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Germany gave assassination list to secret US unit

By John Byrne
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 -- 10:12 am

angelamerkelgermany20090904 Germany gave assassination list to secret US unit

The German government supplied a secret Pentagon task force with names of Taliban leaders that the US then could target for assassination, documents show.

Buried in the 92,000 pages of documents released by the Web site Wikileaks is evidence that show the German government abetted a secret program to kill or capture Taliban leaders. The German government has already been helping the US generate a "hit list" through NATO, but this list went a step farther, bypassing transparency and judicial process.

The once-secret list, titled the "Joint Prioritized Effects List," was used by the Pentagon's Task Force 373 to target, kill and capture Taliban leaders.

"Thanks to the WikiLeaks revelations, war-weary Germany now knows that German officials added names to the JPEL at least 13 times," the German publication Der Spiegel wrote Monday. "On this list, 13 names translate into 13 potential death warrants. The Germans only mark their candidates with a C for "capture," and not with a K for "kill." But in fact all International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops are authorized to shoot and kill candidates on the JPEL list if, for example, they attempt to avoid capture by fleeing. In other words, although German elite troops do not use the kill option themselves, Germany does provide its tacit approval of the killing of candidates in the zone under its control in northern Afghanistan."

Adds Der Spiegel:

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To add a name to the JPEL list, the Regional Command North, which is led by a German, must first propose a candidate based on its evidence. The petition is sent to the German operations command near Potsdam outside Berlin, where it is reviewed and then sent to the Defense Ministry. If a positive decision is made, the petition is sent back to Afghanistan, where it also has to be approved by the supreme commander of the ISAF troops. It is a process that reflects the precision of German bureaucracy, and one that can have serious consequences for the people it affects in Afghanistan.

There are now six lists containing the names of targets. The JPEL list, to which the Germans contribute, is the NATO list. But Task Force 373 isn't operating on a NATO ticket. It receives its orders directly from the Pentagon. The German government would neither confirm nor deny whether the names on the Pentagon list are derived from the NATO list.

There is evidence that the German nomination has already had drastic consequences for 13 Afghans. According to a briefing given to members of parliament, this is the number of men the Bundeswehr has placed on the NATO hit list. Senior German military officials even say that the total number of names submitted lies in the "two to three-digit range." In 2007, the Bundeswehr named two Taliban commanders, who were assigned the file numbers 74 and 77, but Mullah Rustam and Qari Jabar were deleted from the list prior to 2009 due to a lack of evidence. Three others were added a year later, and two of them are now in custody. Four enemies of the Bundeswehr were captured in 2009, and another four in 2010.

The decision to release 92,000 pages of documents concerning the US war in Afghanistan has sparked a vitriolic response from those who believe the information should be kept secret.

Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter, claimed in a Washington Post op-ed Monday that because Wikileaks has published classified information, they should be considered in violation of the espionage act and taken down using "military assets," even if that means kidnapping founder Julian Assange from an undisclosed location within the European Union -- which would be a violation of international and domestic laws.

On Sunday, the White House denounced the massive leak of secret military files that also describe how Pakistan's spy service aids the Afghan insurgency.

In all, some 92,000 documents were released by the web whistleblower Wikileaks, containing previously untold details of the Afghan war through Pentagon files and field reports spanning from 2004 to 2010.

According to the New York Times, one of the first three media outlets to publish reports on the leaks, they "suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Taliban."

Describing the talks as "secret strategy sessions," the newspaper said they "organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders."

White House National Security Advisor James Jones issued a statement to reporters shortly before the documents were posted online, saying the leaks were "irresponsible" but would not impact US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

With AFP.

  • Rush Goofbaugh
    bypassing transparency and judicial process???? When did I vote for..... this?
  • MERKEL,ALSO PUT OUT CONTRACT ON GERMAN CITIZENS,BY SELLING OUT TO AMERICAS PHARMACEUTICAL CARTELS,SO THEY MIGHT ENJOY THE SAME SLOW DEATH OF CHRONIC DISEASE THAT AMERICANS UNKNOWINGLY DO
  • cohentelstar
    What's the only "safe" position to take? The Whole Earth Amnesty Non-Violence Party? The "None of the Above" party? The "Not-participating" party? The "keep a safe distance" party? The "neither one nor the other" party? The "everyone play nice" party? If there are such entrenched and committed people and institutions worldwide that are inherently and by definition set in opposition to each other, what sense is there in belonging to one of them? Just duck your head and avoid the crossfire.
  • davidtgray
    Where was this reaction to the outing of Valerie Plame, who was involved in our so-called "war on terrorism"? What a bunch of hypocrites in DC and other climes!!

