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January 5, 2010

Germany Knew Nothing of Alleged CIA/Blackwater Murder Plot
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In other Blackwater news, the German government said Monday it knew
nothing about a report that the CIA and Blackwater had planned a secret
operation to assassinate a German-Syrian man in Hamburg linked to the
September 11 attacks. According to the magazine Vanity Fair, in 2004 the
CIA sent a team from Blackwater to Germany to kill Mamoun Darkazanli,
who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of
links to al-Qaeda. The hit team reportedly tracked Darkazanli for weeks,
but Washington authorities ended up calling off the assassination.
Vanity Fair also reported that the CIA considered having Blackwater
assassinate A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist.



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