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US Special Forces Clash With CIA In War On Terror: Report
Mon Dec 18, 8:25 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US special forces operating overseas on secret missions have clashed with the CIA and carried out operations in countries that are staunch US allies, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website.

Citing unnamed senior intelligence and military officials, the newspaper reported that the clashes had prompted a push for tighter rules for military units engaged in espionage.

The spy missions are part of a highly classified program that officials say has better positioned the United States to track terrorist networks and capture or kill enemy operatives in regions such as the Horn of Africa, the report said.

But the initiative has also led to several embarrassing incidents for the United States, including a shootout in Paraguay and the exposure of a sensitive intelligence operation in East Africa, according to the paper.

In 2004, members of a special forces team operating in Paraguay shot and killed an armed assailant who tried to rob them outside a bar, The Times said.

US officials removed the members of the team from the country.

In another incident, members of a team in East Africa were arrested by the local government after their espionage activity was discovered.

"It was a compromised surveillance activity," the paper quotes a former senior CIA official as saying.

The official said members of the unit "got rolled up by locals, and we got them out." The former official declined to name the country or provide other details.

The paper said that some Central Intelligence Agency officials have complained that special forces have sometimes launched missions without informing the CIA, duplicating or even jeopardizing existing operations.

And they questioned deploying military teams in friendly nations -- including in Europe -- at a time when combat units are in short supply in war zones, the report said.

When asked to comment on the matter, Marine Major General Michael Ennis acknowledged "really egregious mistakes" in the program, but said collaboration has improved between the CIA and the military, the report said.

Special forces troops typically work in civilian clothes and function much like CIA case officers, cultivating sources in other governments or terrorist organizations, The Times said.

One objective, officials said, is to generate information that could be used to plan clandestine operations such as capturing or killing terrorism "suspects".

But it is not uncommon, said a former CIA official, for CIA station chiefs to learn of military intelligence operations only after they were under way, the paper reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usmilitaryciaintelligence

[Hollywoodaction]

I'd be ready to bet that the real reason the CIA is upset is because they didn't follow the usual methods, which probably involve sending Canadians or Brits instead to do the missions.

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This guy is a playah.

http://www.peterlance.com/Peter%20Lance/Home/Home.html

http://www.peterlance.com/Peter%20Lance/TRIPLE%20CROSS%20Timeline%20Part%20One.html

http://www.peterlance.com/Peter%20Lance/Ali%20Mohamed.html

"In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than a former Egyptian army captain turned CIA operative, Special Forces advisor, and FBI informant named Ali Mohamed. Spying first for the Central Intelligence Agency and later the FBI, Mohamed even succeeded in penetrating the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg�while simultaneously training the cell that blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. He went on to train Osama bin Laden�s personal bodyguard, and photographed the U.S. embassy in Kenya taking the surveillance pictures bin Laden himself used to target the suicide truck bomb that killed 224 and injured thousands in 1998.
Mohamed accomplished all that fully nine years after the FBI first photographed the cell he trained using automatic weapons at a firing range on Long Island. He lived the quiet life of a Silicon Valley computer executive while slipping off to Afghanistan and the Sudan to train some of al Qaeda�s most lethal terrorists in bomb-making and assassination tradecraft. He was so trusted by bin Laden that Ali was given the job of moving the Saudi �Emir� from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1991 and then back to Jalalabad in 1996�much of that time maintaining his status as an FBI informant who worked his Bureau control agent like a mole.
Mohamed twice played host to al Qaeda�s second-in-command, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who traveled to the U.S. in the 1990s to raise money for the Jihad. He used his Army vacation to hunt down elite Soviet Spetsnaz commandos in Afghanistan, and later toyed with gullible special agents in New York and San Francisco while he learned the inner workings of the FBI�s al Qaeda playbook. "

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