    Carry water for the military-industrial-congressional-telecommunications-educational complex and you can do no wrong. Challenge the status quo and you've got to go. Democracy? Not even democracy. :-(
  • TJoad
    Did the hit list include that spoiled rich oil brat terrorist who tried to give Chancellor Merkel a shoulder grope?
  • aherring
    Huh? We should feel bad for Taliban, people who chop off the noses & ears of young girls & hang 7 year old boys? Allies help allies. This is war. Get over it.
  • dickerson3870
    RE: "Allies help allies." - aherring (A red herring, perchance?)
    MY REPLY: Kewl, dude!
  • malichimartin
    Can you defend a religious regime who’s agenda is to ultimately descry liberty, destroy freedom to worship what you wish and ultimately enforce sharia Law?
    It appears to be a clear case of hypocrisy justified by the sins of the past religious leaders. A hypocrite acts in a way contrary to what they profess to be true or believe. The Jews enforced the law of the Torah, it resulted in followers with out faith or as we say a hypocrite. When the Christians enforced the laws of the new testament it resulted in followers with out faith, or as we say hypocrites. When the Muslims enforce their laws, it will result in the same, .... hypocrites.. Time after time the wave of apostasy and hypocrites have bought death and destruction, upon man kind. . If the Muslim’s way... is not the idea of Love and peace at its critical mass, (when they have achieved there domination of a land) , then is an apostate religion of hypocrites.

    True religion is to care for one another , the homeless, the widows, the orphaned, the sick the hungry and the oppressed, to bring freedom and the example of love to all those we meet, God is clear in His word that we are to liberate others not lead them into more oppression. And I believe this also means it is not in our best interest or for freedom lands best interest to allow more apostasy into the land.. Sick makes healthily sick. Health never is a result of an infection. The apostasy and hypocrisy of the nation needs no help from the Muslims, We have done a fine job of that already.

    So , are we to protect our freedom and our lands of “freedom”? Will we be wise enough to look ahead and see the out come of a nation of Islamic rule. Don’t you understand all you female boogers would surely be put to death for your “ out spoke and evil ways”. Also , all who denied that Mohamad is the one and only true profit will be beheaded, or stoned alive buried up to your waist in sand and then stoned..
    I say we must stand up for Liberty and defend it. We now possess something never held by a nation until now. a fleeting but free choice. One to embrace God and become obedient to his holy spirit, and one to deny God and his life giving spirit which exists in all of us,... for a few years.... (on Loan until death) . But mostly we hold the chance to live in peace with all men as much as we are able, until our death. And for that we must be on guard.

    If you take away that free choice, the free choice you have, and the free choice I have Then you will achieve complete apostasy of the truth, and a false religion will be forced upon all, A Muslim nation allows for no free choice, they might as well all be robots, for out of fear and not love do they worship. They do it to obtain a false eternity, An eternity which boasts of 70 virgins , to do with what they want. Is this a place for a woman to live in eternal peace? It is an abomination and a profane thing to think of Gods kingdom in this way. God is a spiritual Being and not seduced by the flesh as we are, Why would all the self denial he asks of us in this body produce an even more carnal existence in that new and eternal body, I tell you it is a perverse thing to teach and it is from the fallen angels, Who will soon return in a “great delusion” to force upon all those who are with out knowledge of the word..

    God tells us and shows us that he never wanted a forced love from us,. like wine out of grapes. But God asks us, and wants for us to become over comers of hate and apostasy. And to be willing givers of ourselves in love. To service others in need. There is no eventual beheading of all who don’t choose to walk in love and , in the truth of God, The freedom to deny is yours. There is Just the final judgement when all are called to the judgement seat. Our Love for others and God must come from a pure faith, not a forced will.. If then the MUSLIMS gain their slow and methodic control of the world , we will all be marked for death. Any who will not bow to “Balam ” or the Mahudi, or Mohamed. We have enough apostasy in the land. For example , ...on the even ridiculous side of true current events, we all ready have half of our nations leaders going up to the “ Bohemian Grove ” in mid. July to worship the owls of Molech, an ancient false god of the Chaldeans, ... Don’t believe me ,,, Goggle it. I guess freemasonry is gaining its own apostasy. But as long as the enemy is willing to accommodate the lusts of man, there will be no shortage of this type of behavior. Why do we need to allow more false worship into this nation.


