U.S. 'Secret War' Expands Globally as Special Operations Forces Take Larger Role http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/04-2

...[T]he Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials...Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed in 75 countries...In addition to units that have spent years in the Philippines and Colombia, teams are operating in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.