Contractors tied to effort to track, kill militants
MSNBC
03/14/10
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives...
http://tinyurl.com/ykzk3sp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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US Special Forces 'Tried to Cover-up' Botched Khataba Raid in Afghanistan
By Jerome Starkey, Kabul
US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims' bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25136.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khataba
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+companies
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=suspected+militant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=night+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jerome+Starkey
03/14/10
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives...
http://tinyurl.com/ykzk3sp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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US Special Forces 'Tried to Cover-up' Botched Khataba Raid in Afghanistan
By Jerome Starkey, Kabul
US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims' bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25136.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khataba
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+companies
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=suspected+militant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=night+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jerome+Starkey
rudkla - 15. Mär, 08:54
