BBC. 21 October 2001. Eliminate Bin Laden, CIA told.
President Bush has authorised the CIA to use lethal force to eliminate Osama Bin Laden and key members of his al-Qaeda organisation, the Washington Post has revealed. The president has given the agency the green light to do "whatever is necessary" in operations against al-Qaeda, a US official told the paper. The CIA has been handed an extra $1bn to fund covert operations and received an unprecedented order to work more closely with elite commando units. The order, signed by President Bush last month but disclosed now for the first time, was described as the most sweeping since the founding of the agency in 1947. American intelligence has detected "new and important" weaknesses in Bin Laden's organisation which will it will attack in lethal, secret operations, the paper quoted US sources as saying. However a Taleban official released a statement on Sunday saying that Bin Laden and his companions were "living in complete safety." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
