Reply #52: He was used by the CIA/FBI/NSA to recruit, track, and monitor the others

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We'll never know how much he knew all those years he operated within CIA-sponsored Jihadist groups about those who were manipulating him, because he's dead.

The FBI had been watching Derwish and a group of militants living in the Boston area since the mid-1990s. His identity and activities were well known to US intelligence. See,

Kamal Derwish Kamal Derwish was a participant or observer in the following events: .... The letter is assigned to FBI agent Edward Needham, the only Buffalo agent at this ...
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=kamal_derwish - Cached - Similar

Complete 911 Timeline: Possible Al-Qaeda-Linked Moles or Informants Some GIA moles are turned into agent provocateurs. .... 6/26/2004] Apparently, al-Qaeda recruiter Kamal Derwish also works at the same Boston taxi company, ...
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline... - Cached - Similar

Derwish is an important piece of the 9/11 puzzle because he was the American conduit between a key USS Cole planner, Bin Laden, and the Lackawana 6 cell which he created. An excellent overview of the role played by such operatives:

setting people up is not limited to John Ashcroft's Justice Department and Robert Mueller's FBI -- the Pentagon wants to get in on the action with something called P2OG, or Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group. P2OG would roll together CIA and military covert ops personnel (a "robust, global cadre of retirees, reservists and others who are trained and qualified to serve on short notice, including expatriates") who will work to "stimulate reactions" among those deemed terrorists by the Bushites. After setting up so-called terrorists the US military would "counterattack," i.e., kill them (no messy extradition or legal procedures required; think Kamal Derwish, a US citizen, killed in Yemen by the judge, jury, and executioner of a CIA-launched Hellfire missile for the crime of riding in a car with Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, supposedly the "mastermind" behind the alleged al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole).

If you think P2OG would be confined to faraway lands where terrorists run free, think again -- and take note of the above-mentioned integration of the CIA and FBI currently underway across America. If Mossad can off its enemies in America, why not the CIA? If onetime CIA director Bush Senior can give a wink and a nod to Pinochet's Operation Condor -- which resulted in the car bombing murders of Chilean dissident Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt -- why not carte blanche for the all-American P2OG from Maine to California?

Consider Operation CHAOS, the illegal snooping by the CIA on law-abiding American citizens in the late 60s (in direct violation of their charter). As Verne Lyon writes, "n the classified document creating the DOD the scope of its activities was to 'exercise centralized responsibility for the direction, support, and coordination of clandestine operational activities within the United States,'" activities kept secret from Congress and the hoodwinked American people. In other words, we have no clear idea of the full extent of Operation CHAOS covert ops (if these were anything like CIA ops elsewhere, people not only lost their jobs, but often their lives).

Beyond the shores of America, the CIA financed and encouraged the torture, disappearance, and murder of "socialists and communists" (i.e., people who disagreed with US-supported ruling elites and military dictatorships) in Guatemala, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Bolivia, Chile, and elsewhere. Keep in mind that the current crop of far right wing types in the Bush White House and Pentagon sharpened their teeth on Iran-Contra, a covert op with CIA participation (two CIA agents, Clair George and Duane Clarridge were indicted for lying to Congress in the scandal).

Finally, it pays to remember REX 84, the CIA-inspired plan concocted by the NSC's Oliver North and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) calling for the suspension of the Constitution under a number of scenarios (such as war) and included the establishment of 50 State Defense Forces, to be composed of members of local law enforcement and military reserve agencies, who would round up and detain political dissenters (for more on REX 84, see Ross Gelbspan, Break-ins, Death Threats, and the FBI, South End Press).

As the expeditious passage of the USA PATRIOT Act (USAPA) demonstrates, the Bush administration is serious about the surveillance of those they consider political enemies. Since not many phantom al-Qaeda terrorists are using the internet (regardless of what "US officials" say about internet cafes in Peshawar) or phones to plot their nefarious deeds, the logical conclusion is the FBI and CIA will use USAPA primarily against American citizens. As with COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS, the idea is to "disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and neutralize" (as J. Edgar Hoover put it) the opposition with an onslaught of wiretaps, undercover plants, agent provocateurs, poison pen letters, black bag jobs, and other scurrilous tactics. - http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo02012003.html