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Tuesday
Nov292016

U.S. Builds Secret Mideast Nerve Center

EDITOR'S NOTE: JSOC operates with practically no accountability. In Iraq, it ran a torture chamber at a place called Camp Nama.

DAILY BEAST

Preparing for a multi-generational, international fight against terrorists, U.S. special operations chiefs are launching a new counterterrorist nerve center at an undisclosed location in the Middle East to fight the so-called Islamic State, al Qaeda, and any other terrorist actor.

The Joint Special Operations Command, the U.S. military’s premier counterterrorist strike force, is expanding its existing targeting nerve center in the region to make space for more American terror hunting personnel from three-letter agencies like the CIA, NSA, and FBI to foreign partners like Britain, France, Iraq and Jordan.

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