Politics

Pentagon Spy Network Hired to 'Track and Kill'

A Pentagon official has been accused of hiring a secret network of private contractors to spy on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan so they could be hunted and killed. The employee is said to have paid firms using former members of the special forces and CIA under the cover of an innocuous government scheme to gather tribal and cultural information. Their reports were then passed to military and intelligence units so they could kill militants and target insurgent camps, officials told The New York Times. It was not clear if Michael D Furlong, the Pentagon official at the centre of the accusations, had approval for the scheme but officials said they had become alarmed he was running an off-the-books spy agency.
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Posted by Editor at March 16, 2010 02:39 AM