(Washington News) The Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. officials that US intelligence agencies almost stopped surveillance on Hamas and other Palestinian violent organizations after the terrorist attack in 2001.Caidda Organization and Islamic State Leaders.
These officials said that considering that Hamas never threatened the United States directly, and there were other priority spy work in the United States, Washington gave Hamas's responsibility to Israel and believed that Israeli security agencies will be able to be able to be able to be able to be able toFind any threat.
A counter -terrorist official pointed out that this should be "secure bets."But some officials now believe that the United States has misjudged Hamas's threat to US national security.Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7 caused dozens of Americans to die or disappear. As the conflict expanded to become a regional war, the United States has deployed military assets worth billions of dollars in the Middle East.
Retired US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation officials Marc Polymeropoulos said: "As far as information is concerned, the problem is mainly on Israel, but I think we should not be able to get in advance in advanceI found some responsibilities for this attack. "
It is reported that before the attack, a few analysts in the American intelligence agency were tracking the situation of the Gaza Strip, but the United States still mainly relies on Israel in this regard.Bayeng government officials said that both Israel and American intelligence agencies failed to warn Hamas attacks.
The Director of the CIA Bernus warned earlier this year that the tension with the Pakistani intensified and the violence may occur.
U.S. Guoan adviser Sha Liewen wrote before the outbreak of Harbin conflict: "Although the Middle East still faces long -term challenges, this area is relatively calm than in the past few decades ... In the face of severe friction, we have eased the sand of the sand.And restore direct diplomacy that lacked the parties over the years. "
Jonathan Schanzer, a former Territory Financial Analyst of the US Treasury, believes that Hamas's attack should prompt the United States to re -examine the policy of supporting agent organizations in Iran, otherwise "it will be an unexpected foreign policy."