Training Camp Passed From CIA Control To Al Qaeda's
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Courtesy Of: GlobalResearch.ca
Via: WayneMadsenReport.com
May 27, 2006

Washington, D.C.--WMR has obtained a confidential "France Only" report of the French Intelligence Service, Direction Generale, de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), that states that the CIA and Britain's MI6 maintained effective control of an important Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan as late as 1995, fully two years after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

...The CIA and MI6 permitted control of training operations at Darunta, an "Arab Afghan" base located near the camp of Osama Bin Laden and used to manufacture explosives and chemical weapons and train in their use, to pass to control of Ibn Cheikh, a Libyan leader of Al Qaeda.

The DGSE report, dated January 9, 2001, is classified "Defense Confidential" and "National (French) Use Only,"

"Besides the Maghreb enclave, the training at Darunta, which, for approximately 2 months Mainly involved the manufacture and the use of the explosives by terrorists. The training, initially provided at the camp of Khalden, in Paktia, was transferred during 1995, on the order of Ibn Cheikh, to Darunta, in order to slide [the training] from the control of the security services of certain countries, in particular the United States and United Kingdom."

The report continues by stating that in 1998, the training was expanded to include the use of C-4 plastic explosives and different types of detonators (electric, acid, etc).

Training also included the use of homemade explosives (like improvised explosive devices killing so many in Iraq today) and poisons such as arsenic, cyanide, gas, diamond powder, nicotine, and ricin.

After Al Qaeda took control of Darunta from the CIA and MI6, the camp was used to train Al Qaeda operatives to launch a series of deadly attacks, including the November 1995 attack on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, the 1998 attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, the abortive Dec. 31, 1999 "Millennium" attack on Los Angeles International Airport by Algerian Ahmed Ressam, and the attack on the USS Cole.

...Two significant items emerge from the DGSE report. One is the fact that the CIA and MI6 were dealing with a Libyan Al Qaeda member at the same time Libyan leader Muammar el Qaddafi had declared war on Al Qaeda.

Unlike the United States, Libya issued an Interpol arrest warrant for Bin Laden on March 16, 1998.

With this treasure trove of proof of U.S. (an British) support for Al Qaeda, Qaddafi, had the U.S. and the Neo-Cons over the barrel.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the Bush administration now considers Qaddafi (once branded as terrorist number one) to be a good friend.

The other item is the training of Ahmed Ressam at Darunta. Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was charged with removing classified documents from the National Archives concerning the Ressam bombing plot.

The question remains--What were in these documents and did they have anything to do with the CIA's fingerprints on the Darunta camp?

Note: Wayne Madsen is a former National Security Agency Analyst...

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