Surprise, surprise. The US won't invade Iran by itself; it has many willing accomplices in the EU. They are all "in on it."
Sorry for the length but I don't have a link:
What is "Camolin"?
A little-noticed report in Der Spiegel in November 2004 (13.11.04) revealed the existence of an intelligence operation called "Camolin" involving agencies from the USA, Germany, France, UK, Canada and Australia.
The operation set up in February 2003 is charged with tracking down Al-Qaeda suspects in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Its headquarters is in a military barracks close to Paris where regular meetings of the agencies take place backed up by a secure communications system. The role of the European agencies is to supply dossiers on suspects which the CIA then acts on.
The Der Speigel article stated the Germany was represented by the Federal Intelligence Agency and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Source: Webdiary
Filed 16 January 2006
See: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/05eu-camolin.htm
Codename Camolin
Before the invasion of Iraq, Webdiarist Alun Breward translated A think tank war: Why old Europe says no from der Spiegal which became Webdiary's most read piece. Today Alun has provided a major extract from another der Spiegal article on the secret service group 'Camolin', published today.
"I have not been able to establish if there is anything about it in the USA or UK media, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the Australian media. I hope it might be useful." Thanks Alun.
The Shady Ones
by Georg Mascolo and Holger Stark, Der Spiegal
[extract translated by Alun Breward]
European Intelligence Services are working together with the CIA in a Paris Anti-terror centre - their work is as delicate as it is secret.
The personnel were hand-picked and their work high risk. American secret service agents worked undercover with an international team - all of them hard men from the elite units of six nations. Of course there was a Briton, and even Old Europe was represented: a German took part, as did a French agent. The team, codename "Rainbow Six" liberated an Austrian millionaire from his kidnappers, preventing the release of a terrorist in exchange for the tycoon. All in a day's work for the Top Guns of the war against terror.
The heroes are fictional and come from Tom Clancy's "Operation Rainbow".
But reality has overtaken Clancy's fiction. Since February 2003 there has been a similar secret service group operating in Europe, in which all those nations that feature in Clancy's political thriller play a part.
Besides these countries Canada and Australia are involved. The secret group has the codename "Camolin" and aims, like its literary model, to hunt terrorists and prevent their attacks.
So delicate is the existence of these multinational terrorist-hunters that a spokeswoman for Interior Minister Otto Schily audaciously denied the first reports of the organisation. "There is no anti-terror-centre in which German officials take part" she said.
But there is, and their cooperation is a matter of great sensitivity.
For officially European states are distancing themselves from the hard-knuckled American fight against terrorism. Germany and France do not want to have anything to do with Guantanamo and the so-called Black Sites, where torture of suspects takes place, according to human rights groups.
On the other hand, international cooperation in this conflict is indispensable and for this reason the German government has dispatched an official of the Federal Intelligence agency, as well as a representative of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. They attend the regular Camolin meetings in a barracks on the outskirts of Paris.
The political difficulties with Camolin only truly begin after a successful mission: there are no guarantees what will happen with leaders of the jihad that are picked up as result of this transatlantic cooperation.
Camolin aims only to improve participants' reach - what happens with those they track down remains secret.
This Paris group must be understood as a unique entity. Only results count and the top secret foundation agreement anticipates that member nations will put all relevant information on the table. In this way Camolin has made it possible for the CIA to operate legally in Europe.
For the US government this information exchange is of huge importance: they regard Europe as the epicentre of jihad. The continent is "much more dangerous" than America, maintains John Negroponte, Director of the USA's national intelligence. "Ten million Muslims live there, and they are not integrated into society" he warns.
http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/2005/11/codename_camoli.html
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Germany: Government complicit in Iraq war -
Secret service BND remained in Baghdad and
supported US military in "identification of
targets", Panorama programme reveals: See:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/jan/04germany-iraq.htm
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UK: Telephone and communication interception reaches new high - now
three times more than when the Labour government came to powe in 1997:
Statewatch's Observatory on: Telephone tapping and mail-opening figures
1937- 2004:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/uk-tel-tap-rep-2004.htm
It is interesting to compare the UK figures with those for the USA, see:
The Centre for Democracy and Technology (USA, link):
http://www.cdt.org/wiretap/wiretap_overview.html
The comparable figures showed that in 2003 there were more interception
warrants issued in the UK than the whole of the USA. Figures for warrants
issued by the UK Foreign Office (for the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6
and for GCHQ) were only published 1980-1984.
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OBSERVATORY ON THE SURVEILLANCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE EU
Statewatch has launched an Observatory on the surveillance of
telecommunications in the EU - under mandatory data retention a record will
be kept of everyone's phone-calls, e-mails, mobile phone calls (including
location) and internet usage. The Council (the 25 EU governments) are
proposing the data can be accessed by law enforcement agencies for any
suspected crime, however minor. The proposal is now being discussed in the
European Parliament:
Observatory: http://www.statewatch.org/eu-data-retention.htm
and Critical Opinion of the Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/WP113.pdf
UK-EU: Data retention and police access in the UK - a warning for Europe:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/01uk-eu-police-access-to-data.htm
UK: Statement from the families of the men who have been detained
pending deportation to countries where they are certain to be tortured and
even killed:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/deportees-statement.pdf
The right to know or the right to try and find out? The need for an EU
freedom of information law, by Ben Hayes:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/nov/eu-FOI.pdf
Statewatch Observatory
The surveillance of telecommunications in the EU
http://www.statewatch.org/eu-data-retention.htm