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These commandos, operating under a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power Geyser, were mentioned publicly for the first time last week on a Web site for a new book, "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World," by William Arkin, a former Army intelligence analyst.
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The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a highly secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army's Delta Force. In the past, the command has also provided support to domestic law-enforcement agencies during high-risk events like the Olympics and political party conventions, according to the Web site of GlobalSecurity.org, a research organization in Alexandria, Va.
The role of the armed forces in the United States has been a contentious issue for more than a century. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, like policing, was enacted after the Civil War in response to the perceived misuse of federal troops who were charged with policing in the South.
Over the years, the law has been amended to allow the military to lend equipment to federal, state and local authorities, assist federal agencies in drug-interdiction work, protect national parks and execute quarantine and certain health laws. About 5,000 federal troops supported civilian agencies at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City three years ago.
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The commandos in Washington last week were the same type of special-ops forces that are hunting top insurgents in Iraq and Osama bin Laden in the wilds of the Afghan-Pakistan border. But under the top-secret military plan, they are also conducting counter-terrorism missions in support of civilian agencies on U.S. soil.
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