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US military guards escort a terrorist suspect prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility.
Director Hayden: US Default Option is to Kill Terrorists
November 10, 2011
| Security
| Middle East and North Africa
In an exclusive interview with LIGNET.com, former CIA Director Michael Hayden discusses the dilemma facing US policymakers on whether to kill or capture foreign terrorist suspects. Hayden says that although the United States may be losing crucial intelligence that could be gained by capturing and interrogating terrorists, a legal and political environment has developed in America that has made capturing and detaining terrorists extremely difficult.
In response to a question posed by LIGNET Managing Editor Fred Fleitz about whether the US currently has a policy to kill and not capture terrorist suspects, Director Hayden said that on one level killing terrorists is very satisfying and contended that the United States is under no obligation to risk American lives to capture a terrorist instead of killing him.
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