Bush widens authority of CIA to kill terrorists

New York Times ^ | 15 December 2002

[Asmodeus]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bush administration has prepared a list of about two dozen terrorist leaders whom the CIA is authorized to kill if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officials said.

The previously undisclosed CIA list of targets includes Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and other principal figures from Al-Qaida and affiliated terrorist groups, the officials said.

[Semper Paratus]

CIA is authorized to kill if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized,

That works for me!

[doug from upland]

He's making a list......and checking it twice.......our president knows they are not nice..........CIA will mow these guys down.

[teletech]

Saddam you better find a hole and take Arafat with you.

[Diogenesis]

For Baghdad, Iraq, a new national bird - the Predator.

[Fiddlstix]

That works for me!

Ditto

[The Turbanator]

Bush widens authority of CIA to kill terrorists

Jeez, what took him so long.

[US_MilitaryRules]

FIRE AWAY!

[Michael Barnes]

Merry Christmas CIA...

[Travis McGee]

Great!

[Yehuda]

BTTT

[Wait4Truth]

And the RATS better not start whining about this because they have been out there saying the President is doing anything to stop terrorism. This President runs circles around the stupid jerks. He always gives them enough rope to hang themselves and then he pulls the noose real tight.

[2nd Amendment]

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the mosque
Not a mullah was stirring, not even Osama
The suicide bombs were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes some innocent would soon be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their bed,
While visions of C4 danced in their heads,
And Arafat in his kerchief, and Osama in his _rap,
had wasted their brains on a long desert nap . . .
When out on the sand there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my camel to see what was the matter . .

[Wait4Truth]

This is a pretty straight piece considering it's the NY Slimes, isn't it?

[sneakers]

And I say - Go GET'EM!

[Guillermo]

Read the article. It says he did it last year after 9-11.

Not everything they do makes it into the morning paper by the next day.

[sablefish]

I'm a newbie.. I'm trying to find out how the site works.. My question is: When will this kill by decree be directed at civilians who dissagree with Bush's policies? When will the "war on terrorism" be directed at us if we don't like the government?

[prognostigaator]

The moderator was out for the day.....

[Larry Lucido]

Jeez, what took him so long.

What gives you the idea that he "took so long"? The fact that the NYT is just now reporting that "written" authority exists? I'll bet the policy has been in place a while now.

[pointsal]

GOSH, SEEMS REASONABLE TO ME.

[Travis McGee]

We assassinated Admiral Yamamoto in WW2. We also assassinated Reichsmarshal Heydrich. That's what you do in a war.

We will also assassinate OBL and other Al Queda terrorists in this war.

Are you an Al Queda terrorist? Don't worry then.

[Bars4Bill]

kill if capture is impractical

Great slogan for a second term. Sure beats that "compassionate conservative" crap.

[jwalsh07]

Excellent! We're back to Wanted Dead or Alive(wink,wink)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I love it! Get 'em in the crosshairs and blast away, boys!!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Now there's a mission statement that I'll vote for!

[Wait4Truth]

LOL! Thank you for the inside info!

[wharfrat]

Incinerate everyone you find and don't bother to consult with a spineless,gutless, liberal, Weenie; GWB has signed their dispatch order! Turn all of them into RoadKill that a buzzard would turn away from!

[DWSUWF]

With regard to unambiguously guilty, non-citizen terrorists...

Kill them, freeze their corpses and ship them to dog food manufacturers.

They hate dogs so much... Have no taste for them... Let the dogs decide for themselves whether or not to return the favor.

Market it as a 'special blend', at a premium price...

I'd buy a bag just to have the story to tell.

[sneakers]

First of all - welcome newbie.

What would you have us do - sit back and let them hit us again just like they did several times during the Clinton years? It is because our intelligence agencies were greatly weakened during the clinton years that 9-11 happened in the first place. We were hit - what - four times before 9-11 and clinton did NOTHING. Our government is there, in part, to protect the American people and President Bush is seeing that it is done.

Again, welcome!

[Dog Gone]

Still, some national security lawyers said the practice of drawing up lists of people who are subject to lethal force might blur the lines drawn by the government's ban on assassinations. That prohibition was first ordered by President Gerald Ford, and in the view of some lawyers, it applies not only to foreign leaders but also to civilians.

It's time to rescind that stupid order.

[Pushi]

That's what we have the Declaration of Independence for:

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security... That is why the Second Amendment is absolutely essential.

[hoosierskypilot]

"When will the "war on terrorism" be directed at us if we don't like the government.."

When you elect some slime like Al Gore or varicose veined Hillary to office.

