More details have emerged on the Obama administration’s expansion of covert military operations abroad. Last month, the New York Times reported the US has authorized a major expansion of clandestine military operations abroad that includes intelligence gathering for a possible attack on Iran. Last week, the Washington Post reported Special Operations forces are now deployed in seventy-five countries, compared to sixty at the start of last year. Now independent journalist Jeremy Scahill reports for The Nation magazine that some of the countries where elite special forces have been deployed, aside from Iran, include Georgia, Ukraine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru, Yemen, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, Belgium, France and Spain. Forces have also been deployed to support US Drug Enforcement Agency operations in Colombia and Mexico.