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Negroponte getting back Into Death Squad Business in Iraq?

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Sunday January 09, 2005 12:47author by sandinista Report this post to the editors

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"Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration's battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success--despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal."

More at Link.

Related Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/21595/02169
author by redjadepublication date Sun Jan 09, 2005 14:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

an earlier post in 'other press'....

US Designs a Civil War for Iraq
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68069

''For example, during the assault on Fallujah, wary of the reliability of Iraqi forces, the Marines used 2,000 Kurdish Peshmerga militia troops against the Arab Sunnis. The two groups share a long history of mistrust and animosity, according to Marr.

Both ethnic groups are Sunni, but Kurds speak a different language, have distinct customs, and are not Arabs.''

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The pentagon planners are designing a 'civil war' - divide and conquer. As in any fight, someone needs to play the role of the referee.

Thus, Iraqis will 'need' the US to 'save' Iraq from Iraqis and the 'international community' will applaude.

Question: what do people think the Kurds are getting out of this dirty deal? Its a serious question, i can't even speculate.

author by eeekkkkpublication date Mon Jan 10, 2005 19:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"With the war draining the military of the troops needed for commitments worldwide, the Pentagon is being forced to take extraordinary steps to maintain adequate troop strength. A temporary increase of 30,000 soldiers for the Army, already approved by Congress, will most likely be made permanent. The Pentagon is also considering plans to further change the rules about mobilizing members of the National Guard and Reserve. Right now they cannot be called up for more than 24 months of active service. That limit would be scrapped, which would permit the Army to call them up as frequently as required.

That's not a back-door draft. It's a brutal, in-your-face draft that's unfairly limited to a small segment of the population. It would make a mockery of the idea of an all-volunteer Army."

Related Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/opinion/10herbert.html?oref=login&hp=&pagewanted=print&position=
author by .publication date Mon Jan 10, 2005 20:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Since the occupation began, some 200 leading Iraqi academics, most of them in the humanities and social sciences, have been killed. Is the CIA responsible?"

By Andrew Rubin

Related Link: http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060018
author by The Devil and George Warmonger Bush - The Black House Bulliespublication date Mon Jan 10, 2005 21:54author address 666 The Tenth Level of Hell Suite 666author phone 666-666-Hell Ext. 666Report this post to the editors

So what do you think Negroponte and his Iran-Contra Henchmen were sent to Iraq for???? To get a Sun Tan???? Iran-Contra figures like Neroponte are sent there set up Military Juntas throughout the Middle East that are subserviant to US Interest in the region.

author by redjadepublication date Sun Jan 16, 2005 20:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

When, in the course of my Monday commentary, I mentioned Major General Muhammad Abdallah al-Shahwani, director of Iraq’s National Intelligence Service, I had a sneaking suspicion that I couldn't confirm at the time. Now, thanks to a reader in Britain, some confirmation.

According to Sami Ramadani, an antiwar Iraqi exile who writes regularly for the Guardian, "Shahwani was one of Saddam's intelligence chiefs in Baghdad with a reputation for brutality."

Unfortunately, this is not surprising. For some time now, the United States has been relying heavily on the remnants of Saddam's intelligence services, both to provide them with information and more recently (especially since April) in direct and open supporting roles.

Related Link: http://www.empirenotes.org/january05.html#12jan051
 
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