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The Sunday Times - World
May 01, 2005
Paris agents plotted to kill UK militants
Matthew Campbell, Paris
A FORMER French secret agent has described how he was sent to Britain to prepare the ground for the assassinations of Islamic radicals suspected of planning a bombing campaign against the World Cup.
Pierre Martinet, a former member of the DGSE, France’s foreign intelligence service, was one of half a dozen French agents who crossed the Channel as “tourists” on the Eurostar train a few months before the 1998 World Cup in France to spy on potential targets.
They included Abu Walid, a Saudi Arabian suspected of links with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), an Algerian terror organisation that had killed eight people and injured more than 100 in a Paris bombing campaign in 1995.
MartinetÂ’s job was to keep the targets under surveillance until the order was given to eliminate them: the DGSE, unlike BritainÂ’s MI6, is a military organisation with a reputation for ruthlessness dating from 1985 when it blew up Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace protest vessel, in New Zealand.
“We knew the British government would not like it,” said Martinet, a 41-year-old former paratrooper, discussing his mission to “Londonistan”.
“No government likes it when a foreign country tries to sort out people on its territory. But we had information that certain people were planning to wreck the World Cup. In Paris the police were planning big raids.”
In his memoir, An Agent Comes Out of the Shadows, Martinet, who retired from the service on the eve of the September 11 attacks against America in 2001, claims the DGSE was responsible for 150 assassinations in the Algerian war of independence. He does not know if it has killed so far in the war against terror. “I can only assume so,” he said last week.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2089-1592511%2C00.html -
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I have no problem with people belonging to terror organisations being dead, especially Islamic ones as they have been killing and maiming innocents for the past 60 years without respite.
But the only problem with assassinating folks is that we have to trust that the agents killed the RIGHT people. But since the victims are dead before they could talk, who's to know they killed the right guys?
So in the end, although the justice system is not perfect, it is still better than govt agents going around shooting first and asking questions later. -
Despite what the former DGSE claimed in his memoir, the fact remains that the DGSE did not carry out any killing during that World Cup.
And DGSE's record for such covert job hasn't been very clean, thats why they focus their killings more in Algeria. Oh! I almost forgot that they( the whole French military ) also screwed up a recent U.N peacekeeping mission & ended up demanding the U.S to clean up their mess.
But with regards to assassinations, its not always as easy as walking up to the target & shooting him at point blank. When a government approved an assassination, government assassins don't usually hit the wrong target as the evidences to justify the kill is usually gathered & presented to the designated government bodies for approval.
Usually government sanction kills are for targets that can't be brought before a court of law either because the target is in a country that protects him/her or the evidences against the target isn't strong enough to bring before a court of law, etc. But as the target is considered a clear & present danger, the last option is to assassinate the target.
I may be wrong but the most successful assassination during the 70s to the 90s are from either the former USSR, Israel & the U.K. -
What mission was that?Originally posted by John Ching:Oh! I almost forgot that they( the whole French military ) also screwed up a recent U.N peacekeeping mission & ended up demanding the U.S to clean up their mess. -
It was one of the African states.Originally posted by lwflee:What mission was that?
Best to ask the French about it.
Oops! They just might've wipe it out from their records like the Japs are doing with their history books. -
yeah.. kill those militants..
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DGSE does all sorts of funny shit. Look at 1985 bombing of Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, in New Zealand. Green activisits also want to disturb.
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/rainbow_warrior/bombing_of_1985/who_was_responsible.html
The best in these sort of assassinations are probably still the Israelis.