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2010-03-15 Afghanistan

Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants

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Posted by tipper 2010-03-15 00:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants

Nice work Mr. Furlong. I hope you documented lessons learned in order that your excellent work can be institutionalized. Congratulations on your new job at Lackland.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-15 03:06|| 2010-03-15 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 the secret use of private contractors may be seen as an attempt to get around the Pakistani governments prohibition of American military personnels operating in the country
Also cuts the ISI out of the loop. No wonder it was successful.

Posted by Spot 2010-03-15 08:03|| 2010-03-15 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't even have to look to know it was the NYT that printed this.

Posted by lotp 2010-03-15 08:16|| 2010-03-15 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Privite enterprize rules!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-15 10:03|| 2010-03-15 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm still trying to get to the main issue, which is, how the NYT thinks what the contractors are doing is wrong? Sources that produce the identification of genuine enemy combatants, regardless of status,are acceptable. Am I missing some arcane s*cialist reasoning here?
Killing the enemy is the game isn't it?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-03-15 17:47|| 2010-03-15 17:47|| Front Page Top

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