Wikileaks Publishes US Counterinsurgency Manual?

[Joanne98]

Wikileaks has posted what it says is a manual of US counterinsurgency doctrine:

The manual, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004), may be critically described as “what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places”. Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies and guerilla movements world wide, history making.

The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of “psychological operations” (propaganda) to make these and other “population & resource control” measures more palatable.

The document has been particularly informed by the long United States involvement in the El Salvador…

I have no way of judging whether the document is legitimate, but it certainly reads like it is.

Recall that in 2005 the Defense Department decided on what it called “The Salvador Option” for Iraq, with James Steele, a veteran of counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the eighties, training Iraq’s Special Police Commandos.

http://thismodernworld.com/4358

And right after James Steele took over all those bodies started showing up.

[two gun sid]

1. Looks like the old manual

The Military updated the manual in 2007. I'm sure that there is not a helluva lot of differences in the two.

I've always believed that we would use the Salvador Option in Iraq. When you look at all the old Central America hands the Bush administration put in charge in Iraq after the invasion you just gotta believe that they would go with what they know. Negroponte, Steele, yeah, I could see those guys using the most vicious methods to try to control the insurgency. They know from experience how well terrorism works. Oops, I meant counter-terrorism.