Professor John Yoo recommends creating a fake terrorist organization
In a commentary in the LA Times, conservative law professor John Yoo (who as you recall, helped draft the Yoo/Delahunty/Philbin Memos to the White House on the Geneva Convention that defined torture for the administration) describes the entity as Al Qaeda as a network that can only be countered by an offensive course of action for the war on terror. One possible way he proposes to do this, though, is with a fake terrorist organization.
Another tool would have our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within Al Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.
Just what we needed, more deception from the government.
(found via Metafilter)
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Those memos did not define torture. Instead, they provided a legal argument as to why members of terrorist organizations were not parties to, and not covered by, the Geneva Conventions.
Comment by Anonymous — July 17, 2005 @ 12:42 am
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Professor John Yoo has an interesting piece in the LA Times, applying network theory to terrorist groups:
A pyramid-shaped hierarchy would have collapsed after suffering the kinds of losses inflicting by the armed forces and the CIA — thousands of …
Trackback by california patriot blog — July 17, 2005 @ 2:27 am
anyone hear anything about the girl that got shot outside davidson? cops were out there (the body was still there) at around 2am sat night.
Comment by Anonymous — July 17, 2005 @ 2:57 am