Bulgarian Intelligence: Iraq Conflict Fuels Al Qaeda Menace

[leftchick]

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=43571

Iraq has become a recruiting ground for Al Qaeda, which is training agents, including Western nationals, and sending them home to set up networks or form sleeper cells, according to two France-based experts.

"There is very clear information on this," notably from Bulgarian intelligence, said Paris-based Algerian journalist Atmane Tazaghart, who is also a specialist on Islamic fundamentalist groups.

Tazaghart and Roland Jacquard, a leading French analyst who has worked for a UN terrorism panel make their assessment in a new 500-page book: "Bin Laden - the programmed destruction of the West".

The book argues that Al Qaeda is now capable of striking the West and its allies with chemical, biological and radiological weapons - so-called "dirty bombs" - that could wreak havoc on humans and the global economy.

"The crucible of Iraq is really becoming a recruitment ground ... Not everyone who arrives is allowed to fight in Iraq, but some are trained for 45 days or three months, and then they are asked to return home and set up logistics or financial networks, or sleeper cells," Tazaghart told journalists at a book presentation on Wednesday.

[Redstone]

1. Bulgarian intelligence?

That's what, a coupla guys with Radio Shack phone-line tape recorders?

Redstone

[ps1074]

3. For your info

During the cold war Bulgaria had the best intelligence in the communist block. Some say it was even better than KGB... Don't know how it is these days though :shrug:

[Redstone]

6. I know they used to be good

with the poison umbrellas and such. But I doubt the country is putting the kind of resources into spy stuff that they used to.

Redstone

[bobbyboucher]

12. Come on Redstone,

come clean.

[hang a left]

4. LOL n/t

[ps1074]

5. I am not kidding

I've read this in books and memoirs... You can laugh all you want, I am just saying something I've read :)

[Tempest]

8. The Pentagon came up with the same conclusions

You can find the report on the Internet.

[tabasco]

10. People are what matter in this type of intel gathering ...

not equipment. If the Bulgarians have one Islamic agent inside Al Qaeda, they are doing better than the entire US intelligence apparatus.

[physioex]

11. Yea....

Like the FBI and CIA are full of "intelligence". Good intelligence does not require a lot of technology. Just a lot dedicated people who are willing to do the job. Something this country has definelty been caught with its pants down.....

[Crackingham]

2. As though the whole world can't figure that out just fine on their own

[leftchick]

7. Guess what? MANY ameriKans still think

the chimpass* has made us safer!

Welcome to DU Crackingham!

:)

[Tempest]

9. I'm on a Yahoo board with one right now

He has yet to explain why he feels safer logically, just emotionally.

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