Washington’s death squads
In a lengthy article published Sunday, the New York Times
provided a glimpse into the criminal and grisly methods employed by Seal
Team 6, a secret unit within the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations
Command (JSOC).
The unit was made famous by the phony accounts of
its assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, cover stories that
were blown last month by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh,
who exposed the operation as the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed and
decrepit individual who had been fingered by Pakistani intelligence.
What the Times
account makes clear—whatever the newspaper’s intentions and its
undoubted vetting of its material with the Pentagon and the White
House—is that in the pursuit of its global interests, the United States
government has become ever more dependent upon the murderous operations
of secret death squads.
The newspaper quotes a Pentagon spokesman
as saying that the number of missions carried out by Seal Team 6 and
other special operations units has risen to the “tens of thousands”
since 2001. The victims killed by Seal Team 6, whose very existence the
US military refuses to acknowledge, number in the thousands, the vast
majority of them unidentified individuals with no link to any plot or
threat against the US itself.
