The authorization for the Iraqi death squads came straight from the Oval Office

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm

"Riding with the Bad Boys"

The rise of Iraqi death squads

By Mike Whitney

11/30/05 "ICH" - --- The New York Times confirmed today that the "Iraqi (security) forces are carrying out executions in predominantly Sunnis neighborhoods." Hundreds of men have been taken from taken from their homes by men in Iraqi uniforms and either "found dead in ditches or fields, with bullet holes to their temples, acid burns to their skin, and holes in their bodies apparently made by electrical drills. Many have simply vanished". (Dexter Filkins, "Sunnis accuse Iraqi Military of Kidnappings and Slayings" NY Times)

The Times merely reiterates what has been echoing through internet for some time now, that the Iraqi Interior Ministry is using lethal force to undercut the Sunni-led resistance and terrorize the public. The plan was first uncovered in an article by Seymour Hersh in January 2005. Hersh reported that the Pentagon was intending to trigger "The Salvador Option"; a strategy which involves the training of "death squads" to execute a bloody secret war against "alleged" insurgents.

"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?" one official asked Hersh. "We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want."

Then he added ominously, "We’re going to be riding with the bad boys."

The authorization for the death squads comes straight from the Oval Office. According to Chris Floyd, "Through a series of secret executive orders, George W. Bush has given Rumsfeld the authority to turn the entire world into a 'global free-fire zone’’. (Chris Floyd, Darkness Visible: The Pentagon plan to foment terrorism is now in Operation)

Floyd’s observations are consistent with what we already know of Rumsfeld’s involvement in overseeing the development of the Iraqi security apparatus. Following the presidential elections in Iraq, Rumsfeld paid a surprise visit on the newly-appointed al-Jaafari to discourage any changes in the Interior Ministry where American agents were training Iraqi goons in the fine art of torture and assassination.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/22/235425/978

WP Reveals Rumsfeld's Private Death Squads

by pontificator
Sat Jan 22, 2005 at 08:54:25 PM PDT

A new Washington Post story confirms that Rumsfeld has set up a new paramilitary intelligence operation inside the Department of Defense:

pontificator's diary :: ::

The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad, according to interviews with participants and documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic Support Branch, arose from Rumsfeld's written order to end his "near total dependence on CIA" for what is known as human intelligence. Designed to operate without detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, the Strategic Support Branch deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, interrogators and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations forces.

Rumsfeld's lawyers have decided that this new "Strategic Support Branch" can operate with virtually no Congressional oversight:

[thecrow]

1. Hmmm and when was it that Rumsferatu "stepped down"?

I think he just went off the record so he could oversee this.

What has our country become?

[bluesmail]

4. I agree, Rumsfeld is still calling the 'shots'

barbarianism, his fingerprints are still all over the Iraqi massacres, and now here comes the pre-planned Iran War, gawd help us all, I believe I've lost my once sane mind, and will never get it back.

[xxqqqzme]

2. wasn't this also around the time negroponte spent

about 4 months in Iraq as an 'ambassador' or whatever euphemistic title he was hiding behind this time.

ah HA - '...After leaving the Foreign Service, he subsequently served in the Bush Administration as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004, and was ambassador to Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005...' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

OK - 10 months - just long enough to get the apparatus for recruitment in motion. He had done it before, so he had ready to use blueprints.

[bullimiami]

3. NEGROPONTE. History repeats itself.

[malaise]

5. Ding ding

We have a winner!

[L. Coyote]

6. Plan Condor, except global.

When will they learn?

George Bush Sr. May Face Charges: Conspiring to Kidnap and Murder Political Activists
Junta Day, 2007: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2459135

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7. ...

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. This would also make it easier to kill truth-telling reporters

which have had a particularly high "hit" rate in this war. Also, the whole illegal flow of US weapons into other hands there makes perfect sense. Wasn't just carelessness or a quick profit.