Posted on 05/29/2012 3:37:17 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama personally oversees Al-Qaeda 'kill list': report AFPAFP – 56 mins ago
US President Barack Obama has personally overseen a top-secret process for determining which Al-Qaeda suspects should be placed on a "kill list," the New York Times reported Tuesday.
The Times, citing dozens of top officials and former advisers, said the administration had developed what it termed the "kill list" as part of a stepped-up drone war against Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Pakistan and Yemen.
"He is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go," it quoted National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon as saying.
"His view is that he's responsible for the position of the United States in the world... He's determined to keep the tether pretty short."
The Times described the top-secret process, which begins with some 100 counter-terrorism officials sifting through biographies and "nominating" suspects in Yemen and Somalia to be added to the kill list during a secure video conference run by the Pentagon.
The CIA carries out a separate process for suspects in Pakistan, it said.
The nominations then go to Obama, who signs off on every strike in Yemen and Somalia and also on especially complex and risky strikes in Pakistan -- about a third of the total, the Times said.
Obama personally approves the killing of top suspects, such as Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaqi -- a US citizen -- who was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen last year.
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“... and Chuck Norris wears Obama pajamas...”
What a HOOT!
That didn’t even need a /Sarcasm tag!
I have heard that he personally goes on the missions and does the work himself.
The campaign ads are being readied.
I have heard that he personally goes on the missions and does the work himself.
The campaign ads are being readied.
Just imagine the explosions if it were say...Bush who had this level of involvement in operational detail. Zero has been able to ramp-up the drone war because he knew he'd get a pass on the left and in the MSM. No Republican would. The Slimes and the Compost would be in daily hysterics and Seymour Hersh would be on the Today Show plugging his new book about how Bush has unleashed robot massacres from the skies on wedding parties and grade schools.
LMFAO! It's amazing how relevant that movie becomes every single day.
Mike Judge is a social commentary genius.
We’re supposed to believe that a guy who had to be dragged off the golf course to be in the war room when Bin Laden was killed knows one goatherd from another. This is like when Biden said Obama “spent months planning” the Bin Laden killing.
His #1 priority from the moment he wakes up to the moment he puts his kids to bed and his head on his soft pi’wwoh.
Right up there with his #1 priorities of jobs and overhauling healthcare and whatever other issue is #1 with the audience he is speaking to that day.
Somehow, the phrase, “it takes an air raid on a village” seems to describe zerobama’s actions here...
Somehow, the phrase, “it takes an air raid on a village” seems to describe zerobama’s actions here...
why not just pick them all?
‘it takes an air raid on a village to raze a child ... of allah’
I wonder how many other “kill lists” Obama “personally oversees”.
Breitbart?
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