Friday 24 July 2009

" ...the CIA had trained a team of Lebanese agents to assassinate people involved in the 1983 bombings ..."

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Ignatius in the WaPo, here

".. To gather that intelligence, the CIA needed teams of agents, drawn from foreign countries. A generation ago, former officials say, the CIA had recruited and trained a team of Lebanese agents to assassinate people involved in the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut. There was discussion within the CIA of reviving that capability, or using surrogates from other countries. ..."

Posted by G, Z, & or B at 3:23 AM

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