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Report: Secret Military Commando Unit Stationed in D.C.

HeadlineJan 24, 2005

The New York Times is reporting that during the inauguration, the Pentagon stationed in Washington a small group of super-secret commando forces similar to the Special Operations forces hunting for Osama bin Laden. Under a top-secret military plan codenamed Power Geyser, the commando units have been trained to conduct counterterrorism missions in support of civilian agencies inside the United States. The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., home of the Army unit Delta Force. The code-name Power Geyser was first made public in a new book titled “Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operation in the 9/11 World.” The book, written by William Arkin, lists some 3,000 code names for secret governmental operations.

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