Monday, November 10, 2008

Donald Rumsfeld’s 2004 Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries

NYTimes.com brings us another one of their Paper first -- Country last, reports’ and it starts off like this... The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials... These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States...
Read the full report at link below...
Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries

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