Deadly Bait

CHRISTOPHER BLAKE STAFF WRITER CRB724@CABRINI EDU

A number of U.S. snipers in Iraq have been told to set “bait” to attract and then kill suspected insurgents. The program orders snipers to set an object that they feel an insurgent would use against U.S. or Iraqi troops such as ammunition or plastic explosives and then to kill whoever tries to take the object. The “baiting” program was found through court documents filed “against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they kill,” according to the Washington Post. The number of people told of the program is unknown but more individuals seem to have been aware of the “baiting” while others felt their purpose was to plant evidence on Iraqis they had killed.