American terrorism: the weathermen, tim mcveigh, abortion clinic bombings and dr slayings, envrio-whacks raiding animal test facilities and setting dealership lots on fire.

Nope, no see much export for that. Oh wait, there’s always Blackwater/Xe, and their evangelical “tenth crusader” founders, but that connection’s coming from Alex Jones and Hamid Gul of the ISI from a live interview last week. Is that what they perchance mean by “exporting terorism”?

“The report looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US based or financed Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorists.”

Okay, now let’s take out part of “based or financed” conjunction and see what it’s saying:

“The report looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US FINANCED Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorist.”

Explanation: We regularly finance terrorists.

Here’s the second and third most important points:

It concludes that foreign perceptions of the US as an “Exporter of Terrorism” together with US DOUBLE STANDARDS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, may lead to noncooperation in renditions (including the arrest of CIA officers) and the decision to NOT SHARE terrorism related intelligence with the United States.

Explanation: We regularly break international law and the rest of the government and citizens ignorant.

But when it comes to being perceived as an ‘exporter’, the word implies some action on the state’s part to nurture/foster/sponsor/deliver it…

I don’t see it that way. Mexico is unquestionably an “exporter” of marijuana, but that doesn’t mean the trade was the government’s idea.

http://tinyurl.com/2v6xyak

they do seem to define ‘export’ a lot more loosely than is usually done

I think that’s the purpose of the exercise–what if the international community starts applying the same wobbly definition that the US government applies to others e.g. Saddam’s Iraq vis a vis Al Qaeda.

Keep at it, Julian. The sad fact is that the U.S. government has been misusing its classified information system to hide its own doubts and misgivings about policy from the public.

Can anyone comment on that? Their site does not.

Some of these replies seem to think the U.S. is training and exporting terrorists as a matter of policy. That might be true, but that’s not what the article is about.

Problem with producing so many accomplished graduates is that sometimes your star pupils get tired of killing Russians and decide to hold a reunion back in the nation that educated them just for “old time’s sake.”

America is a nation of blow-out and blow-back.

We suck *AND* blow.

I think it’s odd that the one document to be released that the average American might read (3 pages, perfect) both makes the government look good, AND ties in that little possibility of a threat that “Hey, people dissapear ’round here ALLLL the time.”

You mutants need to take a course at ATS.. those guys think way outside the box, for free. So i consider them a service.
and this a controlled release.

That’s weird because I though that me, my family and friends, classmates and dozens of others who I know have been listening to him for decades. Guess I just imagined all that.

Since Afghanistan didn’t, and still doesn’t, have any easily exploitable resources

Um……..?

For the latter reason alone it should be leaked. If you look at WikiLeaks’ short history it’s basically a whole load of documents like this, they’re not interesting on their own – but fascinating when the picture begins to come together.

So NORAID gets a mention for its support of the IRA in the 1970′s, but says nothing of the School of the Americas (SOA: now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC). According to SOA Watch, the SOA taught some 14% of Pinochet’s Intelligence Service in counter-insurgency, interrogation, and counter-intelligence: in the league of States that maintained power through terror, Pinochet’s Chile must be near the top, and the SOA made an important contribution to Pinochet’s ability to sustain his brutal reign for as long as he did.

We’re the Good Guysâ„¢

If you don’t believe it, just look at our white hats!

“The document appears to look at the issue of the US being an exporter of terrorism via it’s citizens.

Actually, the issue of US being an exporter of terrorism and it being internationally understood is not because of American citizens on the whole, but because of the US Government and it’s alphabet agencies (mainly the CIA) sponsoring military coups, dictatorships, terrorist groups, assassinations, bombings, shootings and economic sabotage and sanctions globally to achieve the aims of the US Corporate elite and government and it’s backers which have led to the suffering, maiming, and killing of countless numbers of people worldwide.

The CIA document wishes to portray the danger of the US being recognised as an exporter of terrorism internationally because of American citizens.

A poor attempt by the CIA to deflect the blame for the US being recognised as exporting international terrorism away from itself.

The CIA is saying here to blame the American citizen, Make the American citizen the enemy terrorist instead, putting aside the fact that terrorist attacks by American citizens are minicule compared to those carried out in the name of the CIA and American government.

A precursor document ‘justifying’ a real clampdown, I fear. The citizen it seems, is now to be designated the enemy and the terrorist, not the CIA.”

this would also support a controlled leak.

Perhaps, though, it’s telling that such a memo actually had to be written – that this isn’t plainly obvious to everyone in the CIA.

“Really? Funding and training nasty people around the world for short-term gain in proxy conflicts can turn around and bite us in the ass? I hadn’t thought of that! Next you’re going to tell me that training and funding Islamic militants in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet occupation somehow created problems for the US. That would be silly!”

Hopefully wikileaks can get some heads turned to this truth with another great leak! (Though I doubt it…)

Is the memorandum about us as an exporter of terrorism as your headline suggests, or is it about the hypothetical perception of that?

It’s not suggesting we sponsor, or even export terrorism – it’s about the hypothetical of what happens if we are *perceived* as doing so.

It cites examples of American citizens who become terrorists and attack *us* and our allies from outside the country. Not terrorists that we have fostered/sponsored/exported.

Certainly putting the Intelligence back into the CIA acronym.