Posted on 01/14/2004 10:25:17 PM PST by mikegi
[Here's a condensed version of what happened on the show]
In late Feb2003, shortly before the Gulf War II, an Iraqi clerk walked into our embassy in Italy and wanted to defect. He handled codes for the Iraqi secret police (Mukbarat sp?). Of course, we wanted him to give us some intelligence info in exchange for asylum. The man said that he was hearing lots of traffic about a terrorist planning meeting in Libya and that he was supposed to go there as a clerk.
We tracked the man to Libya and he got the details of the upcoming meeting ... but wouldn't turn them over to us until he was out of the country. Our agents handling him decided to fake his death. They gave him a paralyzing drug then posed as paramedics to take him away. After getting across to Egypt, the man told our guys when and where the meeting would take place.
Our Navy closed on the Libyan coast and sent a SEAL team to listen in on the meeting. They put a camera in the meeting house and beamed the signal via satellite back to the CIA. We found that the high ranking Iraqi secret police official was setting up plans to bomb American embassies. After gathering the info, the SEAL team was ordered to take them out, which they did.
Afterwards, papers found in the house indicated that the Iraqis were also going to use a suicide bomber to kill a Muslim anti-Saddam cleric in England. We had MI6 warn the cleric. He wore a flak jacket on his way to the mosque. A suicide bomber approached and MI6 killed him.
Anyone out there remember reading about Britain killing a suicide bomber in London around Feb 23, 2003???
Last night they had a SEAL team go into Mexico and waste a bio-terror cell. Seems like Mexicans would have raise hell to high heaven over something like this. I wish I could believe it, but I don't...
Just too good to be true.
In the war against terrorism, the United States faces a whole new kind of enemy -- one that operates independently of any nation. The question that vexes the U.S. is not if the enemy will strike, but rather where and when. Delve into real CIA case files that detail risky, top-secret missions led by special operations teams -- intensely trained and armed with sophisticated technology -- whose goal is to eliminate these terrorist threats. For these elite few, failure is not an option. Through dramatic recreations of actual maneuvers, learn how CIA officers put their lives on the line to dismantle al-Qaeda's apparatus of terror.
I don't know what to make of this. Real or not?
From my understanding of the program, those were our CIA ops who protected the cleric and killed the suicide bomber, not MI6.
They also suggested Seattle was a target for the iraqi terrorists.
Discovery is a non-fiction channel. Although these were reinactments, they are apparently based on reality. It is strange though, that there is no info on these missions on the 'net or in the news.
Here's the schedule for anyone wanting to catch this show:
network: Discovery Channel
series: Covert Action
episode: Operation Rat Hole
rating: ma
... Covert Action Operation Rat Hole. As plans unfold for the invasion of Iraq, it becomes increasingly likely that Saddam Hussein will launch terrorist reprisals ...
airing: — Jan 14 2004 @ 09:00 PM
— Jan 15 2004 @ 12:00 AM
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network: Discovery Channel
series: Covert Action
episode: Operation Rescate
rating: ma
Because of the risk of setting a negative precedent, the U.S. maintains no policy for exchanging hostages to meet terrorist demands. However, U.S. Special Forces working with CIA intelligence have rescued American hostages.
airing: — Jan 15 2004 @ 09:00 PM
— Jan 16 2004 @ 12:00 AM
From a blowfish.
They also exposed plans to attack Seattle and Frankfurt. Last night they uncovered Pentagon drawings/maps.
I've only caught parts of it. I'm going to start taping it.
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