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Craig Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n The GCHQ listening post on Mount Troodos in Cyprus is arguably the most valued asset which the UK contributes to\u00a0UK\/US\u00a0intelligence cooperation.\u00a0 The communications intercept agencies, GCHQ in the UK and NSA in the US, share all their intelligence reports (as do the CIA and MI6).\u00a0 Troodos is valued enormously by the NSA.\u00a0 It monitors all radio, satellite and microwave traffic across the Middle East, ranging from Egypt and Eastern Libya right through to the Caucasus.\u00a0 Even almost all landline telephone communication in this region is routed through microwave links at some stage, picked up on Troodos.<\/p>\n Troodos\u00a0is highly effective \u2013 the jewel in the crown of British intelligence.\u00a0 Its capacity and efficiency, as well as its reach, is staggering.\u00a0 The US do not have their own comparable facility for the Middle East.\u00a0 I should state that I have actually been inside all of this facility and been fully briefed on its operations and capabilities, while I was head of the FCO Cyprus Section in the early 1990s.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is fact, not speculation.<\/p>\n It is therefore very strange, to say the least, that John Kerry claims to have access to communications intercepts of Syrian military and officials organising chemical weapons attacks, which intercepts were not available to the British Joint Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n On one level the explanation is simple.\u00a0 The intercept evidence was provided to the USA by Mossad,<\/strong> according to my own well\u00a0 placed source in the Washington intelligence community.\u00a0 Intelligence provided by a third party is not automatically shared with the UK, and indeed Israel specifies it should not be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n But the inescapable question is this.\u00a0 Mossad have nothing comparable to the Troodos operation.\u00a0 The reported content of the conversations fits exactly with key tasking for Troodos, and would have tripped all the triggers.\u00a0 How can Troodos have missed this if Mossad got it?\u00a0 The only remote possibility is that all the conversations went on a purely landline route, on which Mossad have a physical wire tap, but that is very unlikely in a number of ways\u00a0– not least nowadays the purely landline route.<\/p>\n Israel has repeatedly been involved in the Syrian civil war, carrying out a number of illegal bombings and missile strikes over many months.\u00a0 This absolutely illegal activity by Israel- which has\u00a0killed a great many civilians, including children –\u00a0has brought no condemnation at all from the West.\u00a0 Israel has now provided \u201cintelligence\u201d to the United States designed to allow the United States to join in with Israel\u2019s bombing and missile campaign.<\/p>\n The answer to the Troodos Conundrum is simple.\u00a0 Troodos did not pick up the intercepts because they do not exist.\u00a0 Mossad fabricated them.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 John Kerry\u2019s \u201cevidence\u201d is the shabbiest of tricks.\u00a0 More children may now be blown to pieces by massive American missile blasts.\u00a0 It is nothing to do with humanitarian intervention.\u00a0 It is, yet again, the USA acting at the behest of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n craigmurray.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Craig Murray The GCHQ listening post on Mount Troodos in Cyprus is arguably the most valued asset which the UK contributes to\u00a0UK\/US\u00a0intelligence cooperation.\u00a0 The communications intercept agencies, GCHQ in the UK and NSA in the US, share all their intelligence reports (as do the CIA and MI6).\u00a0 Troodos is valued enormously by the NSA.\u00a0 It 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