Intelligence From Falluja Is Said to Alter Strategy Information about guerrillas gathered during military operations in Falluja is giving commanders insights into the next phase of the insurgency, and helping them reshape the American counterinsurgency campaign, senior Pentagon and military officials say.
General Aussaresses, now 82 and once one of the most secretive men in the French security apparatus, said that torture had been routine and widely condoned by his superiors as the fastest way to get information about guerrilla activities.
But Marshall McLuhan predicted that the Third World War would be "a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation," and that's exactly what it has turned out to be.
They kidnapped an apolitical security guard, tortured him for information on his guerrilla brother, and, realising he knew nothing, bashed in his head with a shovel and hid the body.
Mr. Alejo said his military torturers had grilled him for information about the Shining Path guerrillas, who had recently begun operating in the area.
Investigators also relied on information provided by former guerrilla fighters, who implicated Mr. López.
The army statement did not say when or where the 12 were arrested, but said they were part of a "terrorism and spy network" that gathered information about the Hezbollah guerrilla group, which fought Israeli forces in south Lebanon for 18 years before Israel's withdrawal last May.
During the last two decades, 22 guards and a deputy governor of the Maze were killed outside the prison by guerrillas acting on information from inside.
Anderson's sisters aided the guerrillas by gathering information inside Union territory.
Her entries mix information about battles, wounded neighbors, guerrilla warfare and violence along with descriptions of domestic life, school assignments, social events and scores of local people struggling to maintain their lives as best they could in the midst of Civil War.
