Petraeus Signed Order To Expand, Institutionalize Secret Military Action

New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.

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While the Bush administration had approved some clandestine military activities far from designated war zones, the new order is intended to make such efforts more systematic and long term, officials said.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[EstherHaman]

08:11 PM on 06/16/2010

So, our president B. Obama extends a friendly hand and then hides a dagger behind his back in the other hand, the old "switcherew". How smart, But he already said that we accept the Islamic republic of Iran and that we will not try to over through its government, blah blah blah. So, his worlds don't mean anything after all!! So, that proves it that the Iranians were smart enough to seee through him like a cheap cloth.

[Jay Mack]

10:07 AM on 05/26/2010

another classified document published by the patriots over at the NYT

[popart]

03:52 AM on 05/26/2010

didn't we used to be the good guys...instead we continue to look more and more like the enemy....doing bad things for "good" reasons....maybe.... maybe not....it looks more like just some sick game playing by the spooks.

[atomic]

03:37 AM on 05/26/2010

Betryus has been having meetings with Dick Cheney .. supposedly about Betrayus running for prez in 2012. This smells really bad to me. Must expose treason.

[Kerissa Mitchell]

09:35 AM on 05/26/2010

excuse me? Freedom from Oppressive 3rd World Socialist-Fascist "Left Wing" regimes comes at at a cost! Should we just allow these 3rd World dictators to enslave the people? or shall we liberate or "will be put chains of The Nanny State" around our own neck? And allow the Multi-Nationalist Elites to enslave us all in their "Imperalistic" "One World" "Socialist Dream?...they want these groups to rise up and division! it makes it that much easier for them to be controlled

[DrJykell]

02:56 AM on 05/26/2010

What about support for terrorist groups?
Us the Military training future American terror groups? I'm sure some Americans have no problem with that,,, but what they don't understand is,,, this could be done by any corporation who has the funds to support it if the military is just as captured by corporate power as our govt obviously is.........

Tehran claims Jundullah is supported by the U.S., Great Britain and Israel, and retired CIA Middle East operations officer Robert Baer has fingered Jundullah as one of the “good terrorist” groups benefiting from American help.
I believe it to be no coincidence that the Oct. 18 attack – the bloodiest in Iran since the 1980-88 war with Iraq – came one day before nuclear talks were to resume at the IAEA in Vienna to follow up on the Oct. 1 breakthrough. The killings were sure to raise Iran’s suspicions about U.S. sincerity.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/051910a.html

[LeeCalif]

12:08 AM on 05/26/2010

This is unacceptable and why Panetta should stay at the CIA.

[Usama]

11:43 PM on 05/25/2010

So every American military personnel is a potential spy. that'll improve relations that people will except the worst of all Americans.

[aproposofnothing]

11:38 PM on 05/25/2010

Betraeus!

too soon?

[Beardly]

09:14 PM on 05/25/2010

This is like Carter redux, where a government does terrible things around the world under the cover of a huge grin. I am sure whatever they are doing is squeaky clean and will never be used to destabilize countries by allying with some very horrible people *cough Osama bin Laden cough*.

[tuff guy]

09:05 PM on 05/25/2010

this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy (not).

[zakon]

08:54 PM on 05/25/2010

CAIRO (Puppet State Capital) — American Anwar al-Awlaki has been singled out as the new “enemy” by Empire officials. With this manufactured precedent, the Empire can now accident or suic*de “enemies of the state” when they vacation, despite their American citizenship.

Al-Awlaki is in the C.I.A. produced 45-minute video to help the Empire spend excessive tax dollars on a war/surveillance machine. Intentionally killing a million Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere also helps to cultivate a real enemy that can be very profitable to hold at bay.

The Empire’s subjects are to be duped, Al-Awlaki said in private to his C.I.A. handlers, because "the American people, in general, need to be scared and not question the Empire’s financing of lucrative wars on their dimes." He went on to congratulate his C.I.A. handlers for their daring work that claimed 3000 subjects so that the Empire could get Iraq.

According to unnamed official Empire sources, it’s very normal for C.I.A. assets, such as Al-Awlaki and Ft. Hood terr0rist Hassan, to email each other with the full knowledge of the Pentagon and FBI. The CIA/FBI/Pentagon are all on the Empire’s team.

Like Osama Bin Laden (who is retired on the Bin Laden ranch), Al-Awlaki is a reliable C.I.A. asset from the elite of a puppet state: Al Qeada’s #2 Al-Zawahiri (Egypt), Underwear B0mber (Nigeria), and Times Square Terr0rist (Pakistan).

[jabidi]

05:45 PM on 05/25/2010

"Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several thousands miles away. They are right here in front of us"

- Mike Prysner (Iraq War Veteran)

[Robert Cantor]

07:46 PM on 05/25/2010

ty for that

[Carl Caroli]

04:55 PM on 05/25/2010

He's building his own little elite force. Beware!

[TAIsabel]

04:53 PM on 05/25/2010

Although, in principle, I prefer covert intelligence gathering over outright drone attacks and military action that results not only in civilian casualties but, the resulting, and justified, resentment which enables further recruitment of militants, two things concern me (beyond the obvious):
1. I understand targeting Al Quaeda but, am very concerned that General Petraeus is jumpimg on the "Iran war" bandwagon. This is a very dangerous and precarious step which can ultimately lead us into that war against Iran we have been hearing rumblings about for the last year.

2. The use of "civilian" agents as undercover intelligence gatherers is precisely the reason why Iran has incarcerated the "so-called hitchhikers". No one is safe to go anywhere near any of these countries be it for humanitarian, educational, recreational, journalistic endeavors or any other reason under this present plan. And, quite frankly, you cannot blame Iran for being suspicious of hitchhikers, as an example. Let's not forget that Kermit Roosevelt was instrumental in bringing the Shah of Iran to power in 1953, thus paving the way for the Khomeni Revolution of 1979.

If we had foreign "civilians" gathering intelligence here in the US, they would be held as spies and/or enemy combatants.

Good luck getting those hitchhikers back home.

[hardcorelib]

04:45 PM on 05/25/2010

He needs to be arrested and tried for treason.