CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassin Program
• Washington PostA secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination
teams was outsourced in 2004 to Blackwater USA, the private security
contractor whose operations in Iraq prompted intense scrutiny,
according to two former intelligence officials familiar with the events.
NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20intel.html?_r=1&hp
AP:
http://www.wxix.com/Global/story.asp?S=10960485