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Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Iranian Racism: Casting Kurds as the Bad Guys Now!


Ok, so let me get this straight. Fars New Agency considers itself a news organization. However, I was under impression that a news organization has some guidelines and rules to follow in order to report an act and they should avert or at least pretend to not be a propaganda mouth-piece. Here is what they reported,

"My own confidential Israeli source confirms today's murder was the work of the Mossad and MKO, as have been a number of previous operations I've reported here," Richard Silverstein, a senior Jewish American journalist, said in his weblog named Tikun Olam.
Fars News Agency

I read this and I decided to check the source. It turns out that the source of their accusation is a Self-Hating Israeli guy who is a complete nut-job. This blogger has zero credibility and his source is “his friend in intelligence.” If you read even further, this idiot quotes this French reporter who has HEARD about Israeli cooperation with the Kurdish Resistance Fighters. There is absolutely zero credibility to this story because they have not specified a credible source or specific source or specific act to back this claim up before reporting it as FACT. It is all in vague language. However, Richard Silverstein, (the stupid self-hating Israeli) is a blogger and he has the right to publish anything and everything on his blog THAT IS HIS OPINION. How stupid is this Fars News Agency to use A BLOGGER AS A SOURCE OF NEWS.
This is the product of absolute desperation by the Iranian murderous regime. They are being outplayed by both Israel and US. The drums of war are getting louder and louder. Now, pathetic this news agencies are desperately trying to blame anything and everything on everybody. I am not contemplating that Israel was not behind this attack. However, I have seen zero proof that Israel was behind the attack either. Therefore, when it comes to reporting of the news, you could argue it is BELIEVED that Israel MIGHT be behind the attack. However reporting it as a fact and using a blogger and “his friend” as a source is a complete utter stupidity.
Fars News Agency who is the political mouth piece of the Iranian Regime is trying to use its RACIST method to cast blame on other Iranian Minorities. They are trying to blame it on the Kurds and build a pathway to murder these minorities that have already been slaughtered throughout ages in Iran. Fars is trying to allege that true Iranians are behind the government and nobody would cooperate with Israelis or Americans. However, Fars I have news for you and you could use me as a source if you wish to make another report about this bombing using a blogger as a source, THERE ARE FAR MORE DESPERATE, POOR, IMPOVERISHED, OPPRESSED IRANIANS WHO HATE THIS REGIME THAN KURDS. This is pure racism that the regional countries have historically utilized to hide their shame. It is always someone else’s fault. It is always minority’s fault. Iranians are supporting this murderous regime 100%. These are the claims that this fake new agency is trying to make in order to redeem this shameful regime.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

