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WikiLeaks Releases Secret CIA 'Red Cell' Memo on American Terrorists Abroad
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Dana Chivvis
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(Aug. 25) -- Whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks released a CIA memo today that discusses the potential implications of foreigners viewing the United States as an "exporter of terrorism" instead of just a victim of terrorism. The memo, which was prepared by the CIA group called "Red Cell," adds that the phenomenon of Americans acting as terrorists in other countries is not a new development.
The potential implications include:
1. Foreign countries request information on or rendition of American citizens thought to be terrorists. If the U.S. government doesn't agree to the requests, relations between the countries could become strained and could lead to "those governments refusing to allow the U.S. to extract terrorist suspects from their soil."
2. Foreign countries secretly "extract" Americans from American soil if the U.S. government refuses to extradite them.
3. Foreign governments decide the U.S. gets more than it gives when it comes to renditions. In response, they tighten up their own consent to American requests for detention. The memo notes that, "As a recent victim of high-profile terrorism originating from abroad, the U.S. government has had significant leverage to press foreign regimes to acquiesce to requests for extraditing terrorist suspects from their soil."
4. If the U.S. refuses to provide information on American citizens who are considered to be terrorists by a foreign government, the foreign government could play a game of tit-for-tat, refusing to provide information about their citizens suspected of terrorism.
The memo also reviews recent cases of American terrorists acting abroad, including:
1. Five Muslim-American men from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan in December while en route to an al-Qaida and Taliban training camp in North Waziristan. They were sentenced to 10 years of labor in a Pakistani prison in June.
2. Pakistani-American David Headley, born Daood Gilani, conducted surveillance for Lakshar-i-Tayyiba, the group that laid siege to Mumbai in 2008, killing 166 people.
3. Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish-American doctor from New York, who shot and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1995.
4. Irish-Americans provided financial and material support for militants in Northern Ireland from the 1880s to the 1980s, when the U.S. government cracked down on American support for the Irish Republican Army, according to the memo.
The Red Cell memo also expresses concern that al-Qaida is increasingly recruiting Americans to operate as terrorists overseas by using social media sites and blogs.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks founder and public spokesman Julian Assange was just cleared of all the sex crime allegations that surfaced against him over the weekend.
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