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Former CIA Chief in Algeria Investigated in Claimed Rapes There

Posted Jan 28, 2009 7:40 PM CST
By Martha Neil

An unidentified former CIA station chief in Algeria is being investigated by the U.S. Department of State and Department of Justice in at least two potential rape cases.

The investigation, which was initially based on complaints by two Algerian women that they had been raped by the official, began last fall. Authorities then apparently obtained a search warrant in U.S. district court and allegedly discovered a drug often used in date-rapes in the unnamed official's Algerian residence, as well as videotapes, reports CNN, citing unnamed sources.

"About a dozen tapes ... are thought to show the officer engaged in sexual acts, [a] source said, including some in which women are believed to be in a semiconscious state," the news agency writes.

The CIA official is no longer in Algeria; when he returned to the U.S. for a scheduled visit last year, he was reportedly ordered not to return. The investigation is now looking into whether any such incidents may have occurred in Cairo, Egypt, where the CIA official previously was stationed and where dates on the videotapes indicate they may have been filmed, CNN reports.

Although date-rape drugs are mentioned in the article, there is no indication that the Algerian women making the complaints were dating the official.

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B. McLeod
Jan 29, 2009 8:20 AM CST

These drugs were, in actuality, probably super-secret, CIA-interrogating-dangerous-terrorists drugs.  Oh, the things “unidentified station chiefs” have to endure in protecting our homeland.  Maybe J.D. can pin a medal on the man.

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Akman
Jan 29, 2009 9:21 AM CST

Isn’t this guy a converted muslim who was only following sharia law.

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J.D.
Jan 29, 2009 10:25 AM CST

Yes, he’s a muslim. Just a little fact that the leftist media doesn’t want you to think about. After all, Islam is very tolerant of womens’ rights.

Of course he should be punished, McLoed. The DoJ and DoS are both investigating; it’s not like this was part of an investigation.

Who knows. Maybe he did this with the goal of discrediting the U.S. and the CIA. There have been plenty of spies and other troublemakers in the FBI, CIA, and other security agencies.

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B. McLeod
Jan 29, 2009 10:35 AM CST

I think it is incorrect to suggest that Sharia supports drugging women for such purposes.

Perhaps you would share your sources on the claim that this unidentified statition chief was a Muslim?

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akman
Jan 29, 2009 10:41 AM CST

Here you go.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6750266&page=1

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larry
Jan 29, 2009 11:59 AM CST

Under Sharia law,

Mohammed said, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.” Vol. 9:57

Sounds barbaric to me.

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B. McLeod
Jan 29, 2009 12:26 PM CST

Akman, thanks for the link.  It provides much more content than the CNN report, including an ample identification of the CIA officer involved.  However, the ABC coverage also discloses that he was both serving and consuming alcoholic beverages, suggesting that the sincerity of any conversion to Islam (and his familiarity with Sharia) would be questionable.

Larry, Jesus said, “Think not that I am come to bring peace on Earth, for I bring not peace, but a sword, and I shall set a man against his father, and a father against his son, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s foes shall be those of his own household.”  (Sounds barbaric to me).

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