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91:, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe at the time, there was no need to prove that drug money was actually being funneled to the Taliban to declare Afghan couriers, farmers, and dealers as legitimate targets of NATO strikes. In early-2009 Craddock issued an order to expand the JPEL list to include drug producers, but such targets had to be investigated as individual cases after a complaint by the German NATO General 231:
The kill/capture campaign that JSOC is executing targets enemies on a secret list called JPEL . According to Matthew Hoh, a former Foreign Service officer who resigned in 2009 because he felt U.S. tactics were only fueling the insurgency, the list includes bomb makers, commanders, financiers, people
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troops. The United Nations estimated that the Taliban was earning US$ 300 million a year through the drug trade, and according to a leaked NSA document "the insurgents could not be defeated without disrupting the drug trade." In the opinion of American military commanders such as
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Individuals on the list were assigned priority levels on a scale of one to four, with one being the most important. Since October 2008 the NATO defense ministers decided that drug networks would now be "legitimate targets" for
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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
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German troops listed Shirin Agha with the number 3145 and on 11 October 2010 German troops killed Agha. Coalition forces were authorized to kill or capture individuals named on the list.
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the list has 2,058 names. That list provided the intelligence basis for a pace of some 90
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as "an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine."
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who coordinate the weapons transport and even PR people
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Japanese People's Emancipation League
coalition forces in Afghanistan
Task Force 373
Afghan War Diary
Afghan War Diary
night-raids
PBS Frontline
Joint Special Operations Command
John Nagl
David Petraeus
ISAF
Bantz John Craddock
Egon Ramms
international law


"U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids"
Inter Press Service
the original
"WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war"
Boston Globe
Archived
"'Capture or Kill': Germany Gave Names to Secret Taliban Hit List"
Der Spiegel
Archived
"What is the secretive U.S. kill/capture list?"
PBS Frontline
Archived

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