Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise: 'We Were Too Dumb'
Source: Der Spiegel
Michael Flynn, 56, served in the United States Army for more than 30 years, most recently as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was the nation's highest-ranking military intelligence officer. Previously, he served as assistant director of national intelligence inside the Obama administration. From 2004 to 2007, he was stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, where, as commander of the US special forces, he hunted top al-Qaida terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the predecessors to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who today heads the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. After Flynn's team located Zarqawi's whereabouts, the US killed the terrorist in an air strike in June 2006.
In an interview, Flynn explains the rise of the Islamic State and how the blinding emotions of 9/11 led the United States in the wrong direction strategically.
Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-us-intelligence-chief-discusses-development-of-is-a-1065131.html
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)war is dumb.
jalan48
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(8,821 posts)"A hit! A palpable hit!"
bobthedrummer
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(26,083 posts)The Accidental Operative (Camelia Entekhabi-Fard & James Ridgeway 6-12-01 Village Voice article reposted 5-18-15 in CounterPunch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/18/the accidental-operative
The Odd Sad Case of Laili Zikria-Helms (Whitney Azoy Dec. 13, 2001 Bangor Daily News)
http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2001/12/13/the-odd-sad-case-of-laili-zikria-helms
No theory, a real conspiracy-JUST AS PLANNED BY TRAITORS.
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(28,858 posts).. in what was cowardly, crass, and opportunistic.