[lbo-talk] WarWorx: CRS memo/MI Field Manual Scramble (Disinfo Alert!)

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<...> To summarize, the US State Department lists four attacks attributable 
to Al Qaeda in the total period of time prior to September 11th. In the 
thirty months immediately before September 11th, the US State Department 
lists one. In the thirty months after September 11, 2001, the picture is 
much more complicated, since the State Department has not yet published its 
assessment and we do not have completely reliable sources. Counting only 
those attacks that are widely attributed to Al Qaeda in open sources,... we 
estimate that there has been approximately ten Al Qaeda attacks since 
September 11, 2001 (not including any potential Al Qaeda-associated attacks 
in Iraq). <...>

http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/033104.pdf

from: CRS MEMO "Terrorist Attacks by Al Qaeda" by Audrey Kurth Cronin, 
Congressional Research Service, March 31, 2004, released by the House 
Government Reform Committee Minority:

See also "Al Qaeda After the Iraq Conflict" by the same CRS author from one 
year ago, May 23, 2003:

http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21529.pdf

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ARMY: NEW FIELD MANUAL ON INTELLIGENCE

The U.S. Army has issued a new Field Manual on intelligence that
sets forth in detail the roles and functions of intelligence in
Army and joint military operations.

The new Field Manual (FM) 2-0 is "the Army's keystone document
for military intelligence doctrine."

With conceptual rigor, the manual proceeds from "the fundamentals
of intelligence operations" to "intelligence considerations in
strategic readiness" and beyond.

A copy of the unclassified document was obtained by Secrecy News.

See FM 2-0, "Intelligence," dated 17 May 2004 (211 pages, 3.2 MB
PDF file):

      http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm2-0.pdf

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