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| Posted by DevSix On 03/07/2006 9:48:57 PM CST · 6 replies · 114+ views NYT ^ | 3-8-06 | THOM SHANKER Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence By THOM SHANKER and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON, March 7 — The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops in a growing number of American embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them. Senior Pentagon officials and military officers say the effort is part of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's two-year drive to give the military a more active intelligence role in the campaign against terrorism. But it has drawn opposition from traditional intelligence agencies like... |
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