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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
As I read through all of the stories linked, I kept thinking back to tactics that the Russians used for 50 years in fighting their own terrorists in the pre-Revolution days. The Russian police were masters at turning members of terrorist cells into informants through a variety of means, including torture, deportation and threats on loved ones. There's anecdotal evidence that they even recruited a young Stalin at one point. Is it so far fetched that the same tactic is being used here? By letting al-Faruq back into the world and regularly checking in with him, it might be possible to listen in to the Al-Qaieda network better than we already are. Let him run some minor plots under supervision and get as much information about what else is going on.
Personally, if I were in charge of Al-Qaeida security, I would have put a bullet in Al-Faruq's head as soon as possible. He's of no use immediately and by all accounts he broke under torture.
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Your theory is as at leastas likely an explanation as Mr. Bush's reasoning, today, for why you and I differ in our thinking:
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"Reconciliation is difficult in a country that has been tortured and divided by a tyrant." -GW Bush...during 10/26/06 Press Conference
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You offer no reaction to my other points.....the scare-propaganda bullshit that has come from the mouths of "sleeper cells" Bush, Mueller, and Negroponte..... Negroponte was only US Ambassador to Iraq for five months, and there were no Iraqi Interior Ministry "run" death squads before his short tenure in that country....he also told the senate, last February, that the US discovered "sleeper cell" was not the harmless Pakistani ice cream truck driver Hayat, and his son, that the "cell" turned out to be comprised of....
Can I politely ask you to re-evaluate your entire view on this neocon psy-op that sucks the rights of our residents, and our treasure, from our control?
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http://alternet.org/waroniraq/43335/
....A UN human rights report released September last year held interior ministry forces responsible for an organised campaign of detentions, torture and killings. It reported that special police commando units accused of carrying out the killings were recruited from Shia Badr and Mehdi militias, and trained by U.S. forces.
Retired Col. James Steele, who served as advisor on Iraqi security forces to then U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte supervised the training of these forces.
Steele was commander of the U.S. military advisor group in El Salvador 1984-86, while Negroponte was U.S. ambassador to nearby Honduras 1981-85. Negroponte was accused of widespread human rights violations by the Honduras Commission on Human Rights in 1994. The Commission reported the torture and disappearance of at least 184 political workers.
The violations Negroponte oversaw in Honduras were carried out by operatives trained by the CIA, according to a CIA working group set up in 1996 to look into the U.S. role in Honduras.
The CIA records document that his "special intelligence units," better known as "death squads," comprised CIA-trained Honduran armed units which kidnapped, tortured and killed thousands of people suspected of supporting leftist guerrillas.
Robert Parry's new book is Secrecy & Privilege
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