    If you value your freedom you will wake up to the agenda of Lies on all sides. Protect freedom and your children retain the ability to choose. . Understand this... for sure, your free will be taken away and your children will have their heads taken off if they don’t obey. This is the Muslim way when all is in their hand. , Stay blind to it and you will loose your freedom to deny God and I will loose mind to worship him. I believe in the Father God of the Lord Jesus the savior to come. And the Muslims who believe in the totalitarianism of sharia Law. Iif they gain control of America, ...as is their wish. We will experience apostasy like never before on the face of the earth.
  • cohentelstar
    Boogers are neither male nor female. Also the displacement of identity and responsibility to "God," or "Allah," or "Devil," or Vishnu, Brahman, or Shiva is more of a literary and neuro-linguistic programming trick than the actual existence of a Deity separate from human will and volition. A "judgment seat" either doesn't exist or it is a man-made "summary execution," so to say there is a "Creator" or "God" we answer to diverts attention from the actual human beings who have convinced themselves that they are on his/her side and have natural enemies who are less than human. Hence the phrase to "demonize" the enemy.
  • Syed92
    You are the BIGGEST HYPOCRITE OF ALL TIMES! Learn Islam first, sure the hypocrites occupy the power unjustly. The Christianity's "LOVE AND PEACE" is another ONE OF THE BIGGEST HYPOCRICY. Christianity wants to rule and enslave all, as we have seen in past 1600 years.

    WHEN DID THE CHURCH SIDE WITH THE POOR, MEAGER, DISADVANTAGED IN THE PAST 1600 YEARS? Never to my knowledge. When did the Chjristianity proclaim freedom for others? NEVER. Look at the history of Christian faith and governments. Europe was ruled by POPE FAVOURED LORDS, and they enslaved their own whites. Then it came out of europe and enslaved the Africans and Asians
    Bible teaches to kill the sons of Ham, i.e The whole African race, how INHUMAN THE RELIGION AND AND ITS ADVOCATES CAN BE?

    DON'T PREACH TO US THE FILTHY RELIGION AND THE FILTHY EURO-AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF THE REST OF THE WORLD. Keep your good ness to you, Mr.good and free.
  • both of you religious nuts suck. I just want to find the guy who muttered the word god first, so that i can do stuff to him that after seeing even if there was a god that bastard would want to commit suicide after seeing it.
  • fuck yeah! go germany!
  • dnamj
    plenty of slime to go around here. I'm glad for wikileaks. Somehow the truth must be told.
  • It's a war. Of course in war you are supposed to try and capture or kill enemy troops. This is common sense.
  • Knot
    It's not a war, it's a military occupation. This article is not about killing or capturing enemy troops, it is about the occupying force having a policy of extra-judicial executions of political enemies and lying to the public about the policy because they are violating the Geneva Conventions and German law.
  • Rush Goofbaugh
    and this "war" was declared when???? By who??? Common sense???
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    "Joint Prioritized Effects List"

    They clearly know they are doing the Devil's work or they would come right out and call it a hit list.
  • airjackie
    Yes and the US paid Germany to allow the planes with innocent kidnapped men/women/children on them to refuel so the US could take them to countries like Iran/Syria to be tortured. Germany saw the US COW and milked it for as much money as possible. That's why the US can't account for 7 Trillions dollars debt spent in 2000 to 2009.
  • TJoad
    A little bit of transparency is causing a lot of problems for governments used to doing all sorts of illegal and immoral stuff in the shadows. I say expose everything and clean house of these bad people and policies that are stinking up the world. We could use a thousand Wikileaks.
  • They should just declare war and make it all legal. I don't know why this sort of list should be kept secret at all. Everyone should know that if you join the Taliban that the USA is going to try to capture and or kill you. This is common sense.
  • Rush Goofbaugh
    maybe.... just maybe.... we should stop giving them a reason to join the Taliban???

