The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq.
By Seymour M. Hersh The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq.
On February 4th, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is revered in Pakistan as the father of the country's nuclear bomb, appeared on a state-run television… The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq.
Today it is known that some sort of attack did occur, which President Johnson exaggerated, perhaps unintentionally, in his quest for a Congressional resolution that authorized what turned out to be a steady escalation of the Vietnam War.
They ignored or didn't understand our warnings to stop, and according to the military's "escalation of force" guidelines, we were authorized to shoot them in self-defense.
If the Iranian leadership authorized such a plot, he said, that would mark "a major escalation against the United States, of the kind that hasn't happened since the Iranian Revolution".
A Lebanese military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media, described the fighting as "a significant escalation". By Sunday evening, however, the peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or Unifil, said that it had brokered a cease-fire and that the shooting had stopped.
Thatcher authorized her release.
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