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‘Cheney’s death squads operated in Afghanistan and Lebanon’

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Published 16 March, 2009, 18:46

Dick Cheney was in charge of an assassin ring which killed enemies of the US in Afghanistan and Lebanon, says investigative journalist Wayne Madsen.

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