The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq

[tjwash]

Now that al-Zarqawi has been replaced by "sectarian violence" and "civil war", the big news is the attacks by Sunnis on Shia mosques and bazaars. The real news, which is not reported in the CNN "mainstream", is that the Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq. This is the campaign of terror by death squads armed and trained by the US, which attack Sunnis and Shias alike. The goal is the incitement of a real civil war and the break-up of Iraq, the original war aim of Bush's administration. The ministry of the interior in Baghdad, which is run by the CIA, directs the principal death squads. Their members are not exclusively Shia, as the myth goes. The most brutal are the Sunni-led Special Police Commandos, headed by former senior officers in Saddam's Ba'ath Party. This unit was formed and trained by CIA "counter-insurgency" experts, including veterans of the CIA's terror operations in central America in the 1980s, notably El Salvador. In his new book, Empire's Workshop (Metropolitan Books), the American historian Greg Grandin describes the Salvador Option thus: "Once in office, Reagan came down hard on central America, in effect letting his administration's most committed militarists set and execute policy. In El Salvador, they provided more than a million dollars a day to fund a lethal counter-insurgency campaign . . . All told, US allies in central America during Reagan's two terms killed over 300,000 people, tortured hundreds of thousands and drove millions into exile."

Full article at information clearing house.

[EFerrari]

1. That's right. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz made the same observation

-- that lessons learned in Central America have been exported to Iraq -- in her last book:

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Most of the same people doing the dirt in South America were in

or are still in Iraq...

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[rkc3]

3. Negroponte is one of those key players.

He's had 20 years to figure out how to perfect what was done in Central America.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Negroponte and Boykin were doing the dirty deeds in South

America and they have both been in Iraq for months.

[oc2002]

4. it is a policy that will not work, anyway, they people in Iraq have been

killing each other for centuries, unlike El Salvador where the peasants where terrorized by death squads, Iraq has had them for a long long time.

[Jigarotta]

6. kick