Sunday, January 05, 2003

 

go unconventional

TIME FOR A DIRTY WAR THAT GETS TOUGH WITH THE ENEMY? Writing in the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh details Donald Rumsfeld's latest strategy which calls for a new special ops unit, Task Force 121, to track down, capture or terminate hard core members of the Iraqi resistance. Israeli intelligence officers have been brought in to help Americans plan their operations. Rumsfeld refers to the strategy as "Manhunts." Hersh quotes one U.S. advisor as saying, "The only way we can win is to go unconventional. WeĆ­re going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We've got to scare the Iraqis into submission." Another source told Hersh:"We did the American things-and we've been the nice guy. Now we're going to be the bad guy, and being the bad guy works." GLOBAL BEAT (January 5-12, 2003)
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