN special envoy in Afghanistan has said he is concerned about the mounting civilian death toll in the war-ravaged country. Kai Eide warned against nighttime actions by coalition forces ''given that they often result in lethal outcomes for civilians." The UN representative urged US-led NATO forces to make every effort to minimize civilian casualties in Afghanistan. He was referring to the alleged killing of ten civilians at the hands of foreign troops on Sunday in northeast Afghanistan. The US military insists that the victims were armed militants. The UN however confirmed that Afghans slain in a US-led raid at weekend were Students. ''Based on our initial investigation, eight of those killed were students enrolled in local schools.'' Eide said. The victims, including eight school children, were dragged out of their homes in the Kunar province and shot to death. Military offensives in Kunar, which borders Pakistan, are being led by US Special Forces. Eide's comments come as the Afghan government has called on NATO to hand over the foreign troops responsible for Sunday's killings. President Hamid Karzai on Thursday demanded the US hand over the gunmen who killed the children. The coalition attack has sparked a public outcry and prompted anti-US demonstrations, with protesters in Kabul demanding that US forces should leave the country. Protesters strongly condemned the killing and warned of violent reaction by the public. The demonstrators have torched a US flag and several effigies of US President Barack Obama over the past 48 hours. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a recent report that 2,038 civilians had died in the first 10 months of 2009 as a result of US-led operations in the conflict-torn country. Figures released by the United Nations indicate a 10 percent rise in the civilian death toll from the US-led war in Afghanistan with a good share of fatalities caused by foreign forces. Kai Eide is a Norwegian diplomat who was appointed Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on March 7, 2008.
Originally posted by nh_ee
Apparently our Oil Soaked media is only providing one side of the the story, what follows is what we're not being told.
There was a recent killing of 10 civilians, 8 of which were grade school age.
The Afghans are up in arms over it and wanted someone to answer for it. Even President Hamid Karzai demanded the US hand over the gunmen who killed the children.
www.presstv.ir...
Originally posted by MaxBlack
Indeed there are those that suspect that the victims were set up. This point is not to be ignored because it is a valid point.
In 1991-92 After Bill Clinton came to power and during his first term, a major policy shift occured involving special operations types in the field. The operatives could see the results because operatives were getting killed in the most unusual ways. Most were getting killed in non critical missions. Administrative actions were getting a lot of operatives killed and there were those including myself that suspected the deaths were all part of some intelligence internal action to kill those that had knowledge of prior highly classified missions which some wanted buried and hidden for all time. I make this remark because those getting killed were all experienced veterans and for some reason all the newbies were never hurt or endangered because of course they are too new to do normal business.
My last official assignment I was directed to Ecuador on a mundane in/out admin type mission. When I got there I was met and taken to my hotel where after checking in and having dinner I broke protocols and bribed a bell boy to allow me into an adjacant vaccant hotel room for the pupose of scaring an old friend that was coming to see me. Little did I know that while I was waiting across the hall in the vaccant room that a tag team showed up across the hall at the hotel room I was assigned. As I watched through the peep hole, I could see a team of two armed men, one on each side of the door and one unarmed knocker ready to rush the room upon the door opening. As I watched in shock while they knocked on the door over and over, I realized I had been set up. I escaped out a firescape window and ladder and then over a weeks period worked my way back to Panama by way of the jungle connecting Panama to Columbia. I was scared for my life, but it made me clearly realize that I couldnt trust anyone if I expected to make it back to safety and as such I would never be the same again with anyone I worked with. With no one I really trusted, I took an exit option Clinton offered during the big drawdown right after the first Gulf War and got the hell out of the miltary. It had gotten dangerous to be a seasoned successful agent and I knew it was time to go away while I still could breathe. It is a decision I do not regret to this day. In fact, it is probably the only reason I am alive.
It's a remark of humor among intelligence professionals that "Retirement" to the CIA means your timely death by whatever means necessary. I mention this because to me, it was my final retirement party that I missed in Ecuador, and as such, this most recent attack and killing of CIA agents is not beyond the possibility of it being an internal CIA agenda to rid the agency of those assets that could prove some past intelligence mission that might be embarassing or prove a linkage to politicians involved. Either way, what we are seeing is probably just normal business for the agency but I can assure you that there are those field agents right now that are questioning the chain of command and are more than suspicious of who internally generated the mission and who was in charge of running the admin protocols. We may never know, but to think that the CIA killed its own in this day and age is indeed a prudent and logical thought process. It's just a shame that the intelligence support and trust that field operatives require to survive has been replaced with political expediency without the agents knowledge. It will be this type of untrusting atmosphere that will undermine future and current operations because everyone and I do mean everyone with half a pea brain suspects that this is an iside job. While its purpose may be unclear, the techniques have been used so often that those in the know, "KNOW" its not something to ignore.