Woodward: US assasinations in Iraq

[Gringinho]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.secret/
"The War Within: Secret White House History 2006-2008," Woodward disclosed the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders.

Are Woodward's claims at all plausible given US history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woodward


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects-Based_Operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals


Techniques discussed in School of Americas training manuals, 1987-1991:
• Motivation by fear

• Payment of bounties for enemy dead
• False imprisonment
• Use of truth serum
• Torture
• Execution
• Extortion
• Kidnapping and arresting a target’s family members




White House rejects claim in new Woodward book
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/08/woodward.whitehouse/index.html


Ware: Woodward's Iraq claims off the mark
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/09/ware.qanda/index.html


They aren't refuting an assassination program...
The attitude from the following CIA operative interview is telling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5L1VdlktOw