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White House Approves Expansion Of Drone Campaign In Yemen

The Washington Post | Greg Miller | Posted 04.26.2012

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The United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama tha...

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How U.S.' Top Killers Became Its Top (Unaccountable) Spies

wired.com | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Afghanistan War, U.S. Special Forces, Counterterrorism, Jsoc, Joint Special Operations Command, Osama Bin Laden Raid, Espionage, U.S. Military, World News

This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, the secretive, uber-elite military unit that killed Osam...

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Inside The Covert Group That Killed Bin Laden

National Journal | Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.13.2011

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Before the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound earlier this week, President Obama had experience monitoring a white-knuckles counterterrorism operation...

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Death of a Salesman

Richard Klass | Posted 07.04.2011

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Richard Klass

The main character in the play, Willy, never had the charisma or success that he craved while, in some perverse way, Osama did. But both were traveling salesmen living on pat successes and both were ultimately failures.

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Seymour Hersh: Military Being Run By 'Crusaders'

Posted 05.25.2011

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The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh alleged in a speech in Qatar that key branches of the U.S. military are being led by Christian fundamentalist "crusader...

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U.S. Doubles Anti-Taliban Special Forces In Afghanistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pentagon has increased its use of the military's most elite special operations teams in Afghanistan, more than doubling the number of the highly t...

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Yemen Attacks Involve U.S. Military

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed ...

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