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グローバル・リサーチ誌は、ウィキリークスが暴露したアフガニスタン戦争の「機密文書」を、パキスタンの元諜報部の責任者が「偽物だ」と否定していることを伝えています。
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20297
WikiLeaks Report Fictitious, Says Pakistan's Ex-Spy Chief Hamid Gul
この情報の元は７月２６日付のThe Christian Science Monitor紙です。
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0726/WikiLeaks-report-fictitious-says-Pakistan-s-ex-spy-chief-Hamid-Gul
WikiLeaks Report Fictitious, Says Pakistan's Ex-Spy Chief Hamid Gul
グローバル・リサーチ誌は、The Christian Science Monitor紙記事の引用の前に、次のような簡単な紹介を書いています。
WikiLeaks' release of classified US documents include claims that Pakistan's former spy chief Hamid Gul ordered attacks against NATO troops. Mr. Gul speaks with the Monitor about the WikiLeaks reports.
このような「暴露」をどこまで信用できるのかは、他の方面からの情報とつき合わせてみなければならないのですが、なにせ膨大な数の資料で、とうてい素人の手に負えるものではありません。
もちろんこの「パキスタンの元スパイの責任者」であるハミッド・グル氏の語る内容の信憑性も確認することができません。
ただ、スペイン紙エル・パイスに次のような内容の記事があり、私はこの「機密文書」の、少なくとも一部の資料の、信憑性に首をかしげています。
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/documentos/apuntan/colaboracion/Iran/Qaeda/elpepuint/20100727elpepuint_7/Tes
Los documentos apuntan a la colaboración de Irán con Al Qaeda
これは、ウィキリークスによる資料はイランとアルカイダの協力関係を記録している、さらに北朝鮮とアルジェリアがタリバンに武器を売っていることが書かれている、というないようです。
イランとアルカイダ？北朝鮮？
手術台の上でコウモリガサとミシンが出会うような、奇妙な組み合わせですが、何か、あまりにもどこかの国にとって都合の良い情報のような・・・。
機密をリークさせる場合、その中に意図的に偽情報を混ぜておく手は十分にありえます。ウィキリークスが先日のイラクでの市民とジャーナリスト虐殺ビデオをリークしたことで世界的に有名になり信頼を寄せる人が増えたことは、逆に言えば「利用できる」ということにもなるでしょう。
即座に事の真偽を判断するのではなく、いちおうは暴露を歓迎しながらも、慎重な態度で見ていかなければならないように思えます。
以下に、この記事全文を貼り付けておきます。
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WikiLeaks Report Fictitious, Says Pakistan's Ex-Spy Chief Hamid Gul
By Issam Ahmed, Correspondent / July 26, 2010
Islamabad, Pakistan -- The former chief of Pakistan’s spy agency has derided as “malicious, fictitious, and preposterous” the leaked United States military documents implicating him in a string of attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Hamid Gul’s name appears no less than eight times in documents leaked Sunday by the online whistle-blower WikiLeaks. In the reports, the retired general and former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1987 to 1989 is accused of ordering IED attacks against Afghan and international forces in December 2006 and of plotting to kidnap United Nations staff to use as hostages in exchange for militant prisoners.
The ISI is mentioned in at least 190 reports, and is accused of backing attacks against US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Afghanistan. In one report from March 2007, the ISI is alleged to have donated 1,000 motorcycles to militant leader Jalaluddin Haqqani to carry out suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan.
“This is utter nonsense,” Mr. Gul says in a telephone interview. Asked to respond to the various WikiLeaks reports in which his name appears, he replied: "Malicious, fictitious, and preposterous – and if this is the condition of US intelligence, then I am afraid it is no wonder they are losing in Afghanistan, and they will lose everywhere they try to poke their nose."
Gul has in the past called himself Washington's "darling" for playing a key role in the CIA's covert support of the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul the 1980s, and he was a principle architect of Pakistan's foreign strategy in Afghanistan. He has held no official position since 1992, though he is still seen as a well-connected military adviser.
“It’s a bloody shame for [the US] if a 74-year-old general sitting in his small house who has nothing to do within the ISI can pull this off,” he says, adding: “If I can pull off the defeat of America in Afghanistan, then history books will record it to my credit, and my future generations will rejoice over it.”
'I know your wrongdoings in Afghanistan'
WikiLeaks did not reveal the source of the leaked intelligence information, which was released weeks ago to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel, which analyzed the data and simultaneously published articles Sunday. In April, WikiLeaks released classified video footage of US military shooting a group of civilians alleged to be insurgents in Baghdad, including two staff from Reuters news agency. In May, the US arrested Bradley Manning, an American intelligence analyst suspected of providing the video to WikiLeaks.
Gul, however, says that the US itself has orchestrated the latest WikiLeaks exposé to shift attention away from its own failings in Afghanistan. Speaking in an elevated tone and at times furious, he says he believes the US may now use the exposé as a way to force Pakistan's hand on policy in Afghanistan.
"They [the Americans] want to bash Pakistan, at this time to come up with this leak. I refuse to believe it is not on purpose,” says Gul.
Pakistan, a country awash in conspiracy theories, is already buzzing with rumors that the US orchestrated the WikiLeaks exposé to undermine Pakistan and pave the way for military intervention here. Gul himself warns that any military intervention in Pakistan will send the country into turmoil. “You touch Pakistan on any pretext, it will ignite an inferno which will inflame every part of the region,” he says.
Gul says he is prepared to testify before US Congress to clear his name, adding that he is also prepared to share his own secrets about the US involvement in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “I know your wrongdoings in Afghanistan and deficiencies in your leadership, your involvement in the narcotics trade, and how your security complexes are minting money and cheating their own taxpayers,” he says.
WikiLeaks reports called into question
The leaked reports, which span from January 2004 to December 2009, reinforce a widely held Afghan and US view that the ISI has not cut its historical links to the Taliban, though the veracity of the reports cannot be independently confirmed and independent analysts have questioned their reliability.
Indeed, some of the reports appear implausible, such as a report from February 2007 that claims the ISI and Taliban insurgents planned to buy alcoholic drinks and “mix them with poison” to kill Afghan and ISAF troops.
Rifaat Hussain, a defense analyst at Islamabad’s Quaid-i-Azam University, says he believes the sources are disgruntled former members of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government operating with a political agenda.
“They apparently have made this public to embarrass the Karzai government and drive a wedge between Kabul and Pakistan, as well as create a fresh strain between Pakistan and the US,” he says.
Dr. Hussain also casts doubt on the veracity of the reports. Given the sheer number of reports leaked – some 92,000 in total – he says it is likely they are in raw form and unfiltered by intelligence analysts.
“Raw evidence is essentially material before it gets corroborated," he says, "which you collect from different sources before you know its solid or reliable or not."
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