U.S. Military Working to 'Kill or Capture' 50 Taliban Drug Lords
ABC News
08/10/09
In a dramatic change of policy ordered by the Obama administration, the U.S. military has been given approval to ‘kill or capture’ 50 Taliban-connected drug lords whose names are on a classified ‘kill list’ being circulated to commanders, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by ABCNews.com. Military officials expressed anger today that the ‘classified program’ had been revealed in the Senate report...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8295405&page=1
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Afghan Drug Lords: Targeted Until Proven Innocent
By Stephen M. Walt
This is a formula to escalate the cycle of violence in Afghanistan, not to end it. For anyone who's been awake and watching the many failed strategies in the US war on drugs at home, it just looks stupid.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23252.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
08/10/09
In a dramatic change of policy ordered by the Obama administration, the U.S. military has been given approval to ‘kill or capture’ 50 Taliban-connected drug lords whose names are on a classified ‘kill list’ being circulated to commanders, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by ABCNews.com. Military officials expressed anger today that the ‘classified program’ had been revealed in the Senate report...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8295405&page=1
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Afghan Drug Lords: Targeted Until Proven Innocent
By Stephen M. Walt
This is a formula to escalate the cycle of violence in Afghanistan, not to end it. For anyone who's been awake and watching the many failed strategies in the US war on drugs at home, it just looks stupid.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23252.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+on+drugs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
rudkla - 11. Aug, 09:42
