C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/us/14intel.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kill%20qaeda%20leaders&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Subject: re: C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
We have a name for civilian-clad assassination teams; we call them
unlawful combatants. We have a name for the governments who dispatch
them; we call them state sponsors of terrorism. It may be time for us
to revise our whole philosophy and rhetoric of war. For the U.S. to
reclaim its place in the community of civilized nations, we will first
have to learn to apply to ourselves the labels we apply to others.
Barry Levine