[IP] Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:56:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Nine Reasons
Nine reasons why we never sent our Special Operations Forces after al Qaeda
before 9/11. by Richard H. Shultz Jr.
SINCE 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has repeatedly declared
that the United States is in a new kind of war, one requiring new military
forces to hunt down and capture or kill terrorists. In fact, for some
years, the Department of Defense has gone to the trouble of selecting and
training an array of Special Operations Forces, whose forte is precisely
this. One president after another has invested resources to hone lethal
"special mission units" for offensive--that is,
preemptive--counterterrorism strikes, with the result that these units are
the best of their kind in the world. While their activities are highly
classified, two of them--the Army's Delta Force and the Navy's SEAL Team
6--have become the stuff of novels and movies.
Read the rest of the article here:
<http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0419ninereasons.html>http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/0419ninereasons.html
Richard H. Shultz Jr. is director of international security studies at the
Fletcher School, Tufts University, and director of research at the
Consortium for the Study of Intelligence in Washington, D.C.
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