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IPS News & Reuters report on a new Harper's interview with the former senior CIA official, Emile Nakhleh, who retired at the end of June as director of the agency's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program.It's a terrifying look into the mind of the senior IC community leadership:
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But the CIA program's former director, Emile Nakhleh, played down the problem and estimated only two to three percent of the world's 1.4 billion Muslims were politically active."Political Islam is not a threat," Nakhleh, who retired from the CIA in June, said in an interview posted on the web site of Harper's magazine.
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In an interview published this week by the online edition of Harper's Magazine, Emile Nakhleh, who retired at the end of June as director of the agency's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Programme, said that the Bush administration's tactics had "lost a generation of goodwill in the Muslim world" and its Middle East democratisation programme "has all but disappeared, except for official rhetoric".
I'm sorry, but did I miss the last 36 years of Middle East history or something?What "good will" is he talking about?
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And to be honest, neither do folks like Mr. Nakhleh.