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 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:59 am Post subject: 5. Blackwater: The Secret US War in Pakistan |
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5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan
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At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives inside and outside Pakistan. The Blackwater operatives also gather intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus.
Captain John Kirby, the spokesperson for Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Nation, �We do not discuss current operations one way or the other, regardless of their nature.� Meanwhile a defense official specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone strikes or intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. �We don�t have any contracts to do that work for us. We don�t contract that kind of work out, period,� the official said. �There has not been, and are not now, contracts between JSOC and that organization for these types of services.� The Pentagon has stated bluntly, �There are no US military strike operations being conducted in Pakistan.� |
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