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* Unmittelbar nach 09/11, am 21.09. 2001 legalisierte Präsident George W. Bush den gezielten Einsatz von Killerdrohnen (115): | * Unmittelbar nach 09/11, am 21.09. 2001 legalisierte Präsident George W. Bush den gezielten Einsatz von Killerdrohnen (115): | ||
"President George W. Bush signed a secret 'Memorandum of Notification" giving the CIA carte blanche to hunt down and kill high-value Targets in the al-Qaeda leadership. Bush also approved a list of about twi dozen people whom the CIA was authorized to kill or capture without further presidential Review and allowed the Addition of names to that list with no permission necessary. On the day he signed the document, Bush spoke with Reporters at the Pentaton saying: 'I want justice, and there's an old poster out West, as I recall, saying WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE'. Reporting on the presidential 'kill list', the New York Times noted: ' Despite the authority given to the agancy, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force" (115) | "President George W. Bush signed a secret 'Memorandum of Notification" giving the CIA carte blanche to hunt down and kill high-value Targets in the al-Qaeda leadership. Bush also approved a list of about twi dozen people whom the CIA was authorized to kill or capture without further presidential Review and allowed the Addition of names to that list with no permission necessary. On the day he signed the document, Bush spoke with Reporters at the Pentaton saying: 'I want justice, and there's an old poster out West, as I recall, saying WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE'. Reporting on the presidential 'kill list', the New York Times noted: ' Despite the authority given to the agancy, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force" (115) | ||
* in 2013 "things had come a very Long way since George Bush had begun crossing out names in the list he kept in his desk drawér. A well-funded bureacratic mechanism to service the 'Disposition matrix' as the kill list had been euphemistically relabeled, was centred at the national Counterterrorism Center, whose 500-strong staff was charged with, among other things, collating the various lists crafted by the CIA and JSOC and others. (As noted, the president liked to have the very last word. 'Turns out I'm really good at killing People,' he remarked the day Awlaki dies. "Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine'.)(241) | |||
=== Rechtfertigung unter Obama (nach Koh)=== | === Rechtfertigung unter Obama (nach Koh)=== | ||