Jeremy Scahill | The Nation

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Meet the Special Operations unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

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The latest WikiLeaks dump has corroborated, in part, what sources recently told The Nation about covert military actions in over seventy-five countries.

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Internal documents reveal the firm's clandestine work for multinationals and governments.

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