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INTELLIGENCE ISSN 1245-2122
N. 469, 28 November 2005
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, N. 469, 28 November 2005
FRONT PAGE
USA - IRAQ WAR BEING FOUGHT IN WASHINGTON p.1
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES
TIMELINE FROM 7 NOVEMBER TO 24 NOVEMBER p.2 "TECH-FIX" UK-US PUBLIC
TRANSPORT ANTI-TERRORISM p.3
PEOPLE
GREAT BRITAIN - CHRISTOPHER MEYER p.4
NORTHERN IRELAND - ANDRE KHALED SHOUKRI p.5 RUSSIA - BORIS BEREZOVSKY p.6
AGENDA
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 19 JANUARY 2006 p.7
INTELLIGENCE AROUND THE WORLD
USA - TORTURE NOT EFFECTIVE, BUT WE'RE KEEPING IT p.8
- DOD ADMITS USE OF WHITE PHOSPHORUS IN IRAQ p.9
- "PLAMEGATE" STAYS IN THE HEADLINES p.10 GREAT BRITAIN - DE MENEZES
MURDER INQUIRY BROADENED p.11
- TWO CHARGED FOR IRAQ WAR LEAKS p.12 NORTHERN IRELAND -
COLLUSION DISCLOSED AND IGNORED p.13 WESTERN EUROPE - CIA KIDNAPPINGS UNDER
INVESTIGATION p.14 RUSSIA - FSB COUNTER-TERROR'S TRIP ABROAD p.15 IRAQ - THE
WAR IN THE STREETS & IN THE FIELD p.16
- BEYOND THE SHOOTING WAR & WASHINGTON p.17 CHINA - THE MSS TARGETS THE
US & BRITAIN p.18
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Intelligence, N. 469, 28 November 2005, p. 2
TIMELINE FROM 7 NOVEMBER TO 24 NOVEMBER
Two weeks ago, we stated that "the Rove-Libby scandal and the
Cheney-Rumsfeld claim to the 'right to torture' are engulfing and bring down
the Bush White House". With "Scooter" Libby indicted, that particular
scandal is now of secondary importance compared to the continued demanded of
Vice President Richard Cheney to torture people. The US "Vice President for
Torture" is currently sharing the media spotlight with major Washington
political actors who are openly calling for the withdrawal of US troops from
Iraq and an end of the "occupation" and "unwinnable war". Corruption
scandals (Abramoff, Frist and DeLay), the Rove-Libby-"Plamegrate"
scandal, and the falsification of pre-invasion intelligence on Iraq all
remain important in the media and continue to develop, but are just behind
torture and withdrawal from Iraq as leading intelligence and security
topics. In reaction to these developments, the Bush White House is simply
"digging in", blatantly denying the implications of more and more leaked
information, and aggressively attacking all critics. In short, nothing new
as the Bush White House slowly sinks and Congress starts taking back its
role in governing the United States.
Clearly associated with these two dominant topics, there are an increasing
set of related problems. The topic of torture is associated with hunger
strikes at Gitmo, the failed "dirty bomb" trial of Padilla, and CIA secret
prisons and flights throughout the world. The topic of ending the Iraq War
is associated with the use of white phosphorus bombs in Fallujah, the
sectarian Iraqi civil war, and the failure of the Blair government in
Britain (and blaming France... as usual). Blair, by the way, is supposed to
be showing the European Union how to abandon its outdated and dysfunctional
"model" and adopt Tony Blair's new and modern "model" for a successful
nation... while the EU investigates possible secret CIA prisons and the
British press leaks like its have never done before.
The "other conflicts" which had all become minor topics a month ago -- the
Iraq War itself, the Iranian nuclear program, the Israel-Palestine conflict,
the continuing war in Afghanistan, and the North Korean nuclear program --
have almost disappeared from the headlines.
Since our 5 September issue, we have transferred most of the detailed
headline listings, which previously figured in individual articles in
"Intelligence", to this double-section timeline article. The first section
consists of the 100-some most significant entries without references or
added details.
The second section is the complete daily entries with references and
additional details. Both are emailed separately.
This format reduces the length of our other articles while providing more
detailed and continuous timelines.
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MAJOR EVENTS AND REPORTS
1104 Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin
1107
- Order to kill de Menezes (in London Metro) was "never given"
- Tony Blair and the wooing of America (Sir Christopher Meyer)
- Blair's litany of failures on Iraq (Meyer memoirs)
- Negroponte Won't Back Cheney on Torture
- Is Torture an Effective Anti-Terror Tactic?
