change in the protos torn gulf nation. and their country wind surveillance plan in the us to track citizens using an increasing number of drones it's a stumbling block as local governments say a firm no to the initiative this and more just around the corner. plans to create a medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by the new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for service between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland

security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on the battlefield because thankfully for america there haven't been any invading armies in the homeland so is there precedent for a medal like cyber warfare battles i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slog through disease and sneak field swaps in vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their medals let's just let the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion. more news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing

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please please . welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow this week an appeals court in bahrain cleared twenty one medic's of involvement in deadly anti-government protests two years ago they were initially convicted for treating demonstrators and participating in illegal gatherings last november but health workers will now avoid having to span several months in prison some of them said the initial charges were a result of confessions exacted torture erast were part of a violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in a kingdom which has been engulfed by and rest for over two years now right activist

up there not of the you've spent two months in a bahraini prison herself she thinks the government crackdown will continue while the latest ruling was only a p.r. stunt due to the high profile nature of the cases. we need to see the accountability established and those who are responsible the doctors and that is doing the doctors and putting forth charges and crimes against the doctors and giving them all of this being all this time they should be brought to justice before we think of anything else it's just the doctors case has this nature and also a very high profile case and that is a severe international pressure to resign or is this case in particular. but seeing that the aid did the monarchy. to mock as you put it is this the crackdown is still going on with the same intensity it has not changed in two years

it has not gone lists. well it seems the sky's the limit for u.s. law enforcement with aerial surveillance drone set to be used domestically with a project that increase in their number is planned over the next seven years but capitol hill has met some firm resistance to the plans as a few people want to be watched twenty four seventh's are just going to count as more on the resistance against the federal project. dream one point this documentary on u.s. public television touts the technological capabilities of drones and their new super sensors this image was taken seventeen thousand five hundred feet above quantico virginia and covers fifteen square miles if we wanted to know what is going on in any spot along the seam i'd say near this building at this intersection we can generate a moving image that shows what's going on in the area the state of virginia was the first to stand up against this kind of surveillance in early february the state

legislature passed a two year moratorium on the use of drones but the bill is yet to be signed by the state's governor who is known to be very supportive of the spy aircraft. in charlottesville virginia police have never used drones but the city council has nonetheless restricted their use just in case these this technology is already being heavily marketed to local law enforcement agencies and other groups and there's even one county in virginia that already purchased two drones for surveillance and so we know it's coming and we just we want to get out ahead of it at least twenty seven states are now considering legislation to outline how drones can be used by law enforcement or to ground them all together but there are those who believe the lawmakers at first will not the rise of the spy planes so they're taking the matter into their own hands a company in oregon says it has developed and will soon start selling to acknowledge that could shield people from surveillance drones over the phone the

developer did not offer any details but said this or not this is enabling their cameras or anything like that we are not doing anything physically to the drones we are simply not allowing their cameras to look at areas. also in the battle for privacy designer in new york came up with an anticipated list clothing line was a garment of designed to be firmly reflective of. which means that he bounces off and he does what's he was for thermal imaging particular this technology is used a lot on drones and you refuse but it's doubtful that this designers gear however creative could compete with the cutting edge spiked acknowledging now being developed for government use a million terabytes of video a day which is the equivalent of five thousand hours of high definition footage so you can go back and say i would like to see what happened in this particular

location three days two hours four minutes ago and it would actually show you exactly what happened if you are watching it there is actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or walking around what was there where as a number of states try to restrict the use of drones at a federal level there's a great push to expand their use the federal aviation administration projects that in seven years there will be thirty thousand new avi's flying over the u.s. there is absolutely no way of knowing if we are being filmed at the moment so we might as well wave to big brother up there in washington i'm going to check out. ben and coming up here in our national speaks you mixed martial arts champion jeff monson about u.s. foreign policy arms sales and why he thinks the occupy wall street movement was a turning point for the u.s. .