This Man is Innocent


This man is an innocent man. For those who don’t know this guy, Iranian Terrorist Regime accuses this man of spying. According to the reports, he has entered Iran three months ago. He wanted to visit his sick grandmother and that was it. The Iranian Regime picked him two weeks after he had entered Iran. According to Telegraph, Iranian Prosecutor who is more like Iranian death squad has asked the Iranian sorry excuse for judicial system for Death Penalty against this poor innocent man. The question is why? Why would Iran accuse this man of espionage if he is really an innocent man? The next question how could Iran make such a claim? The answers to both of these questions are incredibly simple if you have ever resided in Iran. If you have not and/or do not know anything about this, then it might puzzle you.
Why?
Why would Iranian Barbaric regime accuse this innocent man of espionage? What is the point? What do they get out of it? The answer is incredibly simple. Look at my previous post titled “Bad Times for Iran”. Iran is going through some tough times. Iranian regime has been taking some serious blows in the world of Intelligence warfare. For a very long time, the Western Powers including U.S. and Israel monitored Iranian Government and their terrorist intelligent services. However, they never openly and directly engaged them. These Western Intelligence Units never directly engaged Iran and its units within Iran. The reason is quite simple due to 1950s CIA failures that literally destroyed a working democracy that planted the seed for Islamic Revolution of 1979 and Iranian hatred for America. However, things have changed significantly. The US is trying to prevent Israel from engaging Iran militarily. Now they have started Cold War style warfare against Iran that includes covert activity to sabotage Iranian Nuclear Ambition.
Recently, Iran has been taking many hits. The mysterious explosions has been incredibly damaging to the rulers of Iran. It has severely damaged Iranian capabilities when it comes to intelligence warfare. It has undermined Iranian Regime’s ability to control its sensitive sites and their ability to protect them. Therefore, Iran is in desperate needs to restore its power that has been undermined by these bombings and activities. Iran’s regime was under impression that they are in full control. They thought that they could simply deter any country to directly engage them militarily by holding the whole world hostage and its missiles could defend Iran. They had under-estimated American intelligence power. They wanted to play with the big boys when it comes to intelligence and now that they are playing, they have realized that they are pretty week. They are using this innocent man to restore such belief in Iranian Regime’s powers.
There is absolutely no proof that this innocent man is a spy or he was involved in espionage. There is not a single shred of proof, paper work, conversation, or anything like that to prove that this man tried to enter Iranian Intelligence. Their whole case is based on TV Confessions. Given Iranian report card, nobody would believe this government’s contention that this innocent man is a spy. The man entered Iran and he was picked up by Iranian Terrorists two weeks after his arrival. There is no way in hell anybody would believe such claim that he is a spy. However, why would Iran use this man for such a foolish claim? The answer to this question leads us to the next question which is “How would Iranian Regime benefit from such a stupid claim?”
How?
As it was stated above, Iranian regime had underestimated the Western Intelligence and its power. They had forgotten that US had experiences of Cold War. They had also failed to monitor’s Israel’s experience in covert operations and her intelligence war against Terrorism. On the other hand, Iran had created this vision of this “Ruthlessness” among its citizens that they are capable destroying any movement against Iranian Regime. It was to deter the internal forces who are trying to basically change this regime. They had created this image that Iran’s Intelligence is capable of fighting anybody anywhere in order to preserve this regime and this regime is too powerful to be changed or destroyed. The image has been simply shattered in the past couple of months.
In Iran, there is a lot of noise about fog of war. Iranians and its citizens are worried about the war that is coming. Although the regime is desperately trying to claim that they are still in full control, the recent bombings and assassinations are showing more than ever that this government is losing its power grip. Another indication of such worries is Iranian Currency and how it has significantly lost its value against dollars. For years, Iranian Currency was sort of stable against Dollar. Now it is losing its value which indicates the level of worries among masses in Iran. These developments are destroying the deterrence and powerful image that this government has been trying to create in order to preserve its survival. This would give energy to the opposition and internal forces against this regime by saying, “Look, maybe this government is not as powerful as they had claimed to be”. So now the government is in desperate need to amend such image and restore it.
The way that this government is going to restore that power image is by using this innocent guy. Nobody believes these TV confessions. Iranian government also knows that nobody believes these confessions. However, the Iranian government is simply trying to show off its ruthlessness by saying that regardless of what happens, we are still in power and we could kill anybody and everybody. They are basically trying to score a point by terrorizing the masses in Iran by saying that look we could easily suppress any movements and there is nothing anybody could do about it. This is more like public hanging except with much broader audience. They are trying to deter anybody from rising up in Iran against this regime.
Another way that this regime is using this innocent man is by falsely providing false hope. They have denied a lot of reports about the explosions. The reason is because that these explosions having too embarrassing for the regime and the reason has been stated above which is that it shows that this ruthless regime is weak. Now they are trying to fool the citizens by claiming that they are actually keeping up with the fight. Another example of such desperation was downing of the American Drone. Iranian Regime put it on state television and showed it off to the public. Why would they need to do that? The answer is very simple: they are very desperate and it is to restore the faith in the regime. Countries do not just televise victories unless they need to use it for their own benefits. Iran needed to televise that drone and it only proved Iranian desperation for some sort of victory.
In the end, the saddest part is that this innocent man is the victim of this regime trying to restore its powerful image. His trial is nothing but a joke and it is an insult to the judicial proceedings. Iran is desperate and it is trying to maximize its survival by any means necessary. This is truly a sickening crime against Humanity and the world is absolutely silence about it.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Unknown Heroes Behind the Mission that Located Osama Bin Laden


