Kuwaiti resistance figure during the 1990–91 Iraqi occupation; per John Kiriakou, a "bona fide hero" whose telephone reporting on Iraqi troop movements, roadblocks, atrocities, and the location of inspections reached the CIA every single day via NSA call interception — Kiriakou's account of the resistance figure who best understood how to weaponize the certainty that the Americans were listening to everything.
Asel al-Ghabandi was a member of the Kuwaiti resistance during the 1990–91 Iraqi occupation. Per John Kiriakou she was “a bona fide hero,” and the resistance figure who best understood how to use the telephone — knowing that the NSA was intercepting every call and would forward the transcripts to the CIA and the Pentagon.[1][2]
Kiriakou: “We were getting her reporting literally every single day. Every single day. And she’s talking about Iraqi troop movements and where the roadblocks are and where the inspections are. She was talking about Iraqi atrocities, because the Iraqis as soon as they arrived, they started raping and killing and pillaging and stealing. They were monsters.”[3][4]
