Newspaper: “CIA” reduce its presence in Iraq
Newspaper: “CIA” reduce its presence in Iraq
07/06/2012 12:59
Beirut, June 7 (Rn) – is the CIA “CIA” is preparing to reduce its presence in Iraq to less than half the levels of its presence during the war, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plan, and in a report on the subject linked newspaper “The Wall Street Journal, “the U.S. move to a large extent of the challenges facing the Agency in its work in a country no longer welcomes the American presence on its territory. the paper quoted U.S. officials as saying that “under plans that are still under consideration, the existence of” CIA “in Iraq will fall for up to 40% of the rates at which it had during the war, when Baghdad was the largest center for the operations of the CIA in the world with more than seven hundred people from its members in it. ” They said that “the Agency had already started to withdraw a number of its staff from Iraq at the height of the war , but the size reduction of this time would be great, and comes six months after the departure of U.S. troops from there. ” According to the newspaper, declined to officials, “said specific numbers or classification of employees who will be withdrawn and whether they are analysts or perpetrators of the covert operations, or disclosure of sites that will be deployed where the information is classified, all as confidential. ” The paper says that they based their arguments on the subject of downsizing that “the United States can benefit more from the presence of elements in other regions, which may include the hot spots of new terrorism such as Yemen, which is a center for al-Qaeda, which it regards the United States that poses the greatest threat to its national security, in addition to the State of Mali, where rumored unstable situation there is a state of anxiety. “The newspaper pointed out that this move by the “CIA” comes amid concerns the existence of possible loopholes in the networks of U.S. spy on the threat posed by al Qaeda in Iraq, and the plan of reduction as well as to reduce the presence of U.S. intelligence in the region at a time when Syria on the brink of civil war, amid fears of al-Qaeda to send his fighters to that country Iraq’s neighbors to fight against the Assad regime, according to officials of the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). ” also considered that “reduce the footprint of the intelligence part of the shift in broader relations US-Iraqi, coincides with the direction Washington cut diplomatic missions and tasks of training in this country.” from: Khalil Hebron, the Open: Joseph Karwan
Source: aknews
