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Obama is pitting
Special Ops forces
against various
groups the White
House believes are
working 'against
American interests'.
Special Ops forces
against various
groups the White
House believes are
working 'against
American interests'.
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U.S. Increases Special Operations against Groups Worldwide
By Cliff Montgomery - Jun 6th, 2010
The Obama Administration has greatly increased the worldwide activities of U.S. Special Operations military
forces, The Washington Post stated this Friday.
Obama is pitting the Special Ops forces against various groups the White House believes are working 'against
American interests'. The groups are said to include al Qaeda and other-- apparently unnamed--entities.
U.S. Special Ops units currently are deployed in at least 75 countries. By comparison, these forces were
working in about 60 nations when Obama first took office in January 2009.
The numbers were printed by the Post, which cited top administration and military officials as the sources for its
data. The officials were not identified.
Plans already exist for retaliatory or pre-emptive strikes against various locations, which are to be conducted if
the administration believes it has identified a possible plot against 'U.S. interests' or if an attack is linked to a
particular group, stated the Post.
U.S. Special Operations teams now are working throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, as well
as in places where they've been a staple for years such as Colombia and the Philippines, according to the
newspaper.
The Obama Administration has asked Congress to increase the fiscal year 2011 Special Operations budget by
5.7 percent; this would create a budget total of $6.3 billion.
Special Operations leaders now are a much more regular White House presence than they were throughout
the Bush years, declared the Post.
"We have a lot more access," one military officer told the paper.
"They are talking publicly much less, but they are acting more. They are willing to get aggressive much more
quickly," the official added.
This certainly is true of Central Command--the Pentagon unit which directs American military operations across
the Horn Africa and the Middle East.
U.S. officials last month acknowledged that General David Petraeus, head of Central Command, in 2009
published a secret order which called for U.S. Special Ops units to work alongside local security forces
throughout the region, on the hopes of hemming in and possibly eliminating groups perceived as 'threats to
U.S. interests', according to officials.
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By Cliff Montgomery - Jun 6th, 2010
The Obama Administration has greatly increased the worldwide activities of U.S. Special Operations military
forces, The Washington Post stated this Friday.
Obama is pitting the Special Ops forces against various groups the White House believes are working 'against
American interests'. The groups are said to include al Qaeda and other-- apparently unnamed--entities.
U.S. Special Ops units currently are deployed in at least 75 countries. By comparison, these forces were
working in about 60 nations when Obama first took office in January 2009.
The numbers were printed by the Post, which cited top administration and military officials as the sources for its
data. The officials were not identified.
Plans already exist for retaliatory or pre-emptive strikes against various locations, which are to be conducted if
the administration believes it has identified a possible plot against 'U.S. interests' or if an attack is linked to a
particular group, stated the Post.
U.S. Special Operations teams now are working throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, as well
as in places where they've been a staple for years such as Colombia and the Philippines, according to the
newspaper.
The Obama Administration has asked Congress to increase the fiscal year 2011 Special Operations budget by
5.7 percent; this would create a budget total of $6.3 billion.
Special Operations leaders now are a much more regular White House presence than they were throughout
the Bush years, declared the Post.
"We have a lot more access," one military officer told the paper.
"They are talking publicly much less, but they are acting more. They are willing to get aggressive much more
quickly," the official added.
This certainly is true of Central Command--the Pentagon unit which directs American military operations across
the Horn Africa and the Middle East.
U.S. officials last month acknowledged that General David Petraeus, head of Central Command, in 2009
published a secret order which called for U.S. Special Ops units to work alongside local security forces
throughout the region, on the hopes of hemming in and possibly eliminating groups perceived as 'threats to
U.S. interests', according to officials.
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