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Reported by Newsweek: What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon's latest approach is being called "the Salvador option" — and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried... Posted Sat 05/21/2005
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking US officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the US Congress cut military aid. Kissinger's OK led to at least 10,000 deaths in the next 7 years. Posted Mon 12/08/2003
Seymour Hersh reports in The New Yorker that the new Task Force 121 death squad will use members of the "upper ranks of the old Iraqi intelligence services" to "provide information about individual [Iraqi] insurgents for the Americans to act... Posted Mon 12/08/2003
From the NY Times: The top American military commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists throughout the region, according to Pentagon and military officials. The new... Posted Thu 11/13/2003
It's hardly a surprise, but USA Today reports that three sources confirm elite US Delta Force units have been assigned to assassinate Saddam Hussein, his sons, and "at least a dozen" of Iraq's top military and political leaders. "It's what... Posted Thu 03/20/2003
The Bush administration has been seeking Israel's counsel on creating a legal justification for the assassination of terrorism suspects. Legal experts from the United States and Israel have met in recent months to discuss the issue, and are considering widening... Posted Fri 02/28/2003
The NY Times reports that President Bush has issued secret written authorization for the CIA to "hunt down and kill" top Al Qaida leaders. The CIA is empowered to engage in such assassination operations without advance approval of each op. A hit list -- or "lethal force list" -- has been drawn up and includes about 2 dozen people. However, sources claim that Bush "has not waived the executive order banning assassinations." Posted Fri 12/20/2002
Anonymous sources in the Admin tell AP that Bush's secret 2001 finding authorizing the CIA to assassinate terrorists also tacitly includes American citizens as potential targets. Evidently, classifying an American as fair game can be done after the fact, in... Posted Wed 12/04/2002
Senior intelligence officials confirm that a secret finding recently signed by President Bush, building on an earlier one by President Clinton, grant the CIA legal authority to conduct assassination operations against individuals designated as terrorists. As a result, the CIA is devising strategy and policy to that end, and is developing assets for assassinations within both the CIA and "uniformed military units," as well as foreign agents in Middle Eastern countries. Officials within the CIA are reportedly adamant that there be a clear paper trail indicating authorization for assassination ops come from the President in order to avoid accusations the Agency is acting on its own, as happened during Congressional investigations during the 1970s. Posted Wed 10/31/2001
From the Guardian (UK): President Bush has given the CIA an explicit go-ahead to carry out covert missions to assassinate Osama bin Laden and his supporters around the world, effectively lifting a 25-year ban on such activities. The US defence... Posted Wed 10/31/2001