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the news about international and war in the very heart of moscow. the. i'm joined by mr salim jamali former chief of the iraqi intelligence services american office he's an extraordinary man who played a key role in providing the iraqi government with intelligence right before the invasion mr solomon you destroyed all documents after the war was over you burned them at a safe house in baghdad but i'm sure there is still a lot of information that you committed to memory let's start with the pretext that the u.s. used to justify the invasion they claimed that iraq had ties with al qaeda is it true or was it just a pretext. of course america did everything to prepare public opinion inside the

u.s. and internationally for the war against iraq there were two major parts to this work u.s. try to convince everyone that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that it had close ties with al qaeda and terrorists in general in the one nine hundred eighty s. we did have certain relations with some organizations but in the ninety's we received orders to stop all contact with any organization that had terrorist connections talking about ties with al qaeda george bush said that president saddam hussein had sent his envoys to meet with this summer bin laden but he never mentioned what the result of that meeting was we had connections with the muslim brotherhood in syria they had connections with some of bin laden who was in sedan at the time we got permission to establish that contact through the syrian muslim brotherhood message to some of bin laden was we all were against the american presence in saudi arabia we had the same enemy therefore we could work together undermining the saudi regime

and pressuring it to remove americans from the arabian peninsula then we got a reply from bin laden he said the baath regime in iraq was a pos eight and that it was because of the iraq regime that the americans came to the middle east therefore he couldn't have any contacts with this regime that there were other attempts to establish a connection that a some of bin laden's position never changed americans also contacted bin laden they were the ones who transferred him to afghanistan to fight against the russians over the course yanna if bin laden refused to work with saddam hussein does it then mean that it was the u.s. who cooperated with al qaida and not iraq on. i would not define it as cooperation though as it was later revealed they did have contacts they coordinated their actions and supported al qaeda is fight against the russians and the soviet union when bush said that sadam hussein sent an envoy to

bin laden he didn't talk of the results of that mission so formally his statement was true but in terms of the meaning he was wrong now let's talk a little bit about the weapons of mass destruction in iraq really have these weapons as america claimed when it invaded the country. one more thing about al qaeda before the war against iraq the u.s. media talked a lot about abu musaab now is that kerry who allegedly was in iraq and had connections with the iraqi regime we searched but didn't find miss sampson we had no connections with or al qaeda there was an attempt to establish a connection with the taliban through one of the ministers who was in pakistan iraqi intelligence proposed this but foreign minister tariq aziz said that it was an unstable regime and it wouldn't benefit iraq to have relations with it did iraq actually have w m d that could threaten the entire world or the region where.

they fabricated a certain problem analyzed it and drew their conclusions based on that the data they receive from various sources was untrue this was their attempt of swaying public opinion in terms of the intelligence operation iraq was a closed country and they obviously had no sources within the country that would have told them the truth so they relied on other sources that fed them lies such as for instance photos of trucks portable labs which according to their allegations were used for producing chemical weapons that they were actually used for checking food products supplied for the government but they took photos of those labs and presented them as units for producing w m d but what i am absolutely convinced had the americans had an iraqi source that was telling them the truth they wouldn't have done what they did. in spite of having problems between the cia and the national security adviser it wanted to impose her opinion by making certain changes in the cia reports in the counter intelligence business you should let the opponent

have its sources inside your country who you keep under control you should ensure that there's a certain information leak to the extent you want to have it before the war in our secret communication we confirmed that they convince the world in the need of entering iraq in order to resolve two major issues w m d and ties with al qaida but what would they tell the world if they invaded iraq and didn't find w m d's or ties with al qaeda you may have noticed that the entire talk was held in a different key after a while they changed the entire plan and they said they were pursuing democratic goals in a rug and once chaos began in iraq they called it constructive chaos seize the entire arab region in their strategy they believe that america would rule this whole area once they overthrew saddam hussein but it actually worked out the opposite way when chaos seized the entire area. were you prepared for cooperation with the international community for instance with europe or the u.s.

in their counterterrorism area. we were and we sent a number of letters on that matter in one nine hundred ninety three a truck full of explosives drove into the world trade center that attack was developed and executed by an iraqi american who came from samara iraq this man fled back to iraq following the attack the iraqi intelligence detained him and put him on trial we were willing to extradite him he was an american and we had no right to keep him but we wanted to have guarantees that the extradition would take place within the official framework but often when handing such a man over both sides are supposed to sign statements of transfer and acceptance in presence of an intermediary we drew up those statements which were very explicit and the americans refused to sign the acceptance statement. and the only reason they did that was to claim that iraq was reluctant to cooperate in the war with terror that's right. it is said that you've penetrated into the us department of

