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General David Petraeus, head of Central Command, issued the order
in September to bolster intelligence gathering against Islamist
extremists and lay the ground for possible attacks by US forces,
officials said.

The order was first reported by the New York Times and defense and
military officials told AFP the account was accurate.

The order also allows for reconnaissance before possible military
action in Iran, amid mounting tensions over Tehran's nuclear program

Petraeus orders US spies to prepare for anti-nuclear strike on Iran

Giles Whittell and Michael Evans, Washington

Times(UK) May 26, 2010

Teams of American special forces have been authorised to conduct
spying missions intended to pave the way for a military strike on
Iran in case President Obama orders one, US government sources have
confirmed.

The military units would penetrate Iranian territory to reconnoitre
potential nuclear targets and make contact with friendly dissident
groups, according to a secret directive written by General David
Petraeus. The document's existence was disclosed for the first time
yesterday.

It authorises an expansion in the use of US special forces throughout
the Middle East, US officials said. However, it is the possibility
of American troops operating covertly inside Iran that has the
greatest potential to destabilise regional security.

General Petraeus, the most senior American commander in the Middle
East and Central Asia, relied on special forces to ensure the success
of the US troop surge in Iraq in 2007. His order to increase the
use of Delta Force, Navy Seal and Army Ranger units for intelligence
gathering and combat missions could jeopardise US relations with
allies in the region while intensifying a long-running turf war
between US military intelligence and the CIA.

The seven-page document, seen by The New York Times, remained
classified yesterday, though it was written in September. Since
then US military specialists working with Yemeni armed forces have
killed 6 out of 15 leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The raids followed reports linking the group to the murder of 13
Americans at Fort Hood, Texas, and the attempted Christmas Day
bombing of a Northwest Airlines jet.

The number of US special operations teams in Afghanistan has also
doubled since the Petraeus directive, senior officials have said.
Such teams are now believed to account for more than half of all
combat operations in the Afghan war zone.

Sending special forces into Iran would be controversial but one of
the missions of US Special Operations Command, headed by Admiral
Eric Olson, is to conduct reconnaissance in any country deemed to
pose a threat. A Pentagon spokesman acknowledged to The Times that
individual commanders have authority to conduct intelligence
operations as they see fit.

General Petraeus is a member of the Pentagon high command whose
tasks include drawing up plans to destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

Such plans "are always going to be under serious consideration,"
Anthony Cordesman, of the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies, said, "because you are dealing with a serious threat".

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