May 05 2008
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“ Cockburn also describes authorized tactics in the new finding – signed six weeks ago – as “up to and including the assassination of targeted officials.” The “war on terrorism” now consists of a large-scale campaign to subsidize, organize, and empower favored terrorist groups – the “good” terrorists of the MEK, “former” terrorists of the “Awakening” in Iraq, and a motley assortment of separatists and fanatics whose violent methods are but a reflection of their intrinsic nihilism.