Monday, December 22, 2003
The major media outlets have ignored the CIA's on-going strategy of mass assassinations as one of the main weapons in Bush's burgeoning global war of terror. This is why it came as something of a shock to highbrows and media elites when Seymour Hersh, in a recent article for The New Yorker, revealed the existence of what he wrongfully referred to as "a new Special Forces operation" that is intended to assassinate the people comprising "the broad middle of the Ba'athist underground."
This is a half-truth at best. To begin with, this is a CIA assassination program, not a Special Forces program; and while Hersh is correct when he says the targets are members of the outlawed Ba'ath Party, he tactfully skirts the fact that this assassination program is illegal because it targets civilians not soldiers. . .
Preemptive Manhunting is the new name for assassination and, according to Hersh (quoting one of his usual anonymous sources), "We've got to scare the Iraqis into submission."
 This is a textbook description of "selective terrorism" as the ultimate form of psychological warfare, and Hersh is correct in describing Preemptive Manhunting as the rebirth of the CIA's Phoenix Program in South Vietnam.
For those who are unaware of it, a typical Phoenix Program operation occurred in February 1968, when former Senator Bob Kerrey (now added to the 9/11 Investigation team) led a seven-member Navy SEAL team into Thanh Phong village and murdered more than a dozen women and children--a war crime for which Kerry received a Bronze Star. That's right--Kerrey lied when he got back to camp and reported that he and his boys had killed 21 Viet Cong guerrillas. We can expect a lot of this in Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other place Bush sends the CIA. . .
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