Category: 2001

Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy

James Fetzer"Afghan War Diaries", 2001, Bush, death squads, Fetzer, Jerome Starkey, license to kill, Petraeus, Taliban, targeted assassination, Unconventional Warfare, war on terror, Wikileaks

Stephen Lendman6 August 2010 The WikiLeaks “Afghan War Diaries” provided documented evidence of America’s out-of-control lawlessness, including Special Forces death squads (Task Force 373) extrajudicially murdering or capturing suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures, many hundreds or perhaps thousands on a so-called Jpel (joint prioritized effects) list, also willfully killing civilian men, women and children, the London Times Kabul-based Jerome Starkey reporting earlier on these crimes, suppressed in US media accounts, presenting an embedded view of the war, omitting the targeting of Americans until then Director of National Intelligence Dennis C.…