Blackwater Tapped Foreigners for Secret CIA Assassination Program
8-31-2009 democracynow.org
Blackwater Tapped Foreigners for Secret CIA Program
New details have emerged about how the CIA hired the private military firm Blackwater as part of a secret program to assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda. The Associated Press reports Blackwater offered the CIA the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government. A former senior CIA official said Blackwater relied on foreigners because “you wouldn’t want to have American fingerprints on it.”








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