Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Jeremy Scahill

[G_j]

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23597

Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 11, 2010 By Jeremy Scahill
Source: The Nation

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.

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[Quantess]

1. That Blackwater sure has been busy.

[winyanstaz]

2. international murder ring....for hire to the highest bidder......

my...how nice.

[brewens]

3. I wonder who else this guy had ties to besides Al Qaeda?

lots of people have ties to Al Qaeda but that doesn't get a team deployed to eliminate them.

[G_j]

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