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Mon 06 Jun 2008Report claims €400m allotted for secret war in Iran
US:THE BUSH administration has significantly increased covert military operations inside Iran aimed at destabilising the country's government, according to a US report published yesterday.
The report, in the New Yorker magazine, quotes military, intelligence and congressional sources as saying that CIA and special forces operations were ordered by US president George Bush in a "presidential finding" in the past few months. It said Mr Bush sought - and congressional leaders from both parties approved - $400m (€250m) for the secret war, which includes abductions and assassinations.
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