Sunday, August 01, 2010

We've Been There: Targeted Assassinations

America decides to go the route Israel did:-


Targeted Killing Is New U.S. Focus in Afghanistan



And the policy is explained:-

...what has turned out to work well is an approach American officials have talked much less about: counterterrorism, military-speak for the targeted killings of insurgents from Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Faced with that reality, and the pressure of a self-imposed deadline to begin withdrawing troops by July 2011, the Obama administration is starting to count more heavily on the strategy of hunting down insurgents. The shift could change the nature of the war and potentially, in the view of some officials, hasten a political settlement with the Taliban.



Maybe Bibi really has won over Obama?



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