Leaked CIA memo cites U.S. Jews among exporters of terrorism
Wikileaks releases a CIA memo titled 'What if Foreigners See the United States as an Exporter of Terrorism?' in which American Jews in Israel was one of four groups mentioned.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel newsThe Wikileaks website released a CIA document on Wednesday that examines the trend of Americans committing terrorist acts overseas, including American Jews in Israel.
American Jews in Israel were one of four groups mentioned in the classified report, titled "What if Foreigners See the United States as an Exporter of Terrorism?"
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"Some American Jews have supported and even engaged in violent acts against perceived enemies of Israel," the report reads. "In 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American Jewish doctor from New York, emigrated to Israel, joined the extremist group Kach, and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers in the mosque at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron which helped trigger a wave of bus bombings by Hamas in early 1995."
Other groups mentioned were Irish-Americans who supported the Irish Republican Army; a group of Muslim-American men who traveled to Pakistan last year to engage in Jihad; and a Pakistani-American man, David Headley, who conducted surveillance for the Lashkar-i-Tayyiba terrorist group ahead of the attack in Mumbai, India in November 2008 that killed more than 160 people.
The leaked report was compiled in February 2010 by the CIA's Red Cell, which, according to the memorandum, was tasked with "taking a pronounced 'out-of-the-box' approach that will provoke thought and offer an alternative viewpoint on the full range of analytic issues."
Wikileaks, an online whistle-blowing website, recently published tens of thousands of classified military documents related to the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
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I read it and it seems like a fake memo created by Wikileaks or one of their supporters, in my opinion.
Who cares if the report is true?
Assange may think or believe he is doing the world a great service publishing stolen documents but I think we need to be a bit more discerning before passing judgment on the context and content of some of these documents. The specific CIA document reads like an internal memo, worrying that the US would be seen as 'an incubator and exporter of terrorism'. To make sure that American-Muslims would not be offended (should the document be leaked!), the CIA included a short paragraph about Goldstein, as an example of American-Jewish 'homegrown terrorism'. This is so ridiculous, and also dishonest. There is no homegrown American-Jewish terrorism and the CIA cannot name a single American Jewish person but in a very disingenuous way they imply that 'Some American Jews have supported and even engaged in violent acts against perceived enemies of Israel'. But not against America – and this is the crucial point, which the CIA does not make. Because, however you look at this, the homegrown terrorists have but one aim, to destroy America. Goldstein, unlike many American-Muslims, was not recruited and trained by a terrorist organization in the US to commit a terrorist act against the US. What he did, and the reasons he may have had for doing so, have nothing to do with US homegrown terrorism. It would have been better for the CIA to do some brainstorming about the terrorist organizations operating in the US, their methods of recruitment, brainwashing and training – the result, and conclusions, would have been more interesting, and quite revealing. But it seems that the CIA did not want to write such a memo, or maybe there is one that Wikileaks has not yet released?
Sounds like someones on the ball at the CIA. Americans don't move to Israel out of fear of anti-semitism in the US or due to economic hardship. We come due to a deep sense of ideological motivation and a desire to take part in the rebirth of Israel. As a result you'll see American immigrants disproportionately represented on the right and the left, in Kibbutzim and (unfortunately) in settlements. Yes, you'll here many American accents at Kach and Women in Green demonstrations but you'll hear the same accents at Peace Now and Women in Black demonstrations. And yes, to our great shame, the murder/terrorist Baruch Goldstein was one of us. It only makes sense that the security services will keep an eye on those few who appear ready to cross the line from legitimate political action to violence and terror.
Interesting to note that of the 4 examples cited, the Jewish terrorist was the only one seen and treated as a terrorist by his coreligionists. Naturally, mention of this salient detail is omitted.
wear the US military uniform or go by the name of Blackwater/Xe! BTW, Jewish American settler thugs terrorize Palestinians on a daily basis according various news media.
jews in usa that fund ilegal settelments in "israel" are funding illegal actions, heck they even use our tax dollars , gave to israel by bribes from aipac, and use that money to bring commie jews and try to claim arab land, like they did in nejab, now its called sedrot, unreal, thats a terrorist action if i ever saw one,
with convenient dual citizenship... likewise, the most vociferous and fanatic settlers are American Jews...they also know how to extract maximum funding from the USA...
