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Title: Robert Baer (former CIA officer in Iraq)
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BBC News
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/2549937.stm
Published: Mar 4, 2006
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2006-03-04 11:08:34 by robin
Keywords: (former, officer, Robert
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Robert Baer The former CIA officer was one of the key men operating inside Iraq during the aborted uprising in 1995. At the time, he was one of the CIA operatives who encouraged an uprising from within the country. The US of course didn't step in to help the revolution and it was brutally crushed. Baer is a man with considerable intelligence experience and real experience of the Middle East. Critical He worked for the CIA's Directorate of Operations for more than two decades and spent most of his career in the Middle East, with postings in Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq as well as Tajikistan, India and Europe. He is also an Arabic speaker he was considered one of the best on the ground field officers in the Middle East. He claimed the CIA was not listening, and criticised the organisation for not listening to early intelligence warnings about the September 11 attacks. Lucky Baer added: "They'd made up their mind before 11 September that no terrorism was going to reach US shores and in 1993 the first World Trade Centre bombing was an accident, people got lucky and we don't have to worry about it." He has also published a book about his time within the CIA. The memoirs are entitled See No Evil: The True Story Of A Ground Soldier In The CIA's War Against Terrorism. Poster Comment: The movie with George Clooney "See No Evil" is Baer's story and he is the inspiration for Syriana. He said 20 years ago that would have been a great pick-up line "George Clooney played me in a movie". CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it." This is a link to a DailyKos review of the movie All Things Considered (on Bob Baer) All Things Considered, December 6, 2005 · Former CIA officer Robert Baer's book See No Evil inspired the new film Syriana, about the Middle East, the oil industry and espionage. Baer discusses the film and separates cinematic fact from fiction.
Bob Baer is someone to watch, I saw him on Bill Maher's show, "Real Time" last night. He is very well spoken and put the ME in simple terms. For example, he said that Bush doesn't like democracies, that the ME is all sheikdoms, that Iraq was ruled for 300 years by someone like Saddam and it will never be a democracy. Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer, Inspiration for 'Syriana'
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#1. To: siagiah, justlurking, Dakmar, ++film critics++ (#0)
Have you seen Syriana? It is based on Baer's book "See No Evil".
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." ~Plato
George Clooney just won best supporting actor for his part as the character based on Robert Baer in the movie Syriana, based on Robert Baer's book See No Evil.
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. ~George W. Bush
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