Assassinations in Allied Countries?

http://washingtonindependent.com/50683/assassinations-in-allied-countries#more-50683

Assassinations in Allied Countries?
By Spencer Ackerman 7/13/09 3:15 PM


The Guardian, fleshing out Siobhan Gorman’s Wall Street Journal piece today on the secret CIA “significant actions” that Director Leon Panetta cancelled last month, reports that the program was geared to assassinate members of al-Qaeda in friendly countries. Here’s what one former intel official told the Guardian’s Chris McGreal:



My quest to elaborate on this took a revealing turn when I asked a currently-serving intelligence official whether the Guardian had it right. “This effort has been briefed to the Congress,” the official replied. “They know what this was and what it wasn’t.” So I asked a congressional staffer, who answered, “Like Congress can talk about it.” This is what it’s like reporting this story, folks.

I hate to say it...beats the hell out of invading a couple countries

or even worse, could it have been used to erase some 'troublesome' people under the guise of slapping an AQ label on them?

carte blanche to execute anyone they wanted.

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in Italy saying that Iraq was interested in buying Uranium. We know that many south and central american leaders have had bad luck in small planes.

If you read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, you know the connection between pentagon, world bank, defense department, corporate america, and the white house.