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MSNBC

03/14/10

Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed former C.I.A. and Special Forces operatives...

https://tinyurl.com/ykzk3sp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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US Special Forces 'Tried to Cover-up' Botched Khataba Raid in Afghanistan

By Jerome Starkey, Kabul

US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims' bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25136.htm



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