Wikileaks: US ‘Exporter of Terrorism’
Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published a recent CIA paper examining the implications of the US being perceived as an "exporter of terrorism".
The three-page report from February 2010 says the participation of US-based individuals in terrorism is "not a recent phenomenon".
According to Haaretz, the report, which highlights attacks by US-based or US-financed Jewish, Muslim and Irish-American terrorists, questions how foreign perceptions of the US could change with continued attacks.
The memo, titled What If Foreigners See the United States as an 'Exporter of Terrorism'?, concludes that if the US is perceived by other nations as an "exporter of terrorism", those countries may be less willing to co-operate with the US in the detention, transfer and interrogation of future suspects.
Those perceptions could even lead to the arrest of CIA or other American agents overseas, according to the documents.
Wikileaks on 23 July published 76,000 secret US military logs detailing military actions in Afghanistan, an act the US authorities described as highly irresponsible, and will soon publish 15,000 further sensitive documents.
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