    Force ... war... is always the choice of the morally and intellectually bankrupt.
  • sandi2
    Yep, and if you have a website that allows for whistleblowers to publish material anonymously that the U.S. is going to try to capture and/or kill you. And if you are an outspoken Muslim cleric the U.S. is going to try to capture and/or kill you. And. . . . .
  • TJoad
    I was under the impression that we were in Afghanistan to root out Al Qaeda. It is also my understanding that there are probably less than 50 Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan. Probably more in Saudi Arabia, but we won't go there.
  • Syed92
    Do you know who brought into existence, taught the distorted Islam, declared them "MOJAHID", funded and got USSR destroyed by the same people? The republican evil people of USA. Now USA is after genocide of Afghans, not just killing of few Talban. The reality on the ground is different. WEST WANTS TO FINISH OFF THE AFGHAN CULTURE!
    This is war of hypocricy at best!
  • you mean the guntrotting, nose and ears chopping, beheading culture of bum shown to the sky kinda culture, there is nothing wrong if that finishes. All religious retards should have that very end.
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    Unfortunately, the entire barrel is rotten.
  • TheDevilCanDance
    Rotf. Germans being Germans......
  • steve_real
    small potatos.
    If I was the field Marshall for all German forces
    I'd march that whole army down south and into Kandahar.
    Today.
    We need more elite German forces,
    not less.
    What are the German politikos thinking?
    I read the German polls too.
    I understand they are under extreme politikal duress,
    but I need that Army to stand firm
    in the very least for another 12 to 18 months.

    Perseverance
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    Stupidity
  • bobdevo
    'I need that Army to stand firm'

    I guess that's because can't get it up anymore?
  • w000t
    Well sure, as long as they take the democratic mask off, then Wikileaks doesn't have take it off for them. Good point.
  • AtlanticCapers
    Obama sold fascism to Democrats in less than two years. Selling it to Germany probably took less than two minutes.
  • TheDevilCanDance
    Lol
  • ykwrecords
    lot of trouble for a queer lip syncing lady gaga music.
  • rawstorysuspect
    Haters to the left, LADY GAGA RULES
  • What is wrong with ,taking care of your people,Even when your people are blind to a need!A surgeon must cut open the skin,to remove the disease,before its very explosion kills ME dead...
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    YOU are the disease. YOU need to be surgically removed. The French invented a neat little device for doing that.
  • Some would assume that there are no terrorists in this world. I am as anti war as the next person but can still face the fact that there are bad people around.

    My manner of eliminating OBL and others is to just go do it. Dont say a word. DOnt start 2 huge wars and kill innocents.

    But you still have to accept there are people out there who mean us harm. These people prove it by their own words.

    Lets grow up a tad
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    It continually amazes me how stupid liberals can be. They were virtually decapitated in the 60s by rightwing assassins, and now they are being stampeded into supporting the murder of Arabs because of a rightwing-orchestrated false flag operation on September 11. Don't you guys ever wake up?
  • Savantster
    And the people meaning to do us the most harm are those who control our money, thus our ability to live.

    The people YOU think are "out to hurt us" are retaliating against those that are actually undermining our entire capacity to exist peacefully. Despite more jobs leaving the country, Wall Street is making cash hand over fist. Who's benefiting the most from these "terrorists" and their attacks..? the same people that lied us into illegally invading Iraq to begin with.

    You should ask yourself why we didn't simply kill OBL.. or why we LET HIM GO when we had him cornered in Tora Bora.. or why the CIA met with him weeks before we were attacked in 2001 and didn't apprehend him even though he was already wanted for several other crimes.

    Yes.. there are people out there who want to harm us.. and many of them are controlling our government.
  • 1. There is no us. It's every individual/family/clan/tribe/corporation for themselves.
    2. They all view "you" as property. Whether it be a street gang, a mafia, a government, or a clan you will pay protection money.
    3. It's all about power. Whether the current group of corrupt individuals maintain power or a new group replaces them, it's all about power and control, that is what politics are about and thats what government is about.

