{"id":10807,"date":"2009-08-19T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2010-08-26T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:51:27","slug":"blackwater-usa-hired-by-cia-to-kill-al-qaeda-leaders-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/blackwater-usa-hired-by-cia-to-kill-al-qaeda-leaders-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater USA Hired By CIA To Kill al Qaeda Leaders &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted intense scrutiny, according to two former intelligence officials familiar with the events.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Editor&#8217;s Note &#8211; This operation was originally launched in 2001, shortly after al Qaeda killed over 3,000 Americans on 911. Why wouldn&#8217;t we go after their leadership using any and all available options?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/19\/AR2009081904315.html?hpid=topnews\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/08\/26\/MNO01F3EPF.DTL\">CIA calls al Qaeda in Yemen top terror threat<\/a> (sfgate.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rss\/breaking_news\/270961\/us_to_step_up_pressure_on_al-qaeda_in_yemen:_official\/\">US to step up pressure on Al-Qaeda in Yemen: official<\/a> (alternet.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE67M4MP20100823\">Blackwater in $42 million export rules penalty<\/a> (reuters.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=709e73d2-f57a-4ef7-b0d1-022929457801\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted intense scrutiny, according to two former intelligence officials familiar with the events. Editor&#8217;s Note &#8211; This operation was originally launched in 2001, shortly after al Qaeda killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3536,1732,3535,3534,4482,1127,906,955,7727,7728,3537,1015,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}