9.16.2011

The war machine

White House Weighs Limits of Terror Fight - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s legal team is split mover how much latitude the United States has to kill Islamist militants in Yemen and Somalia...

The debate...centers on whether the United States may take aim at only a handful of high-level leaders of militant groups who are personally linked to plots to attack the United States or whether it may also attack the thousands of low-level foot soldiers focused on parochial concerns....

 

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