[After training a generation of Israeli killing snipers] CIA sets up
department to implement the road map
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=276013
By Aluf Benn Ha'aretz 24 March 2003

[IMRA: To the CIA's credit they did an excellent job training a generation
of Palestinian snipers. The problem was that instead of using their skills
to fight Palestinian terrorists, these CIA trained snipers have been
murdering Israelis ever since.

The CIA faces a tremendous conflict-of-interest challenge when put in the
"monitoring" role. The CIA is involved in American efforts to deal with
terrorists impacting American interests around the world and the Palestinian
security officials have intimate contacts and relations with their terrorist
brothers around the world. The CIA can ignore illegal Palestinian activity
in return for Palestinian information and assistance relating to other
terrorist groups.

It should also be kept in mind that the CIA's mandate is not to serve the
truth but to serve American interests. If it serves American interests to
proclaim that night is day, up is down or that the Palestinians are in
compliance the CIA will do just that.

Speculation? Hardly. Representatives of the CIA were sharing pitas and
coffee with Palestinian security officials while they were busy coordinating
and directing terrorist operations and weapons producing projects. The CIA
didn't expose the operations - Israel did.]

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is establishing a special department
that will be responsible for implementing the road map for an
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

According to reports reaching Jerusalem, the CIA officers will coordinate
supervision and monitoring of the implementation of the road map, and track
both sides' implementation of their responsibilities.

One team within the CIA department will focus on the reorganization of the
Palestinian security services.

The CIA move is seen as an indication of the seriousness with which the
Americans intend to see the road map implemented. A government source said
last night that the U.S. administration is getting ready to implement the
plan, with an emphasis on the security aspects as the key to any progress.

That's why the CIA got the job, said the source, noting that in the past the
CIA was involved in helping to form and structure the Palestinian security
services, and it sat in on the security coordination efforts between Israel
and the PA.

In the past, Israel agreed to a small CIA team monitoring the territories,
to track possible cease-fires and to supervise Palestinian reforms. But the
current CIA department is much larger than that.

CIA Director George Tenet prepared a cease-fire plan two years ago, that
Israel and the PA never implemented, which has evolved into the security
core of the road map. Tenet visited Israel two and a half weeks ago for
meetings with PM Ariel Sharon and the heads of the intelligence community.

According to the American plan, the U.S. will head the supervising mechanism
of the road map's implementation, helped by the other members of the
Quartet - Russia, the EU and UN - and other elements, a possible hint of
direct British involvement.

The supervising mechanism will include four committees: the security
committee will deal with reforms in the PA security apparatus and renewing
security coordination, monitoring Palestinian activity against terror as
well as the army's withdrawals from PA areas. The special operations
committee will deal with the settlement freeze, evacuation of the illegal
outposts, a cessation of the incitement and reopening of Palestinian
institutions in East Jerusalem. Two other committees will deal with civil
reforms in the PA, and humanitarian affairs.