Alec Station
Under the code name " Alec Station ", the special department of the US foreign intelligence service CIA , formally known as the Bin Ladin Issue Station , became known to the general public in 2006 , and since January 1996 it has been tasked with this as a unit of the US Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) was to find and observe Osama bin Laden and have him arrested or liquidated in later years . Abandoned at the end of 2005 after around nine years without any noteworthy success despite high spending. It was reported that despite the immense investment of money, the department was poorly equipped and had hardly any members with suitable foreign language skills . This is taken as an indication that the CIA was never really interested in bin Laden's capture.
Since the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on June 7, 2006 was a success in the so-called war on terror , the dissolution of the department was only made public a year later.
Web links
- CIA Insider Says Osama Hunt Flawed. on: cbsnews.com , September 15, 2004.
- Top Guns - A critic of Washington's intelligence world turns his sights on the Iraq invasion. on washingtonpost.com , June 6, 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MARK MAZZETTI: CIA Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden. In: New York Times. July 4, 2006, accessed September 3, 2014 .