CIA vs NSA (was Re: Likely voice of Zawahiri

Just to clarify, it's the CIA that is charged with this work. The CIA 
is an intelligence-gathering organization. When we have spies in other 
countries, they are CIA agents.

The NSA's mission is two-fold: code-making to protect our secrets, and 
code-breaking to crack other nations secrets.  They wouldn't do 
anything with this unless the tape was scrambled, encrypted, or hidden 
in another message, and even then they'd hand it over to the CIA once 
their work was done.  You can almost think of the NSA as the IT 
department of the US intelligence community.

Oh and here's the article text for our CLI-tard friends.

CIA thinks tape 'likely' voice of al-Zawahiri
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/26/aljazeera.tape/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A CIA spokesman said Friday that the voice on an 
audiotape broadcast by an Arabic language TV channel is "likely" to be 
that of al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The CIA routinely analyzes such tapes to ascertain authenticity.

The spokesman said, "It is not clear when it was recorded," adding that 
the reference to Pakistani troops being in the tribal areas near the 
Afghan border could have been recorded any time in the past month or 
even longer.

  The tape calls on Pakistanis to overthrow President Pervez Musharraf 
-- a key ally of the United States in the war on terror.

  "Every Muslim in Pakistan must do his or her best in getting rid of 
this government, which cooperates with the enemies," the speaker on the 
tape says.

  The Arabic news network Al-Jazeera broadcast the taped statement 
Thursday.

The tape calls Pakistan's relatively automomous tribes in the northwest 
border region to resist government forces sent to search for al Qaeda 
fighters.

"These tribes, which defended Islam throughout all of its history, will 
not give up to one slave of America," the speaker says.

  He also calls Musharraf a traitor and "Muslim assassin."

  "After he played his deceiving role in killing thousands of Muslims in 
Afghanistan, the Americans began giving him new duties," the voice 
says.

  The speaker says Musharraf is helping the United States and its allies 
"suppress the Muslim nation" by cutting support for Islamic militants 
in Kashmir and betraying Pakistan's nuclear secrets.

In recent weeks, large numbers of Pakistani forces have moved into the 
mountainous tribal areas, where U.S. intelligence officials suspect 
al-Zawahiri and bin Laden may have taken refuge.

Last Thursday, Musharraf said Pakistani troops had cornered a 
"high-value target" in the region, and other Pakistani officials said 
they suspected that target was al-Zawahiri. But they backed away from 
those reports as the standoff and fighting continued through the 
weekend.

The voice on the tape does not mention the region where the fighting 
has been taking place, Waziristan, but it does mention two different 
tribes of the area.

  The tape appears to have been recorded later than February, when 
Pakistan's military the troops into the mountains.

The tape attempts to appeal to Pakistanis' pride by saying that 
surprise searches, arrests and other operations being conducted by the 
Pakistani military along the border are insulting, according to Octavia 
Nasr, CNN senior editor for Arab affairs, who reviewed the recording. 
The voice urges residents of the region to stand up for themselves.

The 52-year-old al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian national, is considered to be 
Osama bin Laden's closest adviser and is viewed by many analysts as the 
operational brains behind the al Qaeda terror network.

Al-Zawahiri is one of the most-wanted terrorists in the United States. 
He was indicted along with bin Laden for his alleged role as mastermind 
of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that 
killed 224 people.

U.S. government sources also believe he played a significant role in 
the September 11, 2001, attacks.

On Mar 26, 2004, at 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> http://www.cnn.com/
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> Ok, how much does NSA get a year?  It's classified so it must be crazy 
> billions.  I have not heard of one time the NSA has said yes it is 
> whoever they are analyzing on tape.  It's always "likely".  I wish I 
> could have a job where I could be that fucking vague.
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