World-News: State-Sponsored Assassinations Are Back in Open Style

State-Sponsored Assassinations Are Back in Open Style

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/state-sponsored-assassinations.html

'Mysteries of Policy': Officially Sanctioned Murder
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w144.html

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Death squads in Afghanistan

CounterPunch
by Francis Shor

04/27/10

It should no longer be a matter of dispute that US Special Forces in Afghanistan are responsible for an increasing number of murders, whether part of targeted extra-judicial killings or the result of bad intelligence. From the attack on a bridal shower in Gardez on February 12, 2010 that killed numerous civilians, including two pregnant women, to the growing list of executions of insurgents in the Kandahar area, Special Forces have become the US military version of death squads...

http://counterpunch.org/shor04272010.html

The 9/14 presidency

Reason
by Eli Lake

Unlike other wars in American history, a global war on a terrorist network has no geographic boundaries and no clear end point. FDR interned Japanese Americans until the end of World War II, an extraordinary assault on civil liberties. But at least there was no doubt what the end of that conflict would look like. ‘The danger of a war that takes place everywhere and lasts forever is that it gives the president almost limitless authority to detain or even kill U.S. citizens and civilians anywhere in the world,’ says Ben Wizner, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. On February 3, Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, confirmed that power in congressional testimony, telling lawmakers that the administration had the right to kill American citizens who joined Al Qaeda without court involvement or consultation with Congress. The only legal authority required, Blair said, was ’special permission,’ which amounts to presidential approval on a case-by-case basis... (for publication 06/10)

http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/12/the-914-presidency

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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ACLU Letter Urges President Obama to Reject Targeted Killings Outside Conflict Zones
http://act.commondreams.org/go/405?akid=44.124981.Ed59L2&t=38

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A US-Sponsored Terror Network: Death Squads in Afghanistan

By Francis Shor

From the attack on a bridal shower in Gardez on February 12, 2010 that killed numerous civilians, including two pregnant women, to the growing list of executions of insurgents in the Kandahar area, Special Forces have become the US military version of death squads.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25346.htm

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The Return of the Death Squads
http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/e74463acf057b942?hl=en

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Obama jokes about Predator Drones which kill innocent people

rudkla - 19. Apr, 06:12

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