[Dog Gone]

My question is: When will this kill by decree be directed at civilians who dissagree with Bush's policies?

He promised to kill only those who ask dumb questions.

[hoosierskypilot]

"We will also assassinate OBL ...."

Hate to break the news, but OBL is nothing but a patch of green mold, visited only by an occasional maggot. How do I know? Because OBL's ego is so big, that he could not resist boasting, on video, of his survival.

[hoosierskypilot]

And I would like to donate the pig skins to bury them it. Want to contribute?

[sneakers]

Much better answer than mine, Pushi! The words of the Declaration of Independence put the power squarely in the hands of the people. The power is in the vote - and in our right to protect ourselves from a corrupt government.

[Travis McGee]

I tend to agree, I was just going for the standard example.

[rwfromkansas]

It is now being revealed; I remember an article a long time on FR about something like this. I doubt he just recently did this.

[Spunky]

I'm a newbie

Profile page says; sablefish signed up 2001-08-13.

Thats over a year ago, you must be a sloooow learner.

Don't do anything stupid and you should be alright.

[barker]

That works for me!

Same here.

[sheik yerbouty]

He knows who's been naughty and whose been nice.(the ones at room temperature)

[Kay Soze]

In answer to your question: Never.

You'll be audited by the IRS first (opps! that was the previous administration) or wacked by the FBI ( opps! also the previous WACO administration).

[dighton]

Hate to break the news, but OBL is nothing but a patch of green mold, visited only by an occasional maggot.

Also known as a cave painting by Jackson Pollock.

;-)

[Spunky]

Hate to break the news, but OBL is nothing but a patch of green mold, visited only by an occasional maggot.

How right you are.

POW!

OSAMA has BIN LADEN out SPLAT!!!!

[Caesar Soze]

"Newbie" signed up 2001-08-13, but hasn't posted anything. Were I feeling paranoid, I might finger someone as a possible sleeper account established by our ideological opposites.

To answer your question, the war on terrorism has already been directed against civilians who disagree with the administration's policies. Wellstone was assassinated by a UAV before the elections, the FBI has reconstituted COINTELPRO in an effort to disrupt minority PACs, and CIA has been secretly feeding Al Gore trace amounts of LSD for the past year or so. Authority to do all this is codified in a classified annex to the USAPATRIOT act declaring Bush Summus Imperator Dictatorque.

[DAnconia55]

My question is: When will this kill by decree be directed at civilians who dissagree with Bush's policies? When will the "war on terrorism" be directed at us if we don't like the government?

Good question.

Although, I do agree with the CIA assassinating foreign leaders. Cheap, effective and stop wars quickly :)

[river rat]

Assassinate is such an ugly word ---- with it's origin in Arabic.

Main Entry: as·sas·sin
Pronunciation: &-'sa-s&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Medieval Latin assassinus, from Arabic
hashshAshIn, plural of hashshAsh one who smokes or chews hashish, from hashIsh hashish
Date: circa 1520
1 capitalized : one of a secret order of Muslims that at the time of the Crusades terrorized Christians and other enemies by secret murder committed under the influence of hashish

It appears that our adversary, can kill only when high on Hash, or freaked out by his voodoo murderous religion that promises him a piece of female ass in the afterlife... Goats must be compliant - but boring....

We have the advantage here -- we have no shortage of men that can kill in sober, deliberate and cold blooded concentration......

In the old days, some folks simply referred to the killing of a designated "troublesome" individual - as a whineless whack...
Meaning there would be no written order, no investigation, no report and no complaints lodged..

Semper Fi

[Caesar Soze]

It appears that our adversary, can kill only when high on Hash, or freaked out by his voodoo murderous religion that promises him a piece of female ass in the afterlife...

The name "hashiyya" was probably given to the Nizari Ismailis by the Sunnis purely as a derogatory active measure. IIRC, the Nizaris are presently one of the most progressive sects of Islam. Their leader, the Aga Khan, lent his house in Geneva to Ronald Reagan for the summit with Gorbachev. In exchange, he asked only that Reagan feed his son's fish.

We have the advantage here -- we have no shortage of men that can kill in sober, deliberate and cold blooded concentration.

They have a great deal of sober, deliberate, and cold-blooded killers, too. Our advantage lies elsewhere.

[sablefish]

"They have a great deal of sober, deliberate, and cold-blooded killers, too. Our advantage"..is that we have high tech wepons... And spend as much on defense as the next 9 biggest military nations combined...Defence, what a joke, It's offence.

[jokemoke]

I second that!