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Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda
By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: November 9, 2008
WASHINGTON — 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.
Hussein Malla/Associated Press
Mourners shouted anti-American slogans on Oct. 27 in Syria at the funeral of someone killed in a cross-border United States raid.
The New York Times
A 2004 order permits attacks on terrorists outside war zones.
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.
In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants’ compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted Predator aircraft — in real time in the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorist Center at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.
Go back to the Great Depression of 1929 and follow it through to FDR and his New Deal. The same exact scenario is playing out right now! The Japanese came to the US in 1941 to get the US to recognize their conquest in the east and allow them the land that they conquered. The US refused. That was when Pearl Harbor took place on 7 Dec 41. And that took us out of the Depression. Now, we're refusing to let Iran have their nuclear power. When Obama takes office, that removes the obstacle that is in the way of Iran to do something if Obama drops any protection we have. And we know Obama wants to sit down and chat with the leaders of countries like Iran, North Korea, etc.