Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?

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German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair profile of Blackwater's owner Erik Prince.

The magazine reported that after 9/11, the CIA used one of Prince's homes in Virginia as a covert training facility for hit teams that would hunt Al Qaeda suspects globally. Their job was find, fix, and finish: "Find the designated target, fix the person's routine, and, if necessary, finish him off," as the magazine put it.

According to Vanity Fair, one of the team's targets was Mamoun Darkazanli, a naturalized German citizen originally from Syria. Darkazanli has been accused by Spain of being an Al Qaeda supporter with close ties to the alleged 9/11 plotters who lived in Hamburg. The Blackwater/CIA team "supposedly went in 'dark,' meaning they did not notify their own station--much less the German government--of their presence," according to Vanity Fair. "hey then followed Darkazanli for weeks and worked through the logistics of how and where they would take him down." Authorities in Washington, however, "chose not to pull the trigger."

This week, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union called on Washington to provide an explanation. "If this commando really existed and the U.S. government knew about it but didn't notify our government then this would be a very grave incident," said the lawmaker, Wolfgang Bosbach.

His concerns were echoed in the US by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "This really is part of an ongoing investigation that I can't talk about, but even the fact that there is that allegation, I think, gives one a picture of the degree to which Blackwater has been completely enmeshed in these secret operations," Schahowsky said. "And, you know, at least the allegation that they are, I think is disturbing enough. And there is an investigation going on around activities like that."

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/157-civilian-security/705-jeremy-scahill-did-cia-send-a-blackwater-hit-team-to-germany

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1. No doubt with Cheney's eager encouragement. nt

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2. From another blog:

News of CIA/Blackwater hit squad upset German government

January 7, 2010

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |

German politicians have finally caught up with the startling revelations of Blackwater founder and CEO, Erik Prince, who last month told Vanity Fair that he worked as a CIA spy, carrying out secret missions with the help of a Blackwater hit squad. The Vanity Fair article revealed that, among other targets, the squad planned to assassinate Mamoun Darkazanli, an alleged al-Qaeda financier living in Hamburg, Germany. But did anyone in Washington think to ask the German government whether it was OK for a Blackwater/CIA assassination team to run around the country, planning extrajudicial murders of alleged al-Qaeda members? Apparently no, says German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, adding that the revelation has upset members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, as well as opposition Social Democrats and Greens, who are now demanding a special investigation into the matter. Could Germany become the second European country, after Italy, to hand out jail sentences to CIA agents (or contractors) for illegal undercover activities? If so, the case will involve most of Blackwater’s (now renamed Xe Services) senior leadership, including Erik Prince himself. Late last night, the Associated Press contacted CIA spokesperson George Little, who “declined to comment on the case”.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/01-356/

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3. But we are the United State of America. We can do what ever we want, where ever we want.

But you can't object or defend yourselves, 'cause that would make you a terrorist! Then we will sent a predator drone and take your out you and your neighborhood with impunity, 'cause we are the good guys.
For the reality challenged, ringers and right-wing spooks here- :sarcasm: But not by much.