U.S. Considers Elite Hit-Squads for Iraq -Report

[neomonkey]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Pentagon is debating whether to set up elite hit-squads to target leaders of the Iraq insurgency in a new strategy based on tactics used against leftist guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday.
One proposal would send U.S. Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads of hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, Newsweek said, citing military insiders familiar with the discussions.

The squads may operate across the border in Syria, Newsweek said on its web site, but added it was unclear whether they would assassinate leaders or be involved in "snatch" operations


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7272484&src=rss/topNews

[democracyindanger]

1. And Negroponte just happens to be in Iraq

Fucking death squads. Jesus.

[Ilsa]

5. Great point. And well said.

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Send this to Mike Malloy at AAR if you want to get someone really riled up about this.

Tonight the last words running through my brain will likely be "Fucking death squads."

[JohnOneillsMemory]

23. Ronald Reagan isn't fucking dead enough. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

40. So what does "Negroponte" mean? Bridge to darkness?

Too bad Major Bob's dead; I'm sure he'd have some pointers...

[Ilsa]

2. Hmmm. Well. How long before the Pentagoon realizes they are

training the assassins of their own troops? How many terrorist infiltrators were there in the Iraqi National Guard/Police? Granted, I don't know much about the military, but why isn't this a possible outcome?

[Webster Green]

3. Negroponte setting up his death squads again?

Saw this coming didn't we?

These motherfuckers are beyond despicable.

[neomonkey]

6. El Salvador, back by "popular" demand

The names haven't changed much, and neither has the madness.

[Webster Green]

9. I hope Negroponte gets his ass handed to him in a shoebox.....

That fucking war criminal should have been locked up a long time ago, with Kissinger and Ollie North and Ronald Reagan and on and on and on............

[calimary]

35. Unfortunately, that will never happen as long as a republi-CON can

"win" the White House. Presidential pardon prerogative, dontcha know?

[Webster Green]

41. I was referring to literally, not figuratively! (n/t)

[NYC]

10. Deja vu.

How very sad.

[artemisia1]

4. Dumb.

What an excellent way to start a civil war in Iraq - play one ethnic group against another. The people running this war are so damn incompetent it's scary.

[asjr]

12. I know more about waging war than Rumsfeld and I know diddely

squat. And they are using our tax dollars to do it. They will cut the money for social programs that are needed and pour more of it into an illegal war. The Dems in Congress had better get it together and pound some sense in them if need be. I would love to see a good physical fight there.

[anakie]

17. and blame the cost cuts

not on the war but on all that money in aid that was sent to South Asia.

[pinniped]

7. Who the hell gave these US paid killers permission to operate in Syria?

They better make sure they don't get caught or they might face a sharp sword in the town plaza.

Wait a minute, I bet these 'death squads' are already in place and have been operating since the beginning.

What about those 'private jails' in Afghanistan? I bet those dudes were told to operate them by Rummy the Dummy and they got hung out to dry when busted.

[slor]

8. Damn these fools...

I believe they want civil war, so they can stay. Screw the people of Iraq, screw the soldiers, stay for the oil. Of course, it will not be possible to get the oil, but they do not dare to think about that part.

[ScrewyRabbit]

11. Freedom is on the march!

[Barrett808]

13. We've brought Grozny to Fallujah -- which village gets to be El Mozote?

[artemisia1]

18. All of them... n/t

[0007]

14. Did I hear junior calling?

I'm ready boss, am ready

[Bo]

15. negroponte out of honduras

doing a little smugglin on the side as well

[bemildred]

16. "Elite Hit-Squad" is an oxymoron. nt

[JohnOneillsMemory]

24. As opposed to the National Guard 'populist' death-squads.

They just don't have the motivation for empire that the White House wants on their team.

[Lisa]

19. wow. how ironic ...

Bush's own "assassins".

(see -- history of the Crusades ... do you think they'll bother with the hashish this time, or just give them cold hard cash?)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

20. gee, i wonder how the sunnis will respond?

i think we'll find out soon.

[JoFerret]

21. Assassins

.

[Larkspur]

22. Didn't we try this in Vietnam?

Wasn't that what the Phoenix program was about? :shrug:

[Renew Deal]

25. I guess the Republican Guard is coming back.

[mike_c]

26. so now we're in the death squad business....

Maybe the SOA/WHINSEC can open a branch campus in Kuwait....

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

28. The CIA's been in the death squad business for decades

Now it seems no big deal ?

Telling the press these "elite" death squads will perform covert ops in neighboring countries?

"snatch" operations? assasinations?

isn't this against international law?

and they're making no secret of it?

[mike_c]

31. I know-- it was a rhetorical question....

But as you note, the openness of the announcement is chilling. The pig bastards are giving up all pretense of decency.

[NNN0LHI]

27. I think Sammy the Bull Gravano is available n/t

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

29. chimp fantasizes putting on his bunny suit and joining up too

Ahhh, to be a superhero !

[Journeyman]

30. Phoenix . . . resurrected. . .

n/t possible

[Robbien]

32. Whose to say the hit-squads haven't already been operating there

There have been too many suspicious deaths and car bombings whose only intent appeared to be civil unrest.

[buddysmellgood]

33. Hmmm. Sending Republican elitests into battle sounds pretty good.

How about Rush?

[ninkasi]

34. Let's see...

death squads, snatches, torture...yeah, we're really setting a good example of a democracy, and bringing civilization to the heathen Muslims, aren't we? Extreme sarcasm.

[Rose Siding]

36. Here's the Newsweek article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1134088&mesg_id=1134088&page=

[NNN0LHI]

37. Isn't Elite Hit-Squads just a fancy word for terrorists? n/t

[Darranar]

39. No. They're only terrorists when they fight against the US. n/t

[Darranar]

38. The "El Salvador Solution" comes into play...

murder a path to "democracy"....

[Moderator]

42. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1134088&mesg_id=1134088&page=