One More Time… NY Times Leaks Information on Secret Strikes Against Al-Qaeda

The New York Times’ gives the Bush Administration the finger one last time…

Are We Lumberjacks

The NY Times published another report on secret military operations today.
Of course, this information was fed to the paper by anonymous sources like all of the other secret operations they reported these last 8 years.
FOX News reported:

The U.S. military has conducted nearly a dozen secret operations against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria, Pakistan and other countries since 2004, The New York Times reported Sunday night.

Citing anonymous U.S. officials, the Times story said the operations were authorized by a broad classified order that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed and President George W. Bush approved in spring 2004. The order gave the military authority to attack Al Qaeda anywhere in the world and to conduct operations in countries that were not at war with the U.S.

One such operation was an Oct. 26 raid inside Syria, the Times reported. Washington has not formally acknowledged the raid, but U.S. officials have said the target was a top Al Qaeda in Iraq figure. Syria has asked for proof and said eight civilians were killed in the attack.

In another mission, in 2006, Navy SEALs raided a suspected terrorist compound in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

The raids have typically been conducted by U.S. Special Forces, often in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency, the newspaper said. Even though the process has been streamlined, specific missions have to be approved by the defense secretary or, in the cases of Syria and Pakistan, by the president.


Syrians mourn next the bodies of their relatives who were killed on October 26, 2008, in what the Syrian media reported as a deadly US military attack on the village of Sukkiraya, on the Syria-Iraq border. Iraq has said the deadly raid was targeting an area used by insurgents plotting attacks on its soil, as Damascus protested about what it branded a cold-blooded war crime by US forces. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

It will be interesting to see if these leaks continue during the Obama administration. They certainly damaged Bush.

Previously:
Slimy NY Times Leaks Name of Chief CIA Interrogator
Democrats Leak 6 Month Old Documents To Damage America!
Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror
Mushpile on the Old Gray Lady
The Leaking Times Are at It Again
House Intel Chief Fires Democratic Staffer Over Intel Leaks!
NYC Tunnel Plot Investigation Leaked to Reporters
NYT Leaks Info on Troop Levels

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