We shouldn't be too surprised about this. Everyone does it to everyone eles, abd we just don't hear about it except when spooks get caught, like the Mossad agents in New Zealand.
Channel Nine's Sunday did a report yesterday morning. Included is an interview with retiring Indonesian intelligence chief General Mahmud Hendropriyono.
Transcript at http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1683.asp
He seems to have secured a mandate based on his policies of pre-emptive war, war on the environment, crony capitalism, veiled racism, homophobia and a fundamentalism that would make the Taliban proud... our country is split down the middle creating a cultural civil war that is not going away any time soon. It is a fight over values in which there is very little middle ground remaining. The stakes are extremely high for all we hold dear.
- John Passcantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace, 4.11.04
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