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The Coming Wars (by Seymour M. Hersch)
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The New Yorker
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/050124fa_fact
This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone, the former high-level intelligence official told me. Next, were going to have the Iranian campaign." The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia. The Pentagon doesnt feel obligated to report any of this to Congress, the former high-level intelligence official said. They dont even call it covert ops -- its too close to the C.I.A. phrase. In their view, its black reconnaissance. Theyre not even going to tell the cincs -- the regional American military commanders-in-chief.
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