Iran training thousands of Robert Mugabe's Security Spooks

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HARARE - Iranian Security agencies are training thousands of Zimbabwe’s ruthless secret spy services personnel at a secret base in Tehran, a move likely to further increase the rift between the feisty Robert Mugabe and the Western nations, particulary the United States.

The Zimbabwe Mail can reveal that batches of both armed forces personnel and members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) have been undergoing rigorous training on counter-intelligency and ruthless methods on how to suppress street protests by Civic groups and opposition forces.

Robert Mugabe’s most trusted and loyal cabinet member, Didymus Mutasa is on a visit to Iran to monitor the programme he commissioned three years ago when he was Minister of State Security before the coalition government was signed.

Zimbabwean young men and women recruited from the notorious party youths porgramms are being sent every six months for intensive training programs that include technological and chemical warfare.

During the run-up to the violent and aborted June 2008 Presidential run-off, opposition supporters were abducted, tortured and had their flesh on buttocks "eaten" up by some deadly chemicals administered by Robert Mugabe’s Secret Police.

Also on the training program list are some IT specialists who are being trained to smoke out cyber activists and crack down on websites and social networks.

A report in the Wall ST Journal says, the Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.

Interviews with technology experts in Iran and outside the country say Iranian efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to Web sites or severing Internet connections.
The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.

Deep packet inspection involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds.

The infiltration of Zimbabwean online traffic and websites explains why Robert Mugabe has strippe... ...

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