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CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when
agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta last month,
according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Seems to me that if we can cut the head of the snake off with some special ops teams that it would be better and cheaper than using the army to try and do the same thing. Whats upsetting is how easily our politicians are leaking these secrets.
Too bad they called it off, or it wasn't implemented years ago.
How many have a problem with hit squads looking for UBL?
Isn't that kinda of what are SpOps have been hoping to do?
Apparently it would be sanctionable under international law and U.S. law if such activities were conducted by the military, it is just patently illegal if pursued by the CIA.
Every nation has its CIA and it is perfectly legal to assasinate the heads of al Queida. Hard par is that al Quieda is not a country so anyone we assasinate is a citizen of a country we are not at war with.
Every nation has its CIA and it is perfectly legal to assasinate the heads of al Queida. Hard par is that al Quieda is not a country so anyone we assasinate is a citizen of a country we are not at war with.
If only those two sentences made any sense...
Every nation does indeed have a major intelligence apparatus.
No is isn't legal to assassinate the leaders of al Qaeda.
The fact that al Qaeda is not a country makes the assassination of their leadership by a foreign civilian agent or agency illegal.
CIA officials were proposing to activate a plan to train anti-terrorist assassination teams overseas when
agency managers brought the secret program to the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta last month,
according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The program was in the planning stages for 8 years and never implemented....it had been canceled and re-activated more than once during those 8 years as well.
AP sources: Tenet canceled secret CIA hit teams - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_go_ot/us_cia_secret_program - broken link)
Quoting from the link that you gave from the Washington Post:
"Some U.S. officials familiar with the program say it never progressed beyond concepts and feasibility studies, but others described more advanced preparations, including selection of teams and limited training. All of the attempts ultimately had to be scrapped, often because of logistical difficulties or because the risks were deemed too great, said several officials who served in counterterrorism units or had access to top-secret files. The program was active in fits and starts, and it was essentially killed in 2004 because it was deemed ineffective, former and current intelligence officials said. It reemerged briefly in 2005 but remained largely dormant until this year. Two U.S. officials with detailed knowledge of current CIA operations said the agency presented Panetta last month with new plans for moving forward with training for potential members of the assassination teams -- activities that would have involved "crossing international boundaries," in the words of a former counterterrorism official briefed on the matter. "When a CIA unit brought the program to Panetta's attention, it came with a recommendation to brief Congress since there was some thought being given to moving toward a somewhat more operational phase -- that is, a little training," said an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the events."
Did you pick the quote you used to (as you would say) put a spin on it or did you just not read the entire article you linked to? The program was dormant until this year....it was recommended to Panetta to brief congress since their was thought of now moving towards making program operational. It says he terminated the program because of "concerns about it's feasibility".....which is the same reason it's been canceled in the past as well.
It's not like this program was a run away train started by Cheney and when Panetta found out about it he stepped in and canceled it right away.
United States Army School of the Americas: Background and Congressional Concerns
Human Rights Violations.
As reflected in the 1993 debate, most concerns about the School have centered on graduates who have been implicated in--or are alleged to be responsible for-human rights violations in their countries. According to critics, the School has a history and tradition of abusive graduates who violate human rights. Observers point out that School alumni include: 48 out of 69 Salvadoran military members cited in the U.N. Truth Commission's report on El Salvador for involvement in human rights violations (including 19 of 27 military members implicated in the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests), 2 and more than 100 Colombian military officers alleged to be responsible for human rights violations by a 1992 report issued by several human rights organizations. 3 Press reports have also alleged that school graduates have included several Peruvian military officers linked to the July 1992 killings of nine students and a professor from La Cantuta University, and included several Honduran officers linked to a clandestine military force known as Battalion 316 responsible for disappearances in the early 1980s. 4 Critics of the School maintain that soldiers who are chosen to attend are not properly screened, with the result that some students and instructors have attended the School after being implicated in human rights violations.
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2 The U.N. Truth Commission Report on El Salvador and the U.S. Army School of the Americas. Washington Office on Latin America. August 27, 1993.
Seems to me that if we can cut the head of the snake off with some special ops teams that it would be better and cheaper than using the army to try and do the same thing. Whats upsetting is how easily our politicians are leaking these secrets.
That's why our allies withhold information from us. They know we'll blab it to the Washington Compost.
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