"Former" CIA agent Ray McGovern: 'Taliban poses no security threat to US'
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:34:02 GMT
Former CIA agent Ray McGovern
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In an exclusive interview with Press TV, former CIA agent
Ray McGovern said that the Taliban does not pose any threat
to US national security.
In a reference to Wednesday's attack against a US military
base in eastern Afghanistan which killed seven CIA
operatives, McGovern said that the CIA operatives should not
have been there because the Taliban do not pose any security
threats to United States.
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Forward
Operating Base Chapman, which was hit by an attack on
Wednesday, was used by US spies.
It added the US sources confirmed that all the dead and
injured were probably CIA employees or contractors.
McGovern said the CIA employees and contractors are in
Afghanistan mainly because of the natural gas fields in
Turkmenistan and the oil pipeline that needs to pass through
Afghanistan.
He went on to say that he made the conclusion based on
documents that he obtained from Enron Corporation, which was
supposed to build a pipeline bringing gas and oil from
Turkmenistan and passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Thus, the NATO and CIA presence in Afghanistan is neither
for US national security nor for making Afghanistan safer,
but to guarantee the delivery of oil and gas from
Turkmenistan, McGovern added.
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Taliban say they killed 7 CIA agents, 5 Canadians
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:52:21 GMT
Canadian soldiers patrol in the southern city of Kandahar on
December 31.
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The Taliban claim they have killed seven CIA agents and five
Canadians in separate bombings in Afghanistan.
In two separate attacks on Wednesday, seven CIA officers
were killed and six wounded on a US base in Khost in eastern
Afghanistan. The five Canadians, including a woman
journalist, were killed in Kandahar on the same day.
Khost and Kandahar are located near Helmand, which is the
opium capital of Afghanistan.
Reports on Thursday also said that two French journalists
had been kidnapped by suspected Taliban militants in eastern
Afghanistan, but did not say when.
The Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid confirmed by
telephone from an undisclosed location that the Taliban has
taken "responsibility" for both the attacks.
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