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Pentagon pursuing anti-terror
role for secret military forces
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The secret side of the U.S. mili
tary’s war on terrorism is quiet
ly growing.
The Pentagon is planning to
expand its use of special opera
tions troops, including those that
operate covertly in tandem with
the CIA’s paramilitary force,
officials and private experts say.
Special operations forces
played a critical role in toppling
the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan last fall and they
almost surely would figure
prominently in the earliest
stages of a U.S. military action
in Iraq, coordinating with local
forces opposed to Saddam
Hussein and hunting for Scud
missile launchers.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld believes the military
needs to improve its ability to
find and track terrorists around
the globe and to take decisive
action against them. His moves
toward that goal have caused
some friction with the CIA and
led to concern among some that
the Pentagon’s civilian leaders
will only gather and act on those
pieces of intelligence that they
want to hear and deliver to the
Bush White House.
Officially, the Pentagon does
not discuss its covert capabilities,
but indications of Rumsfeld’s
interest in this shadowy area are
apparent in a recent study by an
advisory group.
The study called for the
Pentagon and CIA to develop a
new capability to “evoke
responses” from terrorist
groups so they can be attacked
pre-emptively. Covert action,
psychological operations, com
puter attacks, special opera
tions forces and “deception
operations” would be com
bined in that role.
Michael Vickers, a former
Special Forces soldier and
one-time CIA officer, said the
evolving nature of the war on
terrorism makes it likely that
covert military operators will
be called on more often in the
months ahead. Having success
fully chased the al-Qaida from
Afghanistan — their main oper
ating base — the United States
and its coalition piirtners may
need more unconventional
forces to chase down individual
fugitives elsewhere.
“This is basically a growth
industry,” said Vickers, now an
analyst at the Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Assessments.
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used to target terrorists are
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