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Contractors were hired as part of a secret program to assassinate top Al Qaeda operatives, officials said.
Contractors were hired as part of a secret program to assassinate top Al Qaeda operatives, officials said.
Dick Cheney had a secret C.I.A. club that planned to assassinate suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists abroad. While it never came to fruition (one source told the Times it “sounds great in the movies, but when you try to do it, it’s not that easy”), people are beginning to ponder the legal implications of such a program, which itself was assassinated by C.I.A. director Leon E. Panetta just last month. Others are speculating that this is just the tip of an iceberg… Read More ›