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The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing Afghans

Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com “Find, fix, finish, and follow-up” is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been given a mandate to pursue alleged members of the Taliban or al-Qaeda wherever they may be found. Some call these “manhunting” operations and the units assigned to them “capture/kill” teams. [...]
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JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs’

Shhhhhh! JSOC is Hiring Interrogators and Covert Operatives for ‘Special Access Programs’ Jeremy Scahill/Nation The US military’s most elite counter-terrorism force, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), prides itself on the secrecy of its operations. JSOC runs classified, compartmentalized task forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere around the world. It [...]
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Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World

Fred Branfman, AlterNet “[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” — “The Runaway General,” Rolling Stone, 6/22/10 The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the heart of America’s military strategy [...]
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‘Dozens’ of US Citizens on Assassination List, White House Adviser Hints

Muriel Kane, Raw Story When it was confirmed last winter by then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the Obama administration had authorized the assassination of American citizens working with terrorist groups overseas, it appeared that no more than three Americans were being targeted in this manner.
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U.S. Approval to Kill a Cleric Causes Unease

SCOTT SHANE/NYT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.
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