Newsweek: The Salvador Option (US considers using death squads)

[iconoclastic cat]

Hey, MaryH, check this one out:

‘The Salvador Option’
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq >

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Shahwani also said that the U.S. occupation has failed to crack the problem of broad support for the insurgency. The insurgents, he said, "are mostly in the Sunni areas where the population there, almost 200,000, is sympathetic to them." He said most Iraqi people do not actively support the insurgents or provide them with material or logistical help, but at the same time they won’t turn them in. One military source involved in the Pentagon debate agrees that this is the crux of the problem, and he suggests that new offensive operations are needed that would create a fear of aiding the insurgency. "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists," he said. "From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation."

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This is in freakin' Newsweek, for crap's sake. We are all damned.


Edit: Dupe, sorry!

[bluestateguy]

1. We won't even do that to catch bin Laden

Instead we'll do it in Iraq, and all we'll do is slaughter petty criminals, 16 year old kids and people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[leesa]

5. They don't WANT to catch OBL, if he's alive. He could blow their whole

game by exposing their role in 9-11.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. They are just out to start World War III are they not !!!

How stupid do they think the Muslims are ???

:mad:

Mad men are running this country.

[Nikepallas]

3. Unfortunately it will not be much of a WW III it will be the rest of the

sane world against the insane U.S.

[njnop]

6. Salvador solution

I just read a discussion about this on a diary at dkos. Check it out

[njnop]

7. Negreponte

our "AMBASSADOR" to Iraq was involved in the death squad effort under Reagan I think I remember. This will lead to our destruction as much as any thing these thugs in the Oval Office can dream up.We are doomed if this goes forward.

[leesa]

4. Well, what the hell's the military been doing?

Giving out chocolates and flowers?? Give it up. Get the hell out.