The Joint Prioritized Effects List or JPEL is a list of individuals who
coalition forces in Afghanistan try to capture or kill. The
Task Force 373 is working through the list. According to the
Afghan War Diary German troops listed Shirin Agha with the number 3145 and on 11 October 2010 German troops killed Agha. Coalition forces are authorized to kill or capture individuals named on the list.
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According to a document from the 2010
Afghan War Diary the list has 2,058 names. That list provided the intelligence basis for a pace of some 90
night-raids per month in late 2009.
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'' reported that the Joint Special Operations Command
The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is a joint component command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and is charged with studying special operations requirements and techniques to ensure interoperability and equip ...
(JSOC) was executing targets on the Joint Prioritized Effects List. John Nagl
John Albert Nagl (born February 28, 1966) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. He is a former president of the Center for a New American Security and former headmaster of The Haverford School. Nagl is an expert in counterins ...
, a former counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus
David Howell Petraeus (; born November 7, 1952) is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 6, 2011, until his resignation on November 9, 2012. Prior to h ...
, described JSOC's kill/capture campaign to ''Frontline'' as "an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine."[{{cite news
, url= http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html, title= Obama's Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan, publisher= ]Der Spiegel
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, date= 2014-12-30, accessdate = 2014-12-30, archivedate = 2014-12-28, archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141228203416/http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html
, url-status = live Since October 2008 the NATO defense ministers decided that drug networks would now be "legitimate targets" for ISAF
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troops. The United Nations estimated that the Taliban was earning US$300 million a year through the drug trade, and according to a leaked NSA document "the insurgents could not be defeated without disrupting the drug trade."[ In the opinion of American military commanders such as ]Bantz John Craddock
Bantz John Craddock (born August 24, 1949) is a former United States Army General (United States), general. His last military assignment was as Commander, United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Supreme ...
, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe at the time, there was no need to prove that drug money was actually being funneled to the Taliban to declare Afghan couriers, farmers, and dealers as legitimate targets of NATO strikes.[ In early-2009 Craddock issued an order to expand the JPEL list to include drug producers, but such targets had to be investigated as individual cases after a complaint by the German NATO General ]Egon Ramms
Egon Ramms (born September 21, 1948 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a retired German general who held numerous international commands. Ramms is a father of two.
His last assignment was commander of NATO's Joint Force Command in Brunss ...
that the order is "illegal" and a violation of international law
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References
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)