29-07-2010, 04:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-07-2010, 07:12 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Ed Jewett Wrote:WikiLeaks Report Fictitious, Says Pakistan's Ex-Spy Chief Hamid Gul
(snip)
WikiLeaks' release of classified US documents include claims that Pakistan's former spy chief Hamid Gul ordered attacks against NATO troops. Mr. Gul speaks with the Monitor about the WikiLeaks reports.
This is pisspoor headline writing.
Indeed, it's possibly deliberately designed to mislead.
Wikileaks is simply publishing formerly classified US intelligence reports.
Gul is NOT claiming that the "wikileaks report" is fictitious.
He is asserting that the claims made by US and NATO intelligence in those US documents are fictitious.
In other words, that the US and NATO are still making intelligence claims which have no substance.
As he makes clear below:
Quote: Islamabad, Pakistan -- The former chief of Pakistan’s spy agency has derided as “malicious, fictitious, and preposterous” the leaked United States military documents implicating him in a string of attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(snip)
“This is utter nonsense,” Mr. Gul says in a telephone interview. Asked to respond to the various WikiLeaks reports in which his name appears, he replied: "Malicious, fictitious, and preposterous – and if this is the condition of US intelligence, then I am afraid it is no wonder they are losing in Afghanistan, and they will lose everywhere they try to poke their nose."
However, the presence of these spurious US/NATO intelligence claims in the formerly classified US documents has enabled the NYT in particular to spin the story.
Rather than examining the alleged death squad activities of TF 373, the NYT and MSM is able to concentrate on these "fictitious" (in Gul's words) allegations that Pakistan is secretly supporting the Afghan Taliban.
This is not the fault of wikileaks, other than in choosing the NYT as one of the three MSM organs allowed exclusive early access to the US documents.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war