Phoenix rises: Preemptive Manhunting, the CIA's New Assassination Program: "Preemptive Manhunting is the new name for assassination and, according to Hersh (quoting one of his usual anonymous sources), the rationale for resorting to this immoral and illegal measure is that 'The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We're going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We've got to scare the Iraqis into submission.' This is a textbook description of 'selective terrorism' as the ultimate form of psychological warfare, and Hersh is correct in describing Preemptive Manhunting as the rebirth of the CIA's Phoenix Program in South Vietnam."

"The CIA's Phoenix assassination teams will rely on paid, anonymous Iraqi informants to identify which Ba'ath Party members will be murdered along with all their family, friends, and neighbors. And anyone else the CIA wants killed... One final note. Hersh mentions that Israel is guiding the CIA's Phoenix Program in Iraq, and as everyone knows, the Israelis are the world's masters of assassination and terrorizing an entire people into submission. What Hersh doesn't mention is that the blanket of censorship that prevents the American media from criticizing Israel for its war crimes has now been cast over Bush and the CIA."

Phoenix rises: Preemptive Manhunting, the CIA's New Assassination Program: "Preemptive Manhunting is the new name for assassination and, according to Hersh (quoting one of his usual anonymous sources), the rationale for resorting to this immoral and illegal measure is that 'The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We're going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We've got to scare the Iraqis into submission.' This is a textbook description of 'selective terrorism' as the ultimate form of psychological warfare, and Hersh is correct in describing Preemptive Manhunting as the rebirth of the CIA's Phoenix Program in South Vietnam."

"The CIA's Phoenix assassination teams will rely on paid, anonymous Iraqi informants to identify which Ba'ath Party members will be murdered along with all their family, friends, and neighbors. And anyone else the CIA wants killed... One final note. Hersh mentions that Israel is guiding the CIA's Phoenix Program in Iraq, and as everyone knows, the Israelis are the world's masters of assassination and terrorizing an entire people into submission. What Hersh doesn't mention is that the blanket of censorship that prevents the American media from criticizing Israel for its war crimes has now been cast over Bush and the CIA."