Pentagon's secret unit helps capture Saddam Hussein
www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-25 10:42:42
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A secret intelligence unit created within the US Defense Department after the Sept. 11 attacks helped capture former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in December 2003, news reports said Monday.
The unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, had a hidden hand in interrogations and identifying clues inside Iraq that narrowed the search for Saddam Hussein and led to his capture, the reports said.
The unit's existence was first revealed by The Washington Post on Sunday.
Quoting interviews with participants and documents it obtained,the Post said the Pentagon has created a previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic Support Branch, which arose from (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's written order to end his "near total dependence on CIA" for what it known as human intelligence.
The unit, which was designed to operate without detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations forces and has been operating in secret for two years, in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, the report said.
The Pentagon issued a statement on Sunday to dispute the Post report.
"There is no unit that is directly reportable to the secretary of defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article of January 23, 2005" and the department "is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities," Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said in the statement.
DiRita acknowledged that the Pentagon was attempting to improve its human intelligence capability, in the Defense Human Intelligence Service, a component of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He said that before the Sept. 11 commission issued its final report last year concluding that the country's human intelligence capability must be improved, the Defense Human Intelligence Service had taken steps "to make better human intelligence capability available to assist combatant commanders for specific missions involving regular or special operations forces."
My Thoughts:
"The unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, had a hidden hand in interrogations and identifying clues inside Iraq that narrowed the search for Saddam Hussein and led to his capture, the reports said."
This group is obviously "Military Intelligence" which in the realm of all the wars America has fought, has always existed apart from the CIA.
So Question: Is the Media Elite, who feel they must "out" our men and women who are trying to cut the carnage off now, not later not after one more American soldier, one more Iraqi citizen, is blown up into pieces, or slaughtered, acting in treason? What is their purpose and who are they to point the way to those of us who are living in the "clear and present danger to ending terrorism in Iraq before it ends another American life?
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A secret intelligence unit created within the US Defense Department after the Sept. 11 attacks helped capture former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in December 2003, news reports said Monday.
The unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, had a hidden hand in interrogations and identifying clues inside Iraq that narrowed the search for Saddam Hussein and led to his capture, the reports said.
The unit's existence was first revealed by The Washington Post on Sunday.
Quoting interviews with participants and documents it obtained,the Post said the Pentagon has created a previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic Support Branch, which arose from (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's written order to end his "near total dependence on CIA" for what it known as human intelligence.
The unit, which was designed to operate without detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations forces and has been operating in secret for two years, in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, the report said.
The Pentagon issued a statement on Sunday to dispute the Post report.
"There is no unit that is directly reportable to the secretary of defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article of January 23, 2005" and the department "is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities," Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said in the statement.
DiRita acknowledged that the Pentagon was attempting to improve its human intelligence capability, in the Defense Human Intelligence Service, a component of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He said that before the Sept. 11 commission issued its final report last year concluding that the country's human intelligence capability must be improved, the Defense Human Intelligence Service had taken steps "to make better human intelligence capability available to assist combatant commanders for specific missions involving regular or special operations forces."
My Thoughts:
"The unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, had a hidden hand in interrogations and identifying clues inside Iraq that narrowed the search for Saddam Hussein and led to his capture, the reports said."
This group is obviously "Military Intelligence" which in the realm of all the wars America has fought, has always existed apart from the CIA.
So Question: Is the Media Elite, who feel they must "out" our men and women who are trying to cut the carnage off now, not later not after one more American soldier, one more Iraqi citizen, is blown up into pieces, or slaughtered, acting in treason? What is their purpose and who are they to point the way to those of us who are living in the "clear and present danger to ending terrorism in Iraq before it ends another American life?
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