In 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American Jewish doctor from New York, emigrated to Israel, joined the extremist group Kach, and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers in the mosque at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron
Most radical settlers are those psycho American (example Dr. Baruch Goldstien who murdered 26 people while they were parying in Hebron). and many settlers are terrorists who terrify civilians in the West Bank. I am not surprised that such a document is stating the truth. this is only the tip of the iceberg!!!
Many of the most violent Jewish settler fanatics are Jews from Brooklyn, USA.
When you can only cite one incident 16 years ago, how that metastasizes, into exporters of terrorism seems bizarre at best. While we can find dozens if not hundreds of Muslims from the U.S. who have participated in similar and much worse acts. One incident certainly doesn't constitute a pattern. One incident in 16 years is an anomaly. Nothing more.
.... Jewish exporter of terrorism, why not all christian Americans, I forget all their names, who became full blown Al-Qaeda terrorists being also a major terror group? I asked, I will answer: all those thousands of Jewish-American religious settlers are also terrorists in the making....Likud embraced them.... now, what are we to do with them?
May be this man leaking all this stuff is an Anti-Semite. He must be. Let's go after him.
This is blackmail
rubin was being sarcastic/ironic. thumbs up
mostly murder and land theift...not one day goes by w/o state sponsored terrorism directed at palestinians
It is an organized crime by terrorist state of Israel killing civilians by F16 and tanks. Unfortunately in your culture meaning of terrorism is limited to killing by explosive belts and killing from distance by regular armies is not considered terrorism.
it justifies the inhumane acts of many... I'm against both of them but the idea is : this inhumane act got some people out of their mind to do other inhumane acts as a retaliation for the first act
Remember that there were 20 terrorists (mainly Saoudi)that destroyed the twin towers and killed nearly 3000 innocent people. That inhumane act sparked the still ongoing war in Afghanistan that has seen hundreds of thousands killed. a few extremists and many more suffer
in the name of certain religion, vs. 1-2 attacks by Jews in the same period.
cast iron wasn't a massacre, terrorism....just you jews doing what yu have to? someone should stop ews doing what they have to and call it by its true name...state terrorism
try goggle.
The daily attacks by settlers on Palestinians do not count! Huh.
If your counting acts in Afghanistan, Iraq,Somalia, Pakistan and other so called islamic states which are dictatorial and oligarchies run by an elite suppressing or enslaving the masses then your numbers are not fair. these countries are worse than banana republics and they do an injustice to any religion which is what the masses are fed on a daily bassis to deal with their miserable existence. maoists in India under similar circumstances are killing and blowing up people and places on a daily basis yet are not islamic, how do you explain that? Acts committed in North America, Europe, Australia and israel? would be more relevant as these countries matter and are important in the Democratic world where if one commits terrorism its not because one is being oppressed but rather for extremist fundamental reasons.
either don't know the truth/ don't want to know the truth/ are truly stupid/ anti-Semitic, or a combination of the two. Anyone who seriously thinks that America exports Jewish "terrorism" should be admitted to a psych ward.
Compared to three GROUPS of people? Lost 2 minutes of my life here.
Avi don't you read Haaretz?
now go and ask CIA+Mossad why they did it all
Next time I will expect a consultancy fee. What this report fails to factor in for consideration is that American society in general is predominantly violent and militant. The homicide rate, the gun crime rate and the existence of various militias and cults that possess weaponry. The concept that gun ownership and hunting are both rights and "manly" activities. The police brutality and the huge prison population - American TV and movies that routinely portray unnecessary police violence and the harsh prison conditions. While I am not arguing with any of the above, my personal opinions are irrelevant, it must be a contributing factor to the underlying American violent subconscious.
some american muslim goes to the middle east and kills a bunch of people --> all american muslims are terrorists. some american jew does the same thing and he's an "isolated incident" and it doesn't matter anyway because he was just trying to "defend himself" against "holocaust ii". cute.
.... like that "alleged" killer who had to be freed for lack of 100% proof....
by racist zionists?
Could someone please convince Pam Geller to make aliyah?
