Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say

[Clara T]

Posted on Sun, Mar. 12, 2006
Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say
By Matthew Schofield
Knight Ridder Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Senior Iraqi officials Sunday confirmed for the first time that death squads composed of government employees had operated illegally from inside two government ministries. "The deaths squads that we have captured are in the defense and interior ministries," Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said during a joint news conference with the Minister of Defense. "There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior."

Also, Sunday, a series of deadly attacks hit the Shiite Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, which had recently been relatively safe, initiating another round of sectarian killings and threatening to provoke more.

Seven car bombs were left in markets around the poor Shiite area. Two exploded at 5:30 p.m., another at 5:35 p.m., two at 5:40 p.m. in a different market, and one at 5:45 p.m. Police found and defused the seventh.

The blasts, set off at the busiest time of the day just after poor residents would have returned from their jobs, yet before curfew, killed 46 people and wounded another 204. By Sunday night, the suburb of 2.5 million had been sealed off by police and the private militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the Mahdi Army.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. Alright...PROGRESS!

:sarcasm:

[951-Riverside]

2. Ah Had they only filled out the proper paper work....

Senior Iraqi officials Sunday confirmed for the first time that death squads composed of government employees had operated illegally from inside two government ministries

[damntexdem]

3. Oh, well maybe the Bush plan IS working in Iraq, after all:

a semi-stable government with its own death squads. All it lacks is Sadaam -- well, maybe, if he can put this messy trial thing behind him. ;-)

[tom_paine]

4. Of course they did...as obvious as SS running Concentration Camps

Negroponte did his job. He was and is Ambassador of Death Squads, after all.

[stop the bleeding]

5. talk about in the last throes

Seven car bombs were left in markets around the poor Shiite area. Two exploded at 5:30 p.m., another at 5:35 p.m., two at 5:40 p.m. in a different market, and one at 5:45 p.m. Police found and defused the seventh.

[banana republican]

6. negroponte must be working overtime.

[mom cat]

10. He was and is and forever shall be as long as there is breath in him.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek
Their coverage of the "Salvadoran Option".

[file83]

7. Gee, I wonder what country is training these "Death Squads".

[cantstandbush]

8. Worse than Saddam. n/t

[ContraBass Black]

9. Is this about the men in black with new cars and guns?

Isn't this lovely.

[gratuitous]

11. The ham-fisted fingerprints of John Negroponte surface again

A worthy successor to the Butcher of Baghdad. The people of Iraq may look back wistfully to the reign of Saddam Hussein with Negroponte at the helm.

[Tempest]

14. The Salvadorian Option

Looks like it wasn't just being considered in Iraq.

[rman]

12. And Iraqi govt = US puppet govt

just saying..

[sojourner]

13. oh what a surprise (NOT)! link - "the salvadorean option"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1433353,00.html

[KansDem]

15. Any Westerners disguised as Iraqis?

There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior.

Makes one think "Hmmmmm....."