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c double · 08-06-04, 05:59 PM

article about some interesting proposals by defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, a real winner no doubt working longside Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5570015/site/newsweek/

"The memo's content, NEWSWEEK has learned, was in part the product of ideas from a two-man secret Pentagon intelligence unit appointed by Feith after 9/11: veteran defense analyst Michael Maloof and Mideast expert David Wurmser, now a top foreign-policy aide to Dick Cheney. Maloof and Wurmser saw links between international terror groups that the CIA and other intelligence agencies dismissed. They argued that an attack on terrorists in South America—for example, a remote region on the border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where intelligence reports said Iranian-backed Hizbullah had a presence—would have ripple effects on other terrorist operations. The proposals were floated to top foreign-policy advisers. But White House officials stress they were regarded warily and never adopted."

bfp · 08-06-04, 06:16 PM

This is nothing new. There are proposals drawn up all throughout the Pentagon. They're a think tank that draws up plans to fight our enemies. This is just one of many that was leaked. It doesn't mean that we would've taken action, or wanted to take action, etc.

Things are drawn up with pieces of evidence that may include links between one another. If it doesn't seem credible, it's destroyed or put on the shelf until further notice.

Who knows.

kezarmyaj · 08-06-04, 09:19 PM

read about this in the dallas paper this morning. interesting stuff.

08-06-04, 05:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
c double Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 430	Secret Proposals: Fighting Terror by Attacking ... South America? article about some interesting proposals by defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, a real winner no doubt working longside Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5570015/site/newsweek/ "The memo's content, NEWSWEEK has learned, was in part the product of ideas from a two-man secret Pentagon intelligence unit appointed by Feith after 9/11: veteran defense analyst Michael Maloof and Mideast expert David Wurmser, now a top foreign-policy aide to Dick Cheney. Maloof and Wurmser saw links between international terror groups that the CIA and other intelligence agencies dismissed. They argued that an attack on terrorists in South America—for example, a remote region on the border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where intelligence reports said Iranian-backed Hizbullah had a presence—would have ripple effects on other terrorist operations. The proposals were floated to top foreign-policy advisers. But White House officials stress they were regarded warily and never adopted."

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08-06-04, 06:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
bfp Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: McKidney Posts: 4,278	This is nothing new. There are proposals drawn up all throughout the Pentagon. They're a think tank that draws up plans to fight our enemies. This is just one of many that was leaked. It doesn't mean that we would've taken action, or wanted to take action, etc. Things are drawn up with pieces of evidence that may include links between one another. If it doesn't seem credible, it's destroyed or put on the shelf until further notice. Who knows.

08-06-04, 09:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
kezarmyaj Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: hobo central Posts: 1,464	read about this in the dallas paper this morning. interesting stuff.