Making her go away won't make the problem go away
one only needs to read her own words, and hear her speak, and then compare that to reality and facts. Either she is skillfully prevaricating, or incredibly stupid, and the bad part is no one can really tell yet.
For those who would attempt to ferment such feelings against jews. Though we do not become terrorists. There will never be a Holocaust II. We will defend ourselves. But never in such a way.
Irv Rubin was also a terrorist. David Berkowitz was a serial killer. People can't be stereotyped. Every ethnicity has its bad apples and its humanists.
While I agree with your comment that every ethnicity has bad apples and humanists, I want to point out the David Berkowitz was not Jewish. He was adopted at a young age by a Jewish couple and was born of Christian Parents. And now that he has been in prison for decades, he is a born again Christian.
But has not been aired .Nevermind eh glad yours HAS
Hey Stephen don't they all tiose criminals do so?Even the worst of SERIAL KILLERS BEHIND BARS SUDDENLY FIND THE FAITH ..GEE IS IT WASN'T SO CYNICAL IT WOULD BE BLOODY STUPID.ANYONE WHO BELIEVES CRIMINALS WHO CONVERT TO CHRITANITY ARE SUDDENLY GOOD GUYS NEEDS THEIR HEADS EXAMINED THAT GOES FOR THE WOMEN WHO MARRY THEM SILLY B&%S! What possess them is a wonder
His mother was seperated from her husband and his father was married to someone else. At the insistance of the father, he was given up to adoption to a Jewish family. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/berkowitz/17.html
and his father was Joseph Kleinman. Both of his parents were Jewish. And both of his adopted parents were Jewish. Just to keep the facts straight.
Thank you!
you found the reason for all of the world's problems - the JEWS! - very original...
They blamed superstitious fools acting under the guise of the biggest con in the world - organized religion.
No one can prove that a Jew ever committed an act of terror, period. What appears to some as an 'act of terror' is really carrying out the will of G-d, period. This applies even to the Etzel and Lehi heroes! Hello! the Jews ARE the Chosen people!
Fundies of ANYT stripe are bad news.
A jewish guy, an Irish guy, or a muslim guy? What do you expect from the CIA when the commander in cheif is bowing and apologizing to the Suadi king and other tyrants?
And the part of the CIA commander bowing and scrapping to the Saudi King is one of many examples that emanates FROM THAT quarter. Who wouda THOUGHT IT HA? Only fools and horses perhaps? What bothers me more is Haaretz trying to put THE FEAR OF GOD INTO OUR HEARTS.Me? I fear nothing BUT FEAR ITSELF.Still I much prefer sitting next to 100% european.Hmmm come to think cannot trust even them.They do change.I heard it on the BBC(only yesterday) Courts in session on a man who was an ardent leader lie the KKK who changed and became a MUSLIM.You see nowadays no one is safe..
Comparatively, we do not have much terorism, in the US. The last terrorist that I remember in Southern California was Irv Rubin. He was NOT typical of our huge Jewish population.
If so, I'll take the Muslim.
Don't make stoooopid generalizations, Ross.
If I were a Palestinian Muslim in the WB I'd hardly feel safe sitting next to a Jew from the Yitzhar Yeshiva.
The document was written for George Tenet under Bush you dope.
I heard it on the BBC(only yesterday) Courts in session on a man who was an ardent leader lie the KKK who changed and became a MUSLIM?.
How come people grow up in the US with a strong foundation of human rights and tolerance for "others", yet they adopt their their most evil ethnic passions in actions abroad? Apparently, the American values are generally adopted only towards other Americans (with some exceptions of US converts to Islam joining attacks on the US). How this works in people's heads I really don't understand.
This phenomenon began since the fundemental Muslims surfaced with their JIHAD, Sharia spreading their since 14.00 years old submission toward their CULTIC faith or sold I SAY THE MOON GOD.Not aying all of them are bad and untrustworthy,but the few that act in their manner ,spoi it to the normal and liberal Muslims who want to live a peaceful life minding their business.I have to mention too,the high proportion of SERIAL KILLERS, AND HIGH PERCENTAGES OF CRIMINALS who are afilliated to DRUG CARTELS thugs all of them. The only safe airplane in the whole world is still EL -AL ..I have fond most people prefer it all the time. Efficient secure,and comfortable . Perhaps I am party pris here,but then so is Colin W. by choosing to sit next to a muslim? Oh so would I,so would I Colin.. But with some trepidation.