This is an amazing story about a man who was behind the mission who captured the arch terrorist of our decade or possibly this century. Heroes like these never receive public acknowledgment of their success nor will they ever be publicly thanked by the main-stream Media. It has to do with these agents safety and security. However, some of it has to do with the fact that our society has lost touch with who are the true heroes of our society. They are more concerned about consumerist and pop-culture heroes or some dumb singers, actors, and/or activist doing something for publicity stunt and they hold them up as to be the icon of our society. However, heroes like these don’t need public recognition of their good work. I believe they get the true satisfaction when they can see the title “mission accomplish” and that would be more than enough for them. From bottom of my heart, I salute heroes like “John” and I thank them for their hard work. Here is the story from MSNBC.com:

WASHINGTON — After Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold.
Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that now-famous photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade was finding the al-Qaida leader. The analyst was the first to put in writing last summer that the CIA might have a legitimate lead on finding Bin Laden. He oversaw the collection of clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His was among the most confident voices telling Obama that Bin Laden was probably behind those walls.
The CIA will not permit him to speak with reporters. But interviews with former and current U.S. intelligence officials reveal a story of quiet persistence and continuity that led to the greatest counterterrorism success in the history of the CIA.
Nearly all the officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters or because they did not want their names linked to the Bin Laden operation.
The Associated Press has agreed to the CIA's request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution.
Call him John, his middle name. John was among the hundreds of people who poured into the CIA's Counterterrorism Center after the Sept. 11 attacks, bringing fresh eyes and energy to the fight.
Disparate strands
He had been a standout in the agency's Russian and Balkan departments. When Vladimir Putin was coming to power in Russia, for instance, John pulled together details overlooked by others and wrote what some colleagues considered the definitive profile of Putin. He challenged some of the agency's conventional wisdom about Putin's KGB background and painted a much fuller portrait of the man who would come to dominate Russian politics.
That ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists. "He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing," said John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks.
From 2003, when he joined the Counterterrorism Center, through 2005, John was one of the driving forces behind the most successful string of counterterrorism captures in the fight against terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj al-Libi. But there was no greater prize than finding Bin Laden. Bin Laden had slipped away from U.S. forces in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, and the CIA believed he had taken shelter in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan.
In 2006, the agency mounted Operation Cannonball, an effort to establish bases in the tribal regions and find Bin Laden. Even with all its money and resources, the CIA could not locate its prime target.
By then, the agency was on its third director since Sept. 11, 2001. John had outlasted many of his direct supervisors who retired or went on to other jobs. The CIA doesn't like to keep its people in one spot for too long. They become jaded. They start missing things. John didn't want to leave. He'd always been persistent. In college, he walked on to a Division I basketball team and hustled his way into a rotation full of scholarship players.
The CIA offered to promote him and move him somewhere else. John wanted to keep the Bin Laden file. Champagne was uncorked at the CIA's headquarters after it was confirmed that Navy SEALs had killed Osama Bin Laden.
He examined and re-examined every aspect of Bin Laden's life. How did he live while hiding in Sudan? With whom did he surround himself while living in Kandahar, Afghanistan? What would a Bin Laden hideout look like today?
'We'll get there'
The CIA had a list of potential leads, associates and family members who might have access to Bin Laden. "Just keep working that list bit by bit," one senior intelligence official recalls John telling his team. "He's there somewhere. We'll get there." John rose through the ranks of the counterterrorism center, but because of his nearly unrivaled experience, he always had influence beyond his title. One former boss confessed that he didn't know exactly what John's position was. "I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to," the official said. While he was shepherding the hunt for Bin Laden, John also was pushing to expand the Predator program, the agency's use of unmanned airplanes to launch missiles at terrorists.
The CIA largely confined those strikes to targets along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. But in late 2007 and early 2008, John said the CIA needed to carry out those attacks deeper inside Pakistan. It was a risky move. Pakistan was an important but shaky ally. John's analysts saw an increase in the number of Westerners training in Pakistani terrorist camps. John worried that those men would soon start showing up on U.S. soil. "We've got to act," John said, a former senior intelligence official recalls. "There's no explaining inaction." John took the analysis to then CIA Director Michael Hayden, who agreed and took the recommendation to President George W. Bush.
