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Anza kusoma hii hapa chini.
With the 2004 electoral clock ticking amid growing public concern about U.S. casualties and chaos in Iraq, the Bush administrations hawks are upping the ante militarily. To those familiar with the CIAs Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, Latin Americas death squads or Israels official policy of targeted murders of Palestinian activists, the results are likely to look chillingly familiar.
The Prospect has learned that part of a secret $3 billion in new fundstucked away in the $87 billion Iraq appropriation that Congress approved in early Novemberwill go toward the creation of a paramilitary unit manned by militiamen associated with former Iraqi exile groups. Experts say it could lead to a wave of extrajudicial killings, not only of armed rebels but of nationalists, other opponents of the U.S. occupation and thousands of civilian Baathists (emphasis added)up to 120,000 of the estimated 2.5 million former Baath Party members in Iraq.
Theyre clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam, says Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counter terrorism. Ironically, he says, the U.S. forces in Iraq are working with key members of Saddam Husseins now-defunct intelligence agency to set the program in motion. Theyre setting up little teams of Seals and Special Forces with teams of Iraqis, working with people who were former senior Iraqi intelligence people, to do these things, Cannistraro says."
Phoenix Rising January 1, 2004
Anza kusoma hii hapa chini.
With the 2004 electoral clock ticking amid growing public concern about U.S. casualties and chaos in Iraq, the Bush administrations hawks are upping the ante militarily. To those familiar with the CIAs Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, Latin Americas death squads or Israels official policy of targeted murders of Palestinian activists, the results are likely to look chillingly familiar.
The Prospect has learned that part of a secret $3 billion in new fundstucked away in the $87 billion Iraq appropriation that Congress approved in early Novemberwill go toward the creation of a paramilitary unit manned by militiamen associated with former Iraqi exile groups. Experts say it could lead to a wave of extrajudicial killings, not only of armed rebels but of nationalists, other opponents of the U.S. occupation and thousands of civilian Baathists (emphasis added)up to 