[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides - Times Online
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 7:37 am Subject: [ctrl] Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides - Times Online March 28, 2008 Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3635838.ece James Hider in Baghdad Abu Iman barely flinched when the Iraqi Government ordered his unit of special police to move against al-Mahdi Army fighters in Basra. His response, while swift, was not what British and US military trainers who have spent the past five years schooling the Iraqi security forces would have hoped for. He and 15 of his comrades took off their uniforms, kept their government-issued rifles and went over to the other side without a second thought. Such turncoats are the thread that could unravel the British Army’s policy in southern Iraq. The military hoped that local forces would be able to combat extremists and allow the Army to withdraw gradually from the battle-scarred and untamed oil city that has fallen under the sway of Islamic fundamentalists, oil smugglers and petty tribal warlords. But if the British taught the police to shoot straight, they failed to instil a sense of unwavering loyalty to the State. “We know the outcome of the fighting in advance because we already defeated the British in the streets of Basra and forced them to withdraw to their base,” Abu Iman told The Times. Related Links Basra crisis leaves British withdrawal in ruins Analysis: Britain must now fight or fail Iraqi troops take on Shia militia in Basra clash “If we go back a bit, everyone remembers the fight with the US in Najaf and the damage and defeat we inflicted on them. Do you think the Iraqi Army is better than those armies? We are right and the Government is wrong. [Nouri al] Maliki [the Iraqi Prime Minister] is driving his Government into the ground.” The reason for his apparent switch of sides was simple: the 36-year-old was already a member of the al-Mahdi Army which, like other militias, has massively infiltrated the British-trained police force in the southern oil city. He claimed that hundreds of others from the 16,000-strong force have also defected to the rebels’ ranks.Abu Iman joined the new Iraqi police force after the invasion, joining the Mugawil, a special police unit infamous for brutality, kidnapping and sectarian murders. “We already heard two weeks ago that we were going to attack the Mahdi Army, so we were ready,” he said. “I decided to take off my uniform and join my brothers and friends in the Mahdi Army. All these years, we were like a scream in the face of the dictator and the occupation.” He said: “I joined the police because I believed we have to protect Basra and save it with our own hands. You can see we were the first fighters to take on Sadd-am and his regime, the best example being the Shabaniya uprising.” Abu Iman said that the fighting raging in Basra yesterday was intense because the al-Mahdi Army was operating on its own turf. He was confident that the Shia militia would prevail because its cause was just. “The Iraqi Army is already defeated from within. They come to Basra with fear in their hearts, knowing they have to fight their brothers, the sons of Iraq, because of an order from Bush and his friends in the Iraq Government. For this reason, all of the battles are going in the Mahdi Army’s favour.” Major-General Abdelaziz Moham-med Jassim, the director of operations at the Ministry of Defence, played down reports of defections in the Basra police force. “The problem of one policeman doesn’t make up for the whole of the force,” he said. In recent months Major-General Abdul Jalil Khalaf, Basra’s police chief, has tried to shake up the force and drive out militia infiltrators, who have wrought havoc in the past, often turning police stations into torture cells in which factions settled vendettas and power struggles with murder and abuse. But he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a suicide car bomb attack in Basra killed three of his policemen. A local tribal leader said the police directorate building was later gutted by fire. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational
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[cia-drugs] BCCI and Terrorism Finance
BCCI and Terrorism Finance - Additions as of March 23, 2008 Most entries added this week deal with terrorism finance in general and the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in particular. Between 1979 and 1991, the US government received over 700 tips about criminal activities by BCCI, which repeatedly saved Pakistan from financial ruin and funneled money to A. Q. Khan’s nuclear program, but essentially ignored all 700 of them. BCCI dominated the supply chain of CIA supplies and weapons for the Afghan mujaheddin and was also used by the CIA to pay 500 British informants and for another slush fund, of which the CIA failed to notify US customs. The NSC gained a clear picture of BCCI’s criminal activities from CIA reports, but a US senator was kept in the dark about them. The Pakistani government allowed drug traffickers to use BCCI, which was linked to Osama bin Laden, and a huge munitions explosion towards the end of the Soviet-Afghan war hid the fact that that money for the mujaheddin was being diverted to A. Q. Khan. Elsewhere in terrorism finance, an address book recovered in a raid linked an al-Qaeda operative to a Saudi billionaire, the IIRO and the Muslim World League are part of the Saudi government according to testimony, and Persian Gulf sheikhs allegedly gave bin Laden US$ 50 million in a handy single transfer in 1999. The government of Saudi Arabia refused to help capture a key Hezboallah figure in 1996, made little effort to fight terrorism financing before 2002, and was still not properly overseeing charities in 2007. In addition, militant operatives were told to use a prominent Saudi bank and a known terrorism financier was removed from UN and US blacklists when he promised not to do it anymore. Imam Anwar Al Aulaqi, an associate of Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, was inexplicably allowed to leave the US in 2002, and arrested and let go in Yemen in 2007. The US finally determined he was linked to al-Qaeda in 2008. Miscellaneous new entries include the US monitoring a “very important source” in Sudan around the time of the 1998 embassy bombings, but letting two of the apparent bombers escape. A 1994 US intelligence report concluded Islamic militants would take power in Egypt, fighters were not ready to launch on 9/11 from Syracuse air base even after 10:00 a.m., the CIA tested an al-Qaeda training camp for chemical weapons in 2001, and an attack on oil facilities in Yemen was foiled in 2006. Finally, Presidents Reagan and Bush facilitated the Islamic bomb by repeatedly and falsely certifying Pakistan did not have a nuclear weapons program, despite knowing that it did. http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/news.jsp?oid=140393703-463 History Commons Projects, Update on March 27, 2008 The biggest chunk of new material this week is about terrorism finance in general and the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International in particular. The entries about BCCI focus on what the US knew about the bank's criminal activities before it collapsed-quite a lot it turns out-and the bank's connections to Pakistan's government and ISI intelligence agency. In the wider world of terrorism finance, more examples of Saudi Arabia's laissez faire attitude are documented. The 9/11 Timeline has also added two new categories dealing with the search for Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi in late August and early September 2001, and al-Qaeda in Italy. Read more The Loss of Civil Liberties Timeline has additional entries about NSA wiretapping, the Military Commissions Act, and the current Harriet Miers/Josh Bolton case. Read more The Occupation of Iraq Timeline points out that oversight of Pentagon contractors is down, and corruption, perhaps unsurprisingly, is up. Read more The Iran timeline has new entries about that country’s alleged nuclear program. Read more The Detainee Abuse Timeline has more on Alberto Gonzales, John McCain and President Bush. Read more Additional material has been added to the Watergate Timeline covering the Pentagon Papers, slush funds, and illegal surveillance. Read more
