Paul Pillar, CIA officer who was National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia, helped to prepare 25-page document that was passed off to members of Congress as a summary of National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. WINPAC was set up in 2001 to replace CIA's Nonproliferation..…
DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism sources add that Baghdadi, aged 48 and born in Iraq, follows leaders of Al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, to be marked out and liquidated by US special operations teams and the CIA. After founding the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant in 2010, as..…
US forces occupy Iraq, its sovereignty lost to Pentagon CIA control, .. The meeting had everything to do with asserting US demands, wanting Iraq used including in its own territory by Pentagon CIA-controlled ISIS foot soldiers.. ..…
Moreover, there was never chance that Iraqi people were going to be freed, given that the particular governmental structure that Pentagon and CIA were going to establish Iraq after overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime. ..…
For example, in 1953 CIA overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, and installed in his place the shah, autocrat. ... Only after the war was over could House Intelligence Committee penetrate the secretiveness of CIA and find out the case for Iraq..…
In 2002, CIA asked Wilson to investigate claims that Iraq had attempted to buy yellowcake, nuclear material, from Niger.. ..…
Bush twisted intelligence on Iraq to justify war.. Subsequently, Plame's as CIA operative was leaked in scandal that led to the conviction of vice Scooter B. ..…
In 2002, CIA asked Wilson to investigate claims that Iraq had attempted to buy yellowcake, nuclear material, from Niger.. ..…
Aren’t these relics of CIA creations from the Iran-Iraq war? . Truth being the first casualty of war ‘n’ all? ... Aren’t these relics of CIA creations from the Iran-Iraq war? . Truth being the first casualty of war ‘n’ all? ..…
In his January State of Union address, he coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100% of Iraq and Syria... ... The August US department report was commercial for wanting Pentagon, NATO, CIA Syria and Iraq — along with more funding for militarism and warmaking.. ..…
Hezbollah Releases Audio Files of Iraqi Officer's Phone Coordination with CIA against Hashd Al-Shaabi . TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's Hezbollah popular group released a series of audio files revealing phone talks and Whatsapp chats between a senior Iraqi officer in al-Anbar province and the US spy..…
In “The dawn of the forever war” – pre 9/11 – CIA collusion with the Taliban was “swept away” – allowing a “close knit band of neoconservatives to build the case of a full scale military confrontation with Iraq.” The CIA’s long standing “sordid history of collusion..…
Many of these companies are military-related firms like MVM, which provided guards to the CIA in Iraq, and General Dynamics. ..…
In February Guardian and BBC Arabic unveiled documentary exploring the role of retired Colonel James Steele in the recruitment, training and initial deployments of CIA advised and funded Special Police Commandos Iraq.. ... Truths, like how CIA nurtured the leadership it installed..…
She said that the US intelligence community was making up excuses to justify hostile anti-Iran policies just as it did before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. . . . America’s CIA and Israel’s Mossad are conflating and distorting intelligence to push the United States into a military..…
Bush conferred Medals of Freedom on his Iraq war team, including CIA chief George “Slam Dunk” Tenet, Iraq viceroy Paul Bremer, and ambassador Ryan Crocker, whom Bush called “America’s Lawrence of Arabia.” ..…
On the heels of the horrors of 9/11, the United States and our allies waged war against Iraq in 2003 based primarily on that assurance.\ . But in 2004, a special advisor to the CIA concluded Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. ..…
He will most likely then be extradited to the US to face trial in a kangaroo court for leaking information about the CIA and the Iraq War. ..…
Retired DIA Rick Francona told NYT that Iraq's chemical weapons were used in the war's in early 1988, in. What concerned DIA, CIA and Reagan administration was that Iran not break through Fao Peninsula and spread Islamic to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.. ..…
Indeed, the latter’s passionate embrace of Saddam seemed to know no bounds, so avidly did Bush ply the dictator with money, agricultural credits (which allowed Saddam to use his scarce hard currency for weapons) and advanced technology – includuing “dual-use” gear for weapons of mass destruction –..…
As the former weapons inspector Scott Ritter had announced to the world before the war, Iraq had no chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and nor any program to develop them. . Even the CIA's Iraq Study Group, which sent 1,750 experts to 1,200 suspected WMD sites all over Iraq,..…
In October 2002, the CIA orchestrated a national intelligence estimate to argue falsely that Iraq was acquiring uranium from Niger for use in a nuclear weapon. ... Bush turned to CIA director George Tenet and remarked, “I’ve been given all this intelligence about..…
The envoy, Joseph Wilson, had been sent by CIA to Niger to investigate whether Iraq had tried to buy uranium from African country.. ... And some government officials have noted to Time in interviews that Wilson's, Valerie Plame, is CIA official. ..…
Wilson is ambassador who was asked by CIA to investigate claims that Iraq was attempting to buy uranium for nuclear weapons, one of Bush prewar allegations against Saddam Hussein.. ..…
Wilson had been dispatched to Africa by the CIA to investigate claims that Iraq sought enriched uranium from Niger. ..…
They tell us that CIA Director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud on members of Congress, the media, the public and perhaps even you. . ... Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.) . Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer,..…
Thanks to the support offered by the US and other Western states, Iraq once possessed huge arsenal of chemical weapons.. Reports say CIA knew about Iraq's use of chemical weapons as early as 1983, and the US took no action against the violations of law, and even failed to alert..…
in point is Elissa Slotkin, CIA operative with three tours Iraq, who worked the director of intelligence. ... Republican, Will Hurd, is CIA agent, so any in that district will have his or choice of intelligence agency loyalists in both Democratic and the general election.. ..…
Contrary to claims that it has backed Iraqi, Washington has nevertheless allowed CIA and Saudis to arm Iraq's enemies.. Saudi in buying weapons and then having CIA disperse them mirrors U.S and Saudis operated in tandem in the 1980s on the pretext they were for defense and then..…
Official Washington's tough-guy-ism eschewing diplomacy favor of military force has slammed United States into series of foreign-policy disasters, such as Iraq War. But key promoters keep denouncing anyone favoring aggression as an isolationist, as ex-CIA analyst.. ..…
The in Christian Science Monitor declared, Why Saddam Hussein lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction London Telegraph proclaimed, Saddam Hussein 'lied about WMDs to protect Iraq from Iran and Reuters announced, FBI Saddam he lied about having nukes to Iran.. Apparently relying on..…
On June 30, Holder accepted Durham's recommendation to carry out full investigations of two deaths in CIA custody, reportedly from Iraq and Afghanistan. ..…
WASHINGTON -- Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida Senate report says, ions President Bush has used to build support for Iraq. ... Democrats contended that the administration continues to use intelligence, ions of link between Saddam's and the recently killed al-Zarqawi, to justify Iraq. ..…
WASHINGTON — At the request of CIA, Justice Department drafted memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation -- practice that international legal specialists say contravenes Geneva Conventions.. One intelligence with the operation said CIA..…
In a report to Congress, the CIA said Iraq had constructed two “mixing” buildings for solid-propellant fuels at a plant known as al-Mamoun. ... Despite controversy over prewar intelligence on Iraq, the CIA said its estimates of Iraqi missiles were on target. . ..…
We need to know what directives Bush gave for CIA and military interrogations in Iraq. ..…
government headed by Iyad Allawi, Shiite once supported by CIA, will command Iraq's security forces and will have the right to order the exit of foreign troops. ..…