Peter Chamberlin

Duane R. Clarridge

If the FBI is using Duane Clarridge’s spy network in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate the murder of ten aid workers which the Taliban publicly labels as CIA spies, is it a cover-up, or another “false flag” operation? Clarridge recently renamed his network the “Eclipse Group,” because it is intended to be just that, an eclipse that blocks-out our memories of what his boys have been up to along the Durand Line. Just last year, his group’s activities were allegedly suspended by the Pentagon.

FBI utilising private spy network’s skills to investigate Afghan aid workers’ deaths

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reportedly taking the help of a private spy network operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate the killing of 10 medical aid workers in northern Afghanistan.

The New York Times quoted American officials and private contractors as saying that the spy network, managed by a former top official at the Central Intelligence Agency named Duane R. Clarridge, has provided agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kabul with intelligence reports about militants who may have been involved in the attack, which killed six Americans last August.

Clarridge’s network, recently renamed the Eclipse Group, has also fed information to an F.B.I.-supervised task force in Kabul that is in charge of dealing with corruption inside Afghanistan’s government, people familiar with the operation have said.

The group has reportedly disclosed information ranging from the business dealings of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, to rumours that Afghan officials had secretly shipped large amounts of money to Dubai, the paper said.

An F.B.I. spokesman declined to comment on Clarridge’s work with the bureau in Afghanistan.

Clarridge’s lawyer, Raymond Granger, though declining to discuss any ties between his client and the F.B.I, said that The Eclipse Group was “cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation in the murder of the 10 aid workers, and is prepared to assist in other areas as well.”

Granger also said that the F.B.I.’s use of private citizens for help in criminal investigations, in the United States or abroad, was “as basic as it gets,” adding that Clarridge was not paid for any work he did for the government.

The attack on the 10 medical aid workers in the remote mountains of Badakhshan Province on August 2010 was the largest killing of aid workers in the country in years.

American officials have not been able to figure out so far who exactly were behind the attacks.

Days after the killings, the Taliban had claimed in its press releases that the group consisted of Western spies. (ANI)

Spooks and Private Contractors Hunting Pakistanis

From left: Michael D. Furlong, the official who was said to have hired private contractors to track militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Robert Young Pelton, a contractor; Duane Clarridge, a former C.I.A. official; and Eason Jordan, a former television news executive.
(Photo credits–From Left: United States Air Force; Robert Young Pelton; Mike Wintroath/Associated Press; Adam Berry/Bloomberg News)

[After Clarridge's outfit was outed by the N. Y. Times, last year, (photo above) they were allegedly shut down pending alleged multiple investigations, charging that they were using a human intelligence information , "HUMINT" gathering operation for the real purpose of targeting Taliban and "al-Qaeda," possibly for drone targeting info. The AfPax Insider (SEE: AfPax Insider Part of Pakistani Taliban?) was their baby. The following video from the site is remarkable:

more about “AfPax Insider: Bombs Away: Pakistani …“, posted with vodpod

The fact that this outfit was somehow able to get right inside the Pakistani Taliban to make this video confirmed suspicions that there was something much more sinister to this group than simple intelligence gathering on Afghan/Pakistani social networking. In the video we see clear evidence that the photographers were very familiar, if not outright friendly to the Pakistani Taliban, seen smiling for the cameraman. It seems apparent that either AfPax had been finding drone targets, or that they served as some sort of connection between TTP and CIA. It is highly doubtful that Pentagon investigations will dwell on either possibility.

In the video the “militants” witness an American F16 airstrike, which appears to be somewhere near Ft. Sararoga outside Wana, S. Waziristan. In AfPak Insider Interview With Qari Zain Mehsud, The man being interviewed is Qari Zianuddin Mehsud. On June 24, 2009, sometime after the filming of this video, Qari Zain was murdered in his sleep, allegedly by Baitullah Mehsud’s cousin, Gulbadin.

So maybe AfPax was doing the legwork for death squads. At first I thought that the intelligence guys were letting the cameramen inside the circus, backstage passes to the great game being staged for our amusement, watching the airstrikes, while they bravely fired a few rounds of with heavy machine guns, only to go in right after the strikes to film rubble that no one seemed to think had people lying under it. Another fact that seemed odd, was all the laughter being passed around among the men after the airstrike, theoretically their compounds or friends’ homes.

Then I watched the next video and realized who the guy on camera was, Qari Zanuddin Mehsud. Then it hit me, that we were witnessing filming taking place inside the camp of anti-Baitullah Mehsud forces, just before their leader was snuffed-out. Qari was being sized-up for the kill. Whoever gave these AfPax guys access to Baitullah’s enemies, the one supposedly working for the Pak Army, and you see that we were witnessing the taking-out of the next man to lead the Pakistani Army’s anti-Mehsud faction. Once again, it resembled the days before Obama, when Pakistan could not get the CIA to hit Mehsud, even when they supplied the exact coordinates. Obama came in, started hitting near Mehsud, until Pakistan tricked them into actually killing him. Before that, Pakistan could get no help with Baitullah. Before Qari’s murder, they could get no support for their anti-Mehsud actions. Now that Qari is dead, and Mullah Nazir before him, while Qari Zain’s primary ally Turkestan Bhitani was recently “run out of Dodge,” all of the anti-Taliban leaders being groomed by the Pak Army are gone, leaving only American solutions, solutions that the Army is dead-set against.

Qari Zain and his boys were followers of Abdullah Mehsud, after his split with Baitullah. Zain and his men believe that Baitullah arranged for Abdullah’s death, just like Zain’s. Both Qari and Abdullah split with Baitullah because they thought he was CIA. This is the way the agency operates, constant name-changing of its radical groups, as well as constant name-changing of its private contractors, like this AfPax Insider was retired and CIA boss Clarridge renames the network the ‘Eclipse Group.” Just as Blackwater became XE, and so on, we see all of these elements using the same tactic of constant name-changing, whenever publicity exposes the group to the world.

This nearly makes it impossible to trace the secret network using the Internet. If there were some way to “tag” these guys as they weave their way through the underworld, while they do their research and set up the very realistic false flag network, we might see a clear trail. We don’t really know which faction we are looking at, when we examine an actor element, like the anti-Taliban, whether you are looking at the Pakistani side of the psyop, which makes the action real, or the American side, which acts by impersonating the Pakistani Taliban element, which they are sometimes hunting.

Abdullah Mehsud spends several years at Baghram and Guantanamo in their conditioning programs.

He is released in Afghanistan, where he crosses the border with an unknown number of Northern Alliance and Uzbek fighters, armed to the teeth, and apparently loaded with cash and the latest communications equipment. This group stirs-up trouble in Wana and causes the creation of the first anti-Taliban militia, under Mullah Nazir, who battles the Uzbeks (only sites like Asia Times Online report it as “al-Qaeda” at the time), eventually evicting them from his area.

Baitullah Mehsud shelters the Uzbek rejects and shares them with Mullah Fazlullah in Swat, where they resume their “Sharia enforcing” attacks upon locals and launch a campaign of serial murder on tribal elders. Wherever the remnants of Abdullah Mehsud’s original Guantanamo-Army (perhaps a “Guantanarmy”?) went they mixed with groups fighting against the Pakistan Army and began a murderous terror-bombing campaign against funerals and mosques (mostly all Shia). What we have here is the anatomy of an active psyop, one staged to deceive the people of the world and convince us all that the American solution is the only solution–taking the war to Pakistan.

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Peter Chamberlin http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/is-the-fbi-using-spies-to-investigate-aid-workers-or-other-spies/