    So if you are thinking logical about this, figure out which group/family/government/tribe offers you the most power, weigh their offer against all the other offers, and accept or decline. The mercenaries and soldiers will profit as the tribes go to war against each other for power. There really is no "us" or "we", it's everybody grabbing what piece of the pie they can grab. The mercenaries who fight were once the knights of the middle ages, and the reason that some of these knights controlled so much money is because while the churches were creating holy wars against other forms of Christianity or against Islam, the warrior caste learned how to fight for whichever side paid them better. This allowed the warrior caste to become wealthy.

    This is also what allowed the USA to become wealthy. The USA has a history of being the warrior caste of the western world. Whenever Europe or other NATO countries want to stop certain other countries or other groups from taking control of the middle east or natural resources, it's always the USA that is paid to go and fight the wars, build the weapons, and generally take the vast majority of the PR damage. Even in this case with Germany we can see that the Germans just want to pay Americans to do all the dirty work for them so they can keep their hands clean and look like they don't endorse these wars.

    Understand the the USA is only a superpower and only economically great because of World War 2 and because we are great warriors. Germany and the rest of Europe, China and all the other countries don't really need any other service or product from us besides our weapons and our soldiers. So it's not like the USA is in the best position here, and it's not like the USA should take all the blame. The USA is in the position of mercenary army for the Europeans who haven't really fought any wars for the last 30+ years if not longer. When was the last time Germany fought a war?
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    the terrorists are in the pentagon. they are not in afghanistan. wake up already.
  • There are potential terrorists anywhere and everywhere. The difference is the people in the Pentagon have FBI files compiled on them. They don't have the same sort of power as mafia dons and warlords because people know who they are, where they live, what they do, there is a level of transparency. The problem you face if you dismantle the US government is that this country would be overrun by gangsters who are even worse than the ones currently in charge. So unless you are a gangster or member of a mafia, what do you have to gain by a change of leadership?

    As a peasant your life could go from bad to worse. Meaning the new bosses could be even worse than the current bosses. So unless you know who the new bosses will be, unless you are on that side as we speak fighting with them, you never really know what they'll do or how they'll treat you. I do know I don't want the Taliban to be the new boss, as they are as conservative and as backwards as it gets. And if you want the Russia or Italian mafia to be the new boss then you have to deal with that style of government. Basically no matter who is in charge it's going to be corrupted by gangsters, clans, and power hungry psychos.
  • sandi2
  • apocalypto
    I wonder about these OBL is dead rumors. Part of me is waiting for him to be marched into a press conference in shackles in October.

    American citizens tired of being told the boogeyman is coming to get them will soon need to see the boogeyman. OBL captured or maybe nuke a city with one of those missing nukes? That should get those executive orders fulfilled.
  • sandi2
    "I wonder about these OBL is dead rumors. Part of me is waiting for him to be marched into a press conference in shackles in October".

    Nah, rumor states that he usually visited the White House under the name of "Tim Osman".
  • Benway for the Nova Police
    thanks for that. maybe somebody will actually finally get it.
  • AtlanticCapers
    The Taliban is not a terrorist organization.
  • dennycrane
    That's the job of groups that work above the law: create the boogeymen into a "baseball card" like characters and then "trade" them amongst other narcissists from other crazy groups.
  • seen2much
    You lie with dogs, you're liable to get up with fleas...

    Don't worry you little warmongering murderers: Lindsay Lohan just got out of jail, that mosque near the 9-11 site just scored a major win, a couple of mass shootings in various work places are liable to pop up, and Charlie Sheen went to court so plenty of distraction to keep the addle headed public from looking at anything important.

    Move along... Nothing to see here.....
  • proudliberal1947
    Isn't it great that you live in a Couintry were the people are so STUPID they give credence and Credibility to the Plastic people and dismiss the real issues as "WHO CARES", and they even have their own RACIST, Nazi radio and TV station to distrort, twist and manipulate the Facts and they do it with Pride , but as any of these IDIOTS on the right will Tell you the way to show true American Pride is with Hatred and FEAR and act in a COWARDLY way. Must be great being a SPINELESS, GUTLESS, Anti-American COWARD and you call yourself republican to prove it, tea bagger for Fear and Hate
  • dennycrane
    Who's winning american idol?
  • sandi2
    Ellen DeGeneres. She successfully escaped.
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