US President George W Bush has authorised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill about a dozen terrorist leaders named on a secret list prepared by the White House, US media has reported. Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are among those singled out as targets, the New York Times newspaper says, citing senior military and intelligence officials.
Really, this should have been done at least a year ago. Does anybody doubt that Binny has a hit list, with Bush and Cheney at the very top?
The report comes a month after the CIA killed six al-Qaeda suspects in a missile attack on a car in Yemen using a pilotless aircraft. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that killing was permitted "if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimised".
"Minimized" is a word that the terror enablers will quibble over — those who don't holler that the hit list makes us "just as bad as the terrorists"... |