Volgens hem heeft al Qaida Amerikanen gevangen gemaakt 'in eastern Afghanistan, forcing U.S. troops to end the siege of their stronghold and withdraw. U.S. officials have denied the claim. [...] "We have no information at all about any American being taken prisoner ... it is totally inaccurate," added a U.S. Central Command spokesman, Charles Portman. A government official also rejected Gul's claim as "totally false," saying no CIA agents had been seized either. [...] Commenting on the claim of U.S. prisoners, Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said: "We have no servicemen missing."'

Dit verhaal doet sterk denken aan wat valt te lezen in het vuistdikke Defrauding America, een boek van Rodney Stich dat is samengesteld uit interviews met en documenten van uit de school klappende ex-agenten van CIA, DEA, FBI etc. In de derde editie van het boek staat schokkende informatie over de moordpartijen door de CIA op achtergebleven gevangenen uit de Vietnamoorlog. Stich schrijft over een 'experimental assassination unit [...] called the Secret Death Squad (SDS). The official CIA listing was MACSOGSDODV, or more fully, Military Assistance Command Strategic Operational Group Special Detachment, Department of Defense, Vietnam. De groep stond onder leiding van Robert L. Freeman en bestond inclusief Freeman uit 45 zwarte militairen. 'The group was turned loose in 1957 in Indochina [...] The CIA's intent was to destabilize the area [...]. In this operation the CIA wanted to create horror in the region so as to justify U.S. intervention.' (Zie in dit verband ook DaanSpeaks voorkennispagina). In 1958 vielen tenminste 20 Amerikaanse doden door toedoen van Freemans team: 'In each of the assasinations the scene was arranged to make it look like the attackers were Viet Minh or some group other than the United States. In a 1960 attack, the team killed eight American naval personnel, leaving evidence to blame the Viet Cong.
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Freeman described to me [Stich] how his team was ordered by his CIA handlers to assasinate American POWs [Prisoners Of War] and how his team carried out these orders. [...] In April of 1997 Freeman started providing me with documentation marked Top Secret that appeared very authentic. The documentation, some of which are shown in the following pages, show messages from Washington ordering the assasinations of American POWs, the carrying out of such orders, and other activities that Freeman had described. [...] In his April 5, 1997 reply he [Freeman] explained that his team could not extract the American POWs because North Vietnamese troops were at the POW compound. His team therefore followed instructions, and killed the American POWs. He explained that the reason for killing the POWs was so that they could not talk and compromise other GIs.
[...] If all this sounds too bizarre, consider what was said about killing American POWs in a New York Times book review (March 30, 1997) of the book Spite House, The Last Secret of the War in Vietnam. The book review made reference to the killing of American prisoners of war, and stated in part: 'In addition, her book shines a light into a dark corner of the war, the secret world of special operations conducted by clandestine military units working with, and for, the Central Intelligence Agency. In this world, torture, assassination, even the killing of fellow Americans were given official, if unwritten, sanction. We are told that United States ''hunter-killer'' teams, working from a list of suspected American deserters and defectors, had standing orders to kill them on sight. And, according to at least one former marine, that in 1973, after the signing of the peace accords, the C.I.A. assembled five-man sniper teams and paid them $12,000 to $25,000 a head for assassinating alleged renegade Americans. It is this aspect of the book that will undoubtedly shock American readers, who probably believe nothing about the Vietnam experience could surprise them at this point'.
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Several of my [Stich] other CIA sources, including Gunther Russbacher and Oswald LeWinter, both of whom had served several years in Vietnam, confirmed the killing of American POWs by American rescue groups. Russbacher admitted taking part in such assassinations, but explained that his group killed American POWs who were too sick to travel and who might be subjected to torture if they were not exterminated.'

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