September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

It should come as no surprise that Israeli intelligence has played a key role in the Iraqi
invasion and prisoner interrogation.
“Israeli interrogators are working in tandem with the US-led occupation troops in detention facilities
across Iraq, a senior US officer revealed Saturday, July 4. Brig Gen Janis Karpinski, the US officer at
the heart of the Abu Gharib prison scandal, said she herself met an Israeli interrogator at a secret
intelligence center in Baghdad [Israel Continues Interrogation Work in Iraq, Islamonline.net & News
Agencies , 7/15/2004]
“Seymour Hersh said that one of the Israeli aims was to gain access to detained members of the Iraqi
secret intelligence unit, who reportedly specialize in Israeli affairs. Hersh further unveiled on June 22
that Israeli intelligence and military operatives were now quietly at work in northern Iraq, providing
training for Kurdish commando units and running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and
Syria. The report added that Mossad operatives work undercover in northern Iraq as businessmen and
in some cases do not carry Israeli passports.” [Israel Continues Interrogation Work in Iraq,
Islamonline.net & News Agencies, 7/15/2004]
"One of Staphanovic's co-workers, Joe Ryan - who was not named in the Taguba report - now says that
he underwent an "Israeli interrogation course" before going to Iraq.” [Israeli Mossad/Shin Bet
Associated with Prison Torture, Robert Fisk, 5/26/2004]
One of the key linkages in this Israeli involvement is CACI. CACI is linked to the 9/11
conspirators through Richard Armitage. Richard Armitage was Board member of CACI
from 1999 to 2001, and a key participant in most of the activities shown to be relevant to
the 9/11 attack: Iran-Contra, Azerbaijan covert operations, arms shipments to
Afghanistan, the PNAC. Through the years, he has had a relationship with David
Kimche of the Mossad.
“So who is Richard Armitage? None other than a former board member of CACI--the private
contractor that employed four interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison--interrogators who worked with the
205th Military Intelligence Brigade there.” [Richard Armitage and CACI: What's Behind the Attacks
on Australia's Latham? David Palmer]
Members of the Board of CACI have also been documented as having close relations
with the Israeli defense organization.
“Both Titan and CACI have directors with strong ties to the Israeli military establishment.
The director of Titan with the largest stake in the company is Edward H. Bersoff, who received the
Distinguished Leadership Award by the Washington Chapter of the American Jewish Committee in
1999. Bersoff has been an honored speaker at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, along with
the likes of Sharon’s right-wing ally Binjamin Netanyahu.
On January 14, Dr. J.P. (Jack) London, chairman, president, and CEO of CACI International, flew to
Israel to receive the Albert Einstein Technology Award from the Jerusalem Fund. The award was
presented by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Uri Lupolianski, Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox
Jewish Mayor at a ceremony in the occupied city on January 14, 2004.
“Titan's linguist contract with the U.S. Army” was noted as a “primary driver” behind the companies
increased revenues. The only language tool Titan offers on its website is for “Levantine Arabic,” i.e.
the Arabic spoken in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Last July, however, Titan Systems Corporation of
Fairfax, Va., placed an ad for “native Arabic, Aramaic, Kurdish, Persian, Pashto, Turkish and Dari
speakers.” Titan’s ad for interpreters required the native speakers be U.S. citizens and fluent in
English. It is extremely unlikely that any native speaker of Arabic would be named “John Israel.”
[Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib? Christopher Bollyn – Rumor Mill News May 6, 2004]
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