CIA and US military planned programme to assassinate al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries, former US intelligence officials say | World news | guardian.co.uk
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/cheney-cia-al-qaida-assassinations
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, ordered a highly classified CIA operation hidden from Congress because it pushed the limits of legality by planning to assassinate of al-Qaida operatives in friendly countries without the knowledge of their governments, according to former intelligence officials.
Former counter-terrorism officials who retain close links to the intelligence community say that the hidden operation involved plans by the CIA and the military to launch operations, similar to those by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, to hunt down and kill al-Qaida activists abroad without informing the governments concerned, even though some were regarded as friendly if unreliable.
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