1108
- Iraq's hidden casualty toll runs into thousands
- We do not torture detainees, says Bush
- Blair blames France for Iraq war (in reply to Meyer)
- US forces "used chemical weapons" during assault on Fallujah
- US Severs Most Contacts with Syria, debate "regime change"
- 5 Gitmo Detainees to Face Military Court
- GOP Leadership Consider Leak Probe (CIA secret prisons)
- Kansas Votes to Teach Intelligent Design in Schools
1109
- FSB Official Says Banks, Firms, and Islamic Organizations Funding Terror
in Russia
- Leak Inquiry Sought in Secret Prison Story
- French Cabinet Issues State-of-Emergency Decree
- CIA Asks Criminal Inquiry over Secret-Prison Article
- Blair Suffers Major Defeat on Terror Bill
- Judith Miller Retires from "New York Times"
- US Criticized for Use of Phosphorus in Fallujah Raids
- Pentagon Probes Treatment of "Able Danger" Officer
- Rumsfeld Can Authorize Torture under New Directive
1110
- Qaida Group Claims Jordan's Triple Suicide Bombings
- UN report slams torture practices
- Lobbyist (Jack Abramoff) Sought $9 Million to Set Bush Meeting
- An Army Ready to Snap
- Blair's Authority in Doubt after Defeat on Terror Bill
- Rummy's Scapegoat, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski
- Newsweek, Al-Libi's Tall Tales (before the Iraq war)
- US Created al-Zarqawi Myth
1111
- Scout Report, The Torture Question
- Senate Approves Limiting Rights of US Detainees
- Bush Disputes Charges of Intelligence Misuse in War
- Senate Call for "CIA Jail" Report
- US "Can't Maintain Iraq Troop Levels"
1112
- Democrats Provided Edge on Detainee Vote
- Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize
- Ramadi: US Strikes Leave 50 Dead in Rubble
1113
- Profiling: How the FBI Tracks Eco-Terror Suspects
- Torture's Terrible Toll, tactics produce bad intel
- "We Do Not Torture" and Other Funny Stories
- White House Declines to Totally Rule Out Torture
- Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role
1114
- Christopher Meyer Interview
- France Extends State of Emergency Following Rioting
- Afghanistan - Carbomb Rammed Into NATO Troops
- The Militarization of the Iranian Government
- UN, Torture and the fight against terror
- Iraq Reconciliation Talks in Cairo
- Spain Looks into CIA's Handling of Detainees
- Mexico to Sever Venezuela Diplomatic Ties
- "I Was Wrong" (about invading Iraq), former Senator John Edwards
- 9/11 Body Attacks White House
- Former Iraqi Detainees Allege Torture by US Troops
- Arbitrary detentions, secret prisons, torture
- Bush Rewrites History to Criticize His Anti-War Critics
1115
- Cooking the Books and Politicizing Intelligence
- "I Treated People Who Had Their Skin Melted" (in Fallujah)
- White Phosphorus, Fallujah and Some Burning Questions
- Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials (on invading Iraq)
- US Troops Used Lions in Torture
- Yellowcake to "Plamegate", mishandled intelligence
- Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq
- Senate Republicans Block Iraq Timetable
- Iraq Inquiry Says Detainees Appear to Have Been Tortured
- Former US Army Interrogator Describes the Harsh Techniques He Used in Iraq
- Row over CIA Camps Heats Up in Europe
- US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq -- and Lied about It
- "There's Already Civil War in Iraq!"