They don't grow up with a strong foundation of human rights and tolerance for others - it didn't "stick" with those people
are irrefutable. If the idea gains traction that the United States exports terrorism to various places in the world then this could cause problems for the United State's war on terrorism as it can be accused of double standards. The IRA couldn't have achieved what it did without American money, Goldstein was an American who moved to Israel and then carried out a massacre which If the victims had been Jews would have been called an act of terrorism Why the histrionics? Americans who moved to israel are not the only ones singled out Americans funding the IRA, Americaans trying to meet the Taliban and DDavid Headley who scouted Mumbai for a terrorist attack in which 160 people died. A nation's security agents have a duty to look at all scenerios, I am sure MOSSAD and Shin Bett, when not perpertrating acts of terrorism also look at the effect of that terrorism.
It's really too bad Chris, your post was almost reasonable but you obviously hate Israel/Jews so much that you just can't control yourself. For instance, of Baruch Goldstein you write"... If the victims had been Jews would have been called an act of terrorism..." How do you know that its not called an act of terrorism in Israel? How much Hebrew do you speak? Have you ever been here and spoken to your average Israeli? So here's some facts, in Israel Goldstein is often reffered to (both in the press and in every day conversations) as HaMichabel HaYehudi (the Jewish terrorist) and his descpicable crime is usually referred to as HaTevach B'Maarat Hamachpela, the (massacre in the cave of the patriarchs). Israelis are revolted by Goldstein and others like him. As to your gratuitous comment about the Mossad and Shin Bet, that was simply beneath contempt.
They train terrorists that are foresworn enemies of Israel and that danced after 9/11 That explains why the dems. appointed cia head who could make the new admin. comfy in applying 100% pressure on Israel only.
Silly billy saying things just to be controversial. And here I am,falling for it by replying to your silly verbose nonsense.
More often than not very well deserved.
"More often than not very well deserved." - I would say "almost always deserved."
Losers from the FBI and CIA had overlooked it totally ,just as they overlooked preparations to the 9/11 and continue with whipping of the dead horse -an "Israeli terrorist" instead.
This shows that AntiSemitism is rife within America's dark spooks. All they do is blame the Jews. The problem with America's spooks seems to be that they are dominated mainly by Pagan Papists who are AntiSemites whose early church fathers invented AntiSemitism. And in their reign of terror during the 1260 years of Dark Ages from 538 AD to 1798, they persecuted GOD'S people-Jews and Judeo-Christians in Europe and the Holy Land. Today, their ugly head has resurfaced. But the Book of Revelation reveals that in the End Time, GOD will rescue His people and put an end to the dark forces.
Way to see what you want out of this article.
IF YOU DIDNT LOSE LOVED ONE ON 9/11 and do not feel the pain dont call me a bigot
if you lost someone that day, i personally can forgive you your close-mindedness and bitterness. But, you don't get to speak for the world.
How is that a leak? All of the incidents were just news. If the memo said that Kach was secretely funded by a prominent politician then it would be a leak. That memo is from some think tank kicking around hypothetical future scenarios. Groups like that are no different from a bunch of reporters in the American Colony Hotel Bar. I'm sure some memo exists spectulating on the chances of a group of radical settlers blowing up the Dome of the Rock, and the signs of any trend predicting such an act.
One insane idiot out of millions commits an act of violence so now its all jews. You fascist CIA pigs! CIA information gets less accurate by the day. Maybe they rely too much on technology rather than accuracy.. Get a real clue and leave jews alone. Rarely would they even consider to engage in such things. It has to do with our beliefs.
pertaining to what Goldstein did and his place of birth and the possible perception that Goldstein will be seen as a terrorist from the United States who moved to Israel to commit a massacre?
