- The US government is considering plans to send elite
military units on missions to assassinate al-Qaida leaders in countries
around the world, without necessarily informing the governments involved,
it was reported yesterday.
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- The Pentagon is discussing proposals which could see
special operations units dispatched to capture or kill terrorists wherever
they are be lieved to be hiding, despite a long-standing presidential order
forbidding US personnel from carrying out assassinations abroad, the New
York Times reported.
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- Senior army advisers believe they could justify the practice
on the grounds that it would constitute "preparation of the battlefield"
in a war against terrorism that has no boundaries, because the September
11 terrorist attacks in effect initiated a worldwide state of armed conflict,
the newspaper said.
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- "We're at war with al-Qaida. If we find an enemy
combatant, then we should be able to use military force to take military
action against them," a senior adviser to the defence secretary, Donald
Rumsfeld, was quoted as saying.
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- The plan was said to be caus ing concerns in other parts
of the US government because it might blur the line between army activity
and missions usually handled, under strict legal guidelines, by the Central
Intelligence Agency.
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- The president and Congress monitor CIA activities to
ensure compliance with a presidential executive order first signed by President
Gerald Ford, but regularly renewed since, forbidding government-sponsored
assassinations.
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- The order followed revelations of CIA plans to murder
foreign leaders including Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo.
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- But Mr Rumsfeld is said to be frustrated by the CIA's
activities in Afghanistan, especially when the activities of special forces
working with local war lords were slowed down because the Afghans were
still waiting for cash payments they were promised for cooperating against
the Taliban.
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- The CIA's director, George Tenet, was understood not
to oppose the proposals Mr Rumsfeld is considering, and discussions were
under way to negotiate a new relationship between the agency and the army,
an official said.
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- The soldiers who would be used in any such plan are the
army's secretive Delta Force and the navy's Seal unit.
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- "The people in these units are available 24 hours
a day, seven days a week, anywhere around the world. They are very highly
trained, with specialised skills for dealing with close-quarters combat
and unique situations posed by weapons of mass destruction," a military
officer said.
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- A senior official in the Bush administration told the
New York Times that the US had to adapt its methods to match al-Qaida's
for speed and stealth.
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- "If we find a high-value target somewhere, anywhere
in the world, and if we have the forces to get there and get to them, we
should get there and get to them," the official said.
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- "Right now, there are 18 food chains, 20 levels
of paperwork and 22 hoops we have to jump through before we can take action.
Our enemy moves faster than that."
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- Shortly after last September's attacks, Dick Cheney,
the vice-president, indicated that the administration might review the
ban on assassinations, because "to be able to penetrate organisations
you need to have on the payroll some very unsavoury characters... It is
a mean, nasty, dangerous, dirty business out there, and we have to operate
in that arena."
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- Asked directly if there was a law which would outlaw
assassinating Osama bin Laden, he said he did not think so, "but I'd
have to check with the lawyers on that".
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- Presidents since Mr Ford have often been accused of sidestepping
the executive order by launching targeted military attacks primarily to
kill leaders, such as the 1986 attack on Libya authorised by Ronald Reagan,
of which he later commented that he would not have shed tears if it had
happened to kill the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy.
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,773574,00.html
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- The Summary Execution Issue
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- From Robert Anderson
top_view@planetmail.com
Top View News
8-15-2
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- On Monday morning (August 12) I found a Reuters story
on ABC News online news-wire, which stated that the White House had quietly
announced summary executions of certain persons designated as "terrorists"
by Bush or other high-ranking Bush Cartel members HAD BEEN given the OK.
So: ONLY the SAY-SO of Bush gang, in other words, is sufficient to incur
the MURDER of whomever is so designated, by OFFICIAL US government policy.
No evidence whatsoever need ever be presented to ANYONE, that the person
so designated IS in fact a "terrorist" at all. This Reuters article
indicated that the directive applied both abroad AND at home in the U.S.
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- We forwarded the article to our recipient list with the
url, but soon began receiving emails saying the link was not working. And
true enough, the story WAS gone, and could not be found at the Reuters
site either.
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- We had several people we know (some in the journalism
business) contact White House information sources, and we received to clear
replies to the effect that the article must have been either in error or
a hoax.
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- THEN, on Tuesday evening associate Mark Jahnsky found
an item on the Washington Post website which reported that a CIA spokesperson
said the agency HAD been given the "green light" (the Post's
words) to carry out summary executions or assassinations of certain persons
whom the Bush Mob claimed were "terrorists."
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- Although THIS article gave no indication that the new
directive applied WITHIN the United States as the CIA is specifically FORBIDDEN
from conducting operations within the US, apparently by the time the Post
article was published, either the Presidential directive had been amended
or else the full extent of its intended scope had been COVERED UP.
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- Nevertheless, and regardless: ONLY the SAY-SO of Bush-Mobsters
is sufficient to incur the MURDER of whomever is so designated, by OFFICIAL
US government policy! No evidence whatsoever need ever be presented to
ANYONE, that the person so designated IS in fact a "terrorist"
at all!
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- And then a funny thing happened. The Washington Post
article ALSO disappeared from the face of the Earth. Gone -- zip -- nada.
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- Nobody know nuttin'.
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- THEN, by Wednesday evening, a series of communications
to TOP_VIEW on the subject from Jeff Rense were massively interfered with,
our computer was repeatedly hacked into via our Internet hookup resulting
in several crashes, and the Reuters article --which Rense had posted and
then removed when it couldn't be confirmed -- mysteriously reappeared at
Rense.com attached to an unrelated link, and then disappeared again forever.
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- Anyway, by Wednesday evening Jeff Rense had discovered
an article by The London Guardian, which stated that the Bush Mob was about
to give the green light to assassinations or summary executions of certain
persons designated as terrorists by top Bush Cartel members!
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- The Guardian article, however, like the Washington Post
article, gave no specific indication that the now-"PLANNED" policy
directive would also pertain domestically.
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- But nevertheless and regardless, ONLY the SAY-SO of the
Bush Cartel is sufficient to incur the MURDER of whomever is so designated,
by OFFICIAL US government policy. No evidence whatsoever need ever be presented
to ANYONE, that the person so designated IS in fact a "terrorist."
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- So: what IS the real story about the approval of summary
executions for certain persons whom Bush and his gang CLAIM are "terrorists?"
Exactly what is the scope of this HORRIFIC, newly-implemented or soon-to-be-implemented
official US "policy?" Apparently, the truth of the directive's
scope is being COVERED UP.
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- However, no matter whether this deranged, sickening,
brutish and MASSIVELY illegal/unconstitutional/unconscionable "policy"
is to be applied only outside the United States or whether the United States
and its people are to be INCLUDED, the "policy" itself is an
absolute and totally intolerable outrage to the civilized world and a profound
violation of international AND national law in the highest degree.
- The mightily perverted, grotesque G. Dubya Shrubya Bush
and his band,
- who've usurped control of this nation and are turning
it into a
- CommuNazi 4th Reich totalitarian NIGHTMARE, are a MASSIVE
menace and
- threat to the entire planet.
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- The nations, the PEOPLES of the world MUST STAND TOGETHER
and shut the
- Bush-Mob DOWN.
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