- Crisis scenarios for deflecting attention from the President's woes
- Iraqi Guards Seen as Death Squads
- Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights
- UK tries to form coalition to fight in Afghanistan
1116
- BBC, White phosphorus; The Pentagon's confirmation
- Debunking Prewar Intelligence Falsehoods
- FEMA Gives Eviction Notice to 150,000 Staying in Hotels
- Senate Presses for Concrete Steps toward Troop Withdrawal
- Torture Alleged at Ministry Site outside Baghdad
- 173 Prisoners Found Tortured and Starved in Iraq Government Bunker
- Woodward Was Told of Plame More than Two Years Ago
- Document Says Oil Chiefs Met with Cheney Task Force
- AP, Pentagon Used White Phosphorus in Iraq
- Bill Clinton Calls Iraq "Big Mistake"
- The Big Lie Technique (supposed Qaida-Iraq link)
- On War, Senate Flexes Muscle
- Tentative Deal on Patriot Act Curbs FBI's Power
1117
- Democrats Have Proof Pre-War Intel Was Manipulated
- More Problems at Gitmo (hunger strikes)
- NYT, A Timetable for Mr. Bush
- Influential Democratic Hawk Calls for Immediate Iraq Exit
- War in Iraq, Congressman John Murtha
- Soldier (Katherine Jashinski) Refuses Military Role
1118
- Military Body Armor Recalled (Again)
- Radical President Reportedly Packing Iran Government With More Radicals
- Iraq: UN wants probe of detainee treatment
- Cheney "Vice President for Torture"
- Hawkish Cheney Renews Attack But Attracts Only Flak
- Vital Military Jobs Go Unfilled
- Fitzgerald Going Back to Grand Jury
- Mobilization against American Apathy about Torture
- Bombers Kill at Least 70 inside Two Shiite Mosques in Iraq
- Iran Gives UN Bomb Part Instructions
1119
- Iraq Cannot Be Won, Rep. John Murtha
- Lawmakers Focus on Daily Brief in Prewar Intelligence Debate
- Boston Globe, Patriot Act Extension Shelved
- Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout
- Bombs Kill Five US Soldiers in Iraq
- Ex-Salvadoran Colonel (Nicolas Carranza) Is Ordered to Pay for Crimes
against Humanity
1120
- IAEA Says Iran Got "Blueprints For Nuclear bomb Core"
- Corruption Inquiry (Jack Abramoff) Threatens to Ensnare (GOP) Lawmakers
- How US Fell under the Spell of "curveball"
- German Intelligence Slams Bush Administration on Pre-War Intel
- British-Trained Police in Iraq "Killed Prisoners with Drills"
1121
- Sharon Seeks Elections and Plans Withdrawal from Likud Party
- Russian Troops Confess to Murder of (three) Chechen Civilians
- Powell Aide: Torture "Guidance" from VP
- White House Used "Gossip" to Build Case for War
- CIA's "Torture Taxi" in the Spotlight
- In the Senate, a Chorus of Three Defies the Line
- Cheney Attempts to Tie Iraq to 9-11 Again
1122
- Europe Moves Toward Delay of Iran Referral
- UN, Documents reveal Guatemala's troubled past
- Blair "Convinced Bush" Not to Launch Strike at al-Jazeera
- Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable
- Dems Win McCain's Backing (on pre-invasion intel)
- EU Wants Clarification on CIA Camps
- AP, US Death Toll Reaches 2,100
- Dirty Bomb Suspect Padilla Indicted
- Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept from Hill Panel
- Iraq: A call for timetable for foreign troop withdrawal
1123
- Bush Told No Iraq-9/11 Connection 10 Days after Attack
- How Pre-War Iraq Intel Was Cooked (Office of Special Plans)
- Legal Gag on Bush-Blair War Row
- Ending the Iraq War
- MPs seek independent inquiry into Iraq war
- Straw asks US to answer claims that it runs secret jails for terror
suspects
1124
- Thirty Iraqi Civilians Killed in Massive Car Bomb Explosion
- US Soldier, Afghan Interpreter Killed by Roadside Bomb
- Fury over Gagging Threat "to Spare Bush's Blushes"
- Another former Blair aide speaks out over going to war in Iraq
- cryptome.org, CIA WMD Fix (major set of documents)
- Britain - Families go to court to demand public inquiry on Iraq war
- Torture claims "forced US to cut terror charges" (against Jose Padilla)
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DETAILED DAILY ENTRIES
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AGENDA
Intelligence, N. 469, 28 November 2005, p. 7
COMING EVENTS THROUGH 19 JANUARY 2006
27-30 November, Houston, Texas, IEEE Computer Society, Fifth International
Conference on Data Mining, www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/
28-29 November, London, SMI, Future of Unmanned Vehicles,
www.smi-online.co.uk
28-29 November, London, IQPC, Stealth Conference,
www.defenceiq.com/gb-2511:diary
29 November, Arlington, Virginia, NDIA, Missile Defense Quarterly Luncheon,
www.ndia.org
30 November-1 December, Brussels, Belgium, NATO C3 Board.
1-2 December, Las Vegas, Nevada, TTC, Defense Geospatial Systems Conference,
www.ttcus.com
5-9 December, Tucson, Arizona, Annual Computer Security Applications
Conference, www.acsac.org
6-8 December, El Paso, Texas, AUSA, Space & Missile Defense Symposium,
www.ausa.org
8 December, Washington(?), MSBDC, International Traffic in Arms Regulations,
www.mas.gov/export
14-15 December, Washington, Institute for Foreign Policy, National Security
Strategy & Policy, www.ifpafletcherconference.com
6 January, deadline for presentation for the Symposium on the Security of
Information and Communications Technologies (SSTIC 06), Rennes, France, 31
May-2 June 2006, www.sstic.org
19 January, London, Royal Aeronautical Society, Annual Corporate Partner
Seminar, "Aerospace - The Year Ahead", www.raes.org.uk
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