Friday, September 2, 2011

The CIA`s New Mission: Hit Squads Targeting Al Qaeda Members



CIA Shifts Focus To Killing Targets -- Washington Post

Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have been laying out a secret new runway for CIA drones.

When the missiles start falling, it will mark another expansion of the paramilitary mission of the CIA.

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My Comment: How times have changed. 35 years ago U.S. Democrats were condemning such a policy .... now they support it .... albeit limiting their targeting for assassination to terror leaders instead of state leaders.

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