U.S. Counter-Insurgency School Targeted (WHISC or SOA)

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An older story .... still interesting.

U.S. Counter-Insurgency School Targeted By Watchdog Group

LONDON, Oct 31 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The United States has been running a "terrorist training camp" for the last 55 years, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly at al-Qaeda's door, The Guardian newspaper said Tuesday.

Guardian writer, George Monbiot, spoke about the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formed in 1946 and based in Fort Benning, Georgia.

It was formally known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), whose graduates include 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Many of them have been accused of torturing and terrorizing civilians in several Latin American countries, Monbiot explained in his article.

"Among its graduates are many of the continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch show, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni," said Monbiot.

In June of this year, Colonel Byron Lima Estrada, once a student at the school, was convicted in Guatemala City of murdering Bishop Juan Gerardi in 1998....>> MORE

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2001-11/01/article3.shtml