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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: HG who wrote (6537)10/21/2001 5:08:56 AM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Eliminate Bin Laden, CIA told

[And now for something completely different...]

President Bush has authorised the CIA to use lethal force to eliminate Osama Bin Laden and key members of his al-Qaeda organisation, the Washington Post has revealed.
The president has given the agency the green light to do "whatever is necessary" in operations against al-Qaeda, a US official told the paper.

"The gloves are off" -- US official

The CIA has been handed an extra $1bn to fund covert operations and received an unprecedented order to work more closely with elite commando units.

The order, signed by President Bush last month but disclosed now for the first time, was described as the most sweeping since the founding of the agency in 1947.


news.bbc.co.uk
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