Buffalo News - U.S. covert teams at work Lethal agents hunting Saddam loyalists
By DANA PRIEST
Washington Post
3/29/2003
Associated Press
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said it is "certainly within the president's power" to order assassinations.
WASHINGTON - U.S. covert teams have been operating in urban areas in Iraq trying to kill members of President Saddam Hussein's inner circle, including Baath Party officials and Special Republican Guard commanders, according to U.S. and other knowledgeable officials.
The covert teams, from the CIA's paramilitary division and the military's special operations group, include snipers and demolition experts schooled in setting house and car bombs. They reportedly have killed more than a handful of individuals, according to one knowledgeable source. They have been in operation for at least a week.
The previously undisclosed operation suggests U.S. government efforts to destroy the government leadership are far more extensive than previously known, and have continued since the March 20 airstrike on a residential compound in the suburbs of Baghdad.
By DANA PRIEST
Washington Post
3/29/2003
Associated Press
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said it is "certainly within the president's power" to order assassinations.
WASHINGTON - U.S. covert teams have been operating in urban areas in Iraq trying to kill members of President Saddam Hussein's inner circle, including Baath Party officials and Special Republican Guard commanders, according to U.S. and other knowledgeable officials.
The covert teams, from the CIA's paramilitary division and the military's special operations group, include snipers and demolition experts schooled in setting house and car bombs. They reportedly have killed more than a handful of individuals, according to one knowledgeable source. They have been in operation for at least a week.
The previously undisclosed operation suggests U.S. government efforts to destroy the government leadership are far more extensive than previously known, and have continued since the March 20 airstrike on a residential compound in the suburbs of Baghdad.
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