In the last months of the Bush administration, the CIA began striking deeper inside Pakistan. Obama immediately adopted the same strategy and stepped up the pace. Recent attacks have killed al-Qaida's No. 3 official, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, and Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. All the while, John's team was working the list of Bin Laden leads. In 2007, a female colleague whom the AP has also agreed not to identify decided to zero in on a man known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a nom de guerre.
Other terrorists had identified al-Kuwaiti as an important courier for al-Qaida's upper echelon, and she believed that finding him might help lead to Bin Laden. "They had their teeth clenched on this and they weren't going to let go," McLaughlin said of John and his team. "This was an obsession." It took three years, but in August 2010, al-Kuwaiti turned up on a National Security Agency wiretap. The female analyst, who had studied journalism at a Big Ten university, tapped out a memo for John, "Closing in on Bin Laden Courier," saying her team believed al-Kuwaiti was somewhere on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Bigger picture
As the CIA homed in on al-Kuwaiti, John's team continually updated the memo with fresh information. Everyone knew that anything with Bin Laden's name on it would shoot right to the director's desk and invite scrutiny, so the early drafts played down hopes that the courier would lead to Bin Laden. But John saw the bigger picture. The hunt for al-Kuwaiti was effectively the hunt for Bin Laden, and he was not afraid to say so. The revised memo was finished in September 2010. John, by then deputy chief of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, emailed it to those who needed to know. The title was "Anatomy of a Lead."
As expected, the memo immediately became a hot topic inside CIA headquarters and Director Leon Panetta wanted to know more. John never overpromised, colleagues recall, but he was unafraid to say there was a good chance this might be the break the agency was looking for.
The CIA tracked al-Kuwaiti to a walled compound in Abbottabad. If Bin Laden was hiding there, in a busy suburb not far from Pakistan's military academy, it challenged much of what the agency had assumed about his hideout.
But John said it wasn't that far-fetched. Drawing on what he knew about Bin Laden's earlier hideouts, he said it made sense that Bin Laden had surrounded himself only with his couriers and family and did not use phones or the Internet. The CIA knew that top al-Qaida operatives had lived in urban areas before. A cautious Panetta took the information to Obama, but there was much more work to be done. The government tried everything to figure out who was in that compound.
In a small house nearby, the CIA put people who would fit in and not draw any attention. They watched and waited but turned up nothing definitive. Satellites captured images of a tall man walking the grounds of the compound, but never got a look at his face.
Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; Bin Laden was always the best explanation.
This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, that the CIA could keep trying, but the information was unlikely to get any better. He told Panetta this might be their best chance to find Bin Laden and it would not last forever. Panetta made that same point to the president.
Panetta held regular meetings on the hunt, often concluding with an around-the-table poll: How sure are you that this is Bin Laden? John was always bullish, rating his confidence as high as 80 percent. Others weren't so sure, especially those who had been in the room for operations that went bad. Not two years earlier, the CIA thought it had an informant who could lead him to Bin Laden's deputy. That man blew himself up at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and injuring six others.
That didn't come up in the meetings with Panetta, a senior intelligence official said. But everyone knew the risk the CIA was taking if it told the president that Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and was wrong. "We all knew that if he wasn't there and this was a disaster, certainly there would be consequences," the official recalled.
Reassuring confidence
John was among several CIA officials who repeatedly briefed Obama and others at the White House. Current and former officials involved in the discussions said John had a coolness and a reassuring confidence.
By April, the president had decided to send the Navy SEALs to assault the compound. Though the plan was in motion, John went back to his team, a senior intelligence official said. "Right up to the last hour," he told them, "if we get any piece of information that suggests it's not him, somebody has to raise their hand before we risk American lives."
Nobody did. Inside the Situation Room, the analyst who was barely known outside the close-knit intelligence world took his place alongside the nation's top security officials, the household names and well-known faces of Washington.
An agonizing 40 minutes after Navy SEALs stormed the compound, the report came back: Bin Laden was dead. John and his team had guessed correctly, taking an intellectual risk based on incomplete information. It was a gamble that ended a decade of disappointment. Later, Champagne was uncorked back at the CIA, where those in the Counterterrorism Center who had targeted Bin Laden for so long celebrated. John's team reveled in the moment.
Two days after Bin Laden's death, John accompanied Panetta to Capitol Hill. The Senate Intelligence Committee wanted a full briefing on the successful mission. At one point in the private session, Panetta turned to the man whose counterterrorism resume spanned four CIA directors.
He began to speak, about the operation and about the years of intelligence it was based on. And as he spoke about the mission that had become his career, the calm, collected analyst paused, and he choked up.

Click here for the link to the story on MSNBC.com