defense is that true here we have recruited a high ranking officer from the united states department of defense however not all of this information was genuine a part of it was supposed to mislead us this officer even unveiled the general scenario of the war with iraq the us military strength in turkey information about troops and counter intelligence in countries neighboring iraq such as saudi arabia and the gulf arab states he was the one who confirmed there would be no attacking from turkey guided by this information we relocated the adnan division from the mosul region closer to baghdad thus fortifying positions of the troops around the city the u.s. counter intelligence suspected we had a source in the department of defense and was deliberately exposing tons of all sorts of information but we knew which of the information was true we had information that the americans would invade as soon as they amassed seventy five thousand troops in the gulf about a month ahead of the invasion we sent a report to the command staff informing them that the american forces stationed in

the gulf had swollen to seventy three thousand in strength coming close to the benchmark for launching the invasion at the same time the americans were faking leaks to make us believe the invasion would start somewhere in april may but we were certain that this would kick off any day now. does that mean that the leaders of iraq actually had a chance of avoiding the war. we were positive that they would be war the american media propaganda machine had been blatantly manipulating public opinion internationally and inside the united states it was already too late for them to call off the war effort and for us it was difficult to sway public opinion after nine eleven there was a missed opportunity here prior to the nine eleven attacks it was still possible for us to come to terms with washington by making some serious concessions but after nine eleven with the us administration and especially the department of defense becoming dominated by hardliners we found it increasingly difficult to deal

with the americans we had the american jewish lobby to thank for that as they were investing serious efforts in toppling the iraqi regime or what about the high profile decision makers the group of new york conservative decision makers who are responsible for starting this war. and i've already mentioned those who were officially in charge of the war richard perle colin powell donald rumsfeld on top of all of them dick cheney and president bush but the policy advisors i'm referring to were a group within the defense department effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam

hussein the d.o.t. replied just let a save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would expand its area of influence across the gulf region it was us who checks terrorist activity and contained iran's quest for regional domination i'm sure that all of our messages and information did reach us decision makers up to the very top. or did the iraqi leadership believe that america would stop short of starting the war because of its program attic policy and little interest in wrecking havoc and endangering its allies in the persian gulf. and. i think our leadership believed that the us administration could foresee

the implications of toppling the iraq regime that the american administration would do something as stupid as letting the iraq regime fall and allowing al qaeda and iran to spread their influence across the region was totally inconceivable authorities thought that the wall wouldn't last long and that afterwards the us would put forward so. conditions and we would say yes but no one had expected americans not only to crush the regime but the whole country as well in such a brutal manner they even went as far as damaging their own country they lost people and money it's those wars that sparked the economic crisis that are going through now no one had thought that americans would act so irrationally so what. you may refuse to answer this question but i will still try and ask it a few days after the attack you were arrested by american soldiers. did they try to make you speak or find out about your sources in the us on april ninth baghdad fell

on april the twelfth i set on fire all the archives we kept on the us western europe and asian countries. so i think it was how long did it take you to burn them and what a. total of four days after i took the decision in order to burn these files there were tons of documents but i made sure they were all destroyed on april the twenty second i was arrested those guys wanted to make me speak in his book the cia director right that they had successfully located an important informant in the intelligence the pilots were told to get ready for an airstrike we insisted that we needed him a life that was important for us here they broke into my house at five in the evening did you consider attempting an escape. and i know i was sure i would get caught no matter where i went i was responsible for the archive on the u.s. i had all the information i wasn't worried because the archive had been burned and

words are just words. let's talk about a sensitive subject. did you really try to bribe mr el baradei. you know i work for intelligence and ninety percent of intelligence work is illegal it's true for all intelligence services around the world if you always observe the law you won't be able to work for intelligence we encourage el baradei to tell the truth in which case the americans would have tried to get rid of him if they had tried to do that we were ready to take his side and support him all he had to do is tell the truth and they would have be no need to worry about his position or financial security eventually this plan was discarded so you're not even sure whether mr el baradei knew about this deal with no i don't know that for sure. and finally in my last question were there any cases of treason within senior military command not too much as far as i know there were no such cases i'm

absolutely sure of it the military command remains united but last minute changes to our battle plans led to the destruction of three republican guard divisions that were moving to cut into the rolling american columns as they stretched along the western bank of the year for eighty's of course we had no support from the air they were able to tap into our communication so they focused on that they managed to recruit a communications expert from special services who knew how the communication system of the prisons back up residences works was he an iraqi yes he was an iraqi when the door a neighborhood in baghdad got hit this person vanished without a trace thank you mr sawyer.

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