The “Dark Prince” or “Ayatollah Mike” Michael D'Andrea killed in plane shot down
- CIA Middle East chief, Soleimani Killer and Bin Laden Hunter, dead on Jet in Afghanistan. Tasnim and Mirror told after VT
The “Dark Prince” or “Ayatollah Mike” Michael D'Andrea killed in plane shot down
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January 28, 2020
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT iTaly
VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO
The news is so big that we have to write it running the risk of a denial, even if at the moment it is confirmed by two intelligence sources not better identified. And a little curious riddle in his Wikipedia history…
“Ayatollah Mike”, the mysterious and very dangerous Michael D’Andrea, commander of the Central Intelligence Agency of Langley (Virginia) in operations in the Middle East would have been killed in the crash of the US Air Force military plane crashed yesterday in central Afghanistan on which CIA, NSA officers were traveling ( National Security Agency).
The death of the crew was reported by the Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujah, who in a statement released a few hours after the accident (and reported by Il Giornale in Italy) described the incident as follows: «A special American plane was flying for an intelligence mission in the Sadukhil area, Dehk district, Ghazni province. The entire aircraft crew and several senior CIA officers from the United States were killed. The wreckage and bodies of the deceased are still in the area».
The news of the alleged death of D’Andrea has been previous posted by on Veterans Today inside the investigations on the disaster of the Bombardier / Northrop Grumman E-11A. An then in my website Gospa News.
Later, in the last hours, the iranian website Tasnim relaunched the topic. Then the other iranian outlet Mizan, the mouthpiece for Tehran’s Judiciary, did, according to the British media Mirror that write an item about, in wich recalled the VT scoop. Lastly also Jerusalem Post reported the news.
«There were conflicting claims over the number of dead and people on board, with the Taliban claiming it recovered six bodies, an Afghan police chief saying four were dead and two were missing, and a US official stating the jet was carrying fewer than five people. The US has not yet commented on reports that Michael D’Andrea was on board the jet and among those killed» reports Mirror.
Michael d’Andrea, CIA operations chief for the Middle East
«The downed plane was the mobile CIA command for Michael D’ Andrea, head of operations against Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, America’s most advanced spy platform and mobile command center with all equipment and documents now in enemy hands» reads on VT.
«VT Damascus: (Russian intelligence sources confirm) It has been reported that (Mike de Andrea) responsible for the assassination file of the martyr Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in the accident of the American plane that was shot down in Afghanistan. He is the most prominent figure of the CIA intelligence in the region. The CIA top official was killed in the US bomber crash in Afghanistan».
At the moment there is no confirmation from the Pentagon even on the nature of the accident and on the victims therefore the presence of Michael d’Andrea, also nicknamed Dark Prince because coordinator of the activities of the National Clandestine Service, the dark arm of the CIA licensed to kill, remains shrouded in mystery.
«A U.S. Bombardier E-11A crashed today in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. While the cause of crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire. We will provide additional information as it becomes available» it is the only concise official press release issued on Twitter by the spokesman for the US Force Army Col Sonny Leggett.
If the commander of all the CIA operations in the Middle East is really died on the crashed spy plane, this would represent sensational news that could create even greater instability in relations between the US and Afghanistan after the tensions with Iran for the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC or Pasdaran), who died in the attack carried out by a Ud Air Force drone near the airport of Tehran last 3 January together with Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis, deputy commander of the Iraqi Hashid paramilitary troops of the People’s Mobilization Forces.
The Iranian news website Tasnim has posted the news of the killing of D’Andrea in an article with many details in which it mentions Veterans Today and also Gospa News, as the first sources of this sensational indiscretion.
The Tasnim.com page of January 28 with machine translating by Farsi (Persian) in English
The position of the Taliban about the crash is ambiguous. Previously, in a press release in Pashtu language, they claimed the shooting down of the “American occupation” plane, as reported by the Tasnim news agency, but subsequently released a press statement that referred instead the shootings of an unknown number of helicopters and aircrafts by the Mujaheddin without explicit reference to the Bombardier / Northrop Grumman E-11A.
May be that they realized only later the importance of the downed plane’s travellers within the leaders of American intelligence on board. An harsh action that could trigger heavy bombing retaliation by the US Air Force.
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«Since 2017, D’ Andrea has run the CIA’s false flag and assassination programs in the Middle East, allegedly responsible not only for the murder of General Soleimani but the killing of 300 Iraqi demonstrators as well» Veterans Today writes again referring to the recent statements by the Iraqi prime minister and the Armed Forces command spokesman, reported in the previous Gospa News reportage, regarding killer infiltrations among the rioters to further inflame the protests as happened in 2014 in Piazza Madian in Kiev, during the coup in Ukraine supported by American President Barack Obama.
But Ayatollah Mike’s resume is truly impressive. Therefore we report in full the Wikipedia entry which cites as many as 10 different authoritative sources to support the information. In wiche happened a big mistery…
When we write first version of this post whe highlighted that the biography starting with “Michael d’Adrea was an officer” as a confirmation of his death. Now, an hour after the posting of the item the sentence has been modified. But no problem! We have the screenshot that demonstrate the first version. A simple mistake of writing??? Maybe but this coincidence, about a secret agent history, seems more an attempt of coverage…
The earlier version of Micheal D’Andrea’s biography in Wikipedia starts with “was”
«Michael D’Andrea is/was (?) an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, that in 2017 was appointed to head the Agency’s Iran Mission Center. He was a major figure in the search for Osama bin Laden, as well as the American drone striketargeted killing campaign» starts biography on Wikipedia.
D’Andrea was raised in Northern Virginia. He met his wife while working overseas with the Central Intelligence Agency, and converted to Islam in order to marry her (for this reason his nickname became Ayatollah Mike). His wife, Faridah Currimjee D’Andrea is a daughter of a wealthy Muslim family from Mauritius with Gujarati origins.
D’Andrea joined the CIA in 1979, and he was considered an underperformer atCamp Peary. D’Andrea reportedly began his overseas career in Africa, and he is listed as a foreign service officer at the Embassy of the United States in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. D’Andrea previously served as chief of station in Cairo,Egypt and later in Baghdad, Iraq. D’Andrea was reportedly one of the CIA officials who failed to track Nawaf al-Hazmi, who would later participate in the September 11 attacks.
D’Andrea became head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center in 2006, replacingRobert Grenier. This is the exact year in which George Bush jr began to finance the Syrian rebels and terrorists to prepare for the civil war planned by the CIA since 1983 as shown by the Gospa News reports.
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During his nine-year tenure, D’Andrea presided over hundreds of American drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, advocating for the program to the United States Congress. In 2015, leadership of the drone program was passed to Chris Wood, following bureaucratic reshuffling by Director John O. Brennan. During his time at the Counterterrorism Center many reporters referred to him only by the codename “Roger”, which was considered unusual for an official not posted overseas.
During the hunt for Osama bin Laden, D’Andrea directed an analysis of competing hypotheses as to who, besides Osama bin Laden, could be in the targeted compound in Abbottabad.
D’Andrea’s operatives also oversaw the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, which a United States Senate report described as torture.
He was reportedly involved in the assassination of Hezbollah member Imad Mughniyah in Damascus, Syria. He received much blame for the Camp Chapman attack in Khost, Afghanistan, when seven CIA operatives were killed by a suicide bomber, who was allegedly backed Pakistan’s ISI.
D’Andrea was the inspiration for the character of “The Wolf” in Kathryn Bigelow’sZero Dark Thirty.
Now all that remains is to wait for the moment when there will be any official confirmation of the death of Ayatollah Mike or any denial by the CIA.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
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