Okay...this is why Sen. Obama can't get into office soon enough...I'd say it was unbelievable if it weren't all to believable...for those of you of a certain age does this remind anyone of Nixon and Cambodia?
Secret attacks on al-Qaeda reportedU.S. special-operations forces have raided various countries nearly a dozen times since '04.
By The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The U.S. 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 U.S. officials.
These military raids, typically carried out by special-operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 at the direction of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack al-Qaeda 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 CIA's Counterterrorist Center at the agency's headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.
Some of the military missions have been conducted in close coordination with the CIA, according to senior U.S. officials, who said that in others, like the special-operations raid in Syria on Oct. 26 of this year, the military commandos acted in support of CIA-directed operations, senior U.S. officials said.
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