One insane idiot out of millions of muslim commits an act of violence so now its all Muslim? Leave islam alone and get out of ME
Some of them are indeed terrorists just as much as any Taliban.
becareful what you post. It is the those that pray to ALLAHA THAT FLEW PLANE INTO PLANT INTO WORLD TRADE CENTER. I DIDNT ASK THEM TO COME HERE, I WOULD LOVE TO GET OUT OF ME BUT YOU SEEM TO FORGET IT SAUDI ARABI and Kwat(SP) THAT ASKED FOR OUR MILITARY BLOOD WHILE THEIR YOUTH DANCED IN LONDON
IF I MAY BE SO BOLD TO SAY
Offhand, at least one of those West Bankers who have taken up murdering random Palestinians as a hobby was American. Then there was the attempted assassination of Darrel Issa. What else, I don't know... ..
Muslims! Six foreign guys take out the twin towers. (or, so we CLAIMED) Nine years later, all of our four million, or so, American Muslims are terrorists. BTW-- Just read in the paper, today, that Fox news is funded by a "terrorist" Saudi prince.
what's the world coming to?
Again, WikiLeaks is doing the world a favor by speaking truth to power. I am Ba-al Teshuvah, and consider trayf acts by other Jews even more heinous than trayf acts by goyim. I have long felt that America harbors domestic terrorists even more dangerous than Al Qaeda or the Taliban. The Jewish community should condemn such action by the Goldsteins of this world in no uncertain terms. They are no friend to Israel and a disgrace to Judaism.
The vast majority of the Jewish community both in the United States and Israel abhorred and unequivocally condemned the murderous actions of Baruch Goldstein. Where did you come up with the inference that the community had not and "should condemn" such acts? As a baal teshuvah, you should be aware that motzei shem rah deals with defamation, both by omission as well as commission.
people like you do more to drain anti-semitism of its virulence than a thousand abe foxman's
Could not agree with you more, everyone here should go out on different internet forums where there is anti-muslim sentiment and see what other so called "jewish" persons propagate. It is almost hard to believe they come from the same background as we.
As an American I find this comical, this is the organization that has stumbled again and again in protecting the USA from one catastrophe after an other, yet they have have found one deranged Jew to focus on. There we go CIA!
ENDING THE CHARADE OF THE CIA EVEN FBI AT TIMES.BUT THE FIRST TAKES THE WHOLE CAKE ON THE CHILDISH LIST.
Disgusted? Why? Do you realize that the CIA is one of our best institutions? I'ts fine men and women work around the clock, all over the world to protect us. So grow up, Mr, Disgusted and give them their earned credit.
I give them their due when they act equitably. can't say they are right all of the time.tricky business they have to carry out don't ya know?
these people have no idea what the CIA has accomplished over its history... dont worry bout it...
So the CIA is saying this ....Oh really! The one group in the world whose operatives continuously create terror and divide peoples and cause friction all over the world in order to create the need for localized contractor wars to allow an elite few unionized companies to make billions of dollars while the masses worry about their futures. Jewish people as a rule do not engage in such things and though there are exceptions, they are few and far between. The fact that the vaunted CIA one esteemed as an honorable and honest organization seems to have fallen a far ways as this an other information no longer seems to be accurate in the real world. It is either that or for some unknown reason they have decided to target jews. I am perplexed by this as well as saddened and maddened. It seems to me there has been an un-noticed infiltration in some of the intelligence communities of an almost fascist idealism which secretly ferments such ideas. I am saddened by this.
Oh,yes,I forgot Irgun and Gangster terrorist groups
What Goldstein did was horrific, but that's one cuckoo from America 16 years ago. How can that merit a conversation about American Jews exporting terror? It's patently ridiculous. Besides, Goldstein joined Kach after moving to Israel. That hardly makes him an "export." Somebody's scraping the bottom of the barrel for reasons to slur American Jews.
good post
Whenever a subject such as this comes in the forums you'll find THEM ALL HERE REJOICING. Scrapping the barrel is just appropos too. One bad apple does not an Orchard destroys. Besides I was told by my brother the Baruch Goldstein being a good doctor even caring for the PalestiniansFOR ONE SPLIT SECOND JUST LOST IT! (and my bros ain't a settler and isa secular Jew) SO THEREYOU BE ALL THE BUMS HERE including the silly CIA in this instance
lowest common denominator. as long as your above that, all criticism is anti-semitism