Re: [Marxism] CIA: German agents in Iraq "gave us direct support. They gave us information for targeting"

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:58:35 +1100 (EST), Nobby wrote:

  A news item on the latest scandal in Berlin.

  I wonder from which source this information did come. Everybody talks
about it, but I don't know who was the first one.

  And what a concidence: a day before US-american foreign minister C.
Rice was traveling to Berlin to meed the new German prime minister, A.
Merkel, the Washington Post published the story how the US ambassador to
Berlin informed last May the then German minister of interior, O. Schily
about the kidnapping of German citizen Khaled al Masri, this latter
story about the BND in Baghdad is being released the day before Merkel
started her trip to Washington to meet the US-president.

   Is this really a coincidence or does somebody persue some intention
with those releases?


> By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's foreign intelligence agency  denied on
Thursday a report that its spies in Baghdad had  helped U.S. warplanes
select bombing targets during the  invasion of Iraq, which the Berlin
government had strongly  opposed.

>   FOREIGN MINISTER UNDER PRESSURE

>   The report threatened to embarrass Foreign Minister  Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, who as chief of staff to then  Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
had oversight of the security  services at the time.

>   The opposition is already piling pressure on the  government,
especially foreign minister Steinmeier, over the  role of Germany's
security services in the U.S.-led war on  terrorism.
>   It emerged last month that German security officials had  questioned
a German-Syrian terrorist suspect in a Syrian prison  in 2002 at a time
when the government had told his lawyer it  had no idea of its
whereabouts and had no access to him.
>   Steinmeier was also forced last month to defend the  previous
government's handling of the case of Khaled el-Masri,  a German citizen
who was held by the United States for five  months in an Afghan prison
before being released in May 2004.



Yours,

Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
--------------------------------
visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German

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