'The Obama administration has created a new extra-legal system known as the "disposition matrix" to institutionalize the selection and targeting of enemies of the US state for assassination, according to an article published Wednesday in the Washington Post.

The Post reports that the system is "designed to go beyond existing kill lists," creating a centralized data base that contains "the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations."

The data base joins "biographies, locations, known associates and affiliated organizations" with "strategies for taking targets down." While the article includes among these strategies "extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols," the reality is that overwhelming preference has been given to assassination by drone strikes.'

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