Are the Assassination Rings Still In Operation Inside Iraq?


Global Research, July 18, 2009
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 18, 2009


Editor's Note

We bring to the attention of our readers this article by Seymour Hersh published in December 2003, which outlines the assassination policy of the Bush administration directed against the military and civilian Iraqi elites.

This policy was not limited to the Baathist political and military leadership. It also consisted in the assassination of intellectuals, scientists and professionals. The ultimate objective is to destroy the Iraqi nation.

There is evidence, according to Hersh, that Israeli intelligence officers were involved in the training of their US counterparts as well as in the manhunts, with Israeli commandos operating inside Iraq.

This article sheds light on a particular feature of the Bush-Cheney assassination rings, which are now the object of debate in the US. The assassination rings are part of a broad foreign policy agenda.. Are they still in operation inside Iraq?

Michel Chossudovsky


Moving Targets
Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam?

by Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker - 2003-12-15


The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq. In interviews over the past month, American officials and former officials said that the main target was a hard-core group of Baathists who are believed to be behind much of the underground insurgency against the soldiers of the United States and its allies. A new Special Forces group, designated Task Force 121, has been assembled from Army Delta Force members, Navy seals, and C.I.A. paramilitary operatives, with many additional personnel ordered to report by January. Its highest priority is the neutralization of the Baathist insurgents, by capture or assassination.
The revitalized Special Forces mission is a policy victory for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has struggled for two years to get the military leadership to accept the strategy of what he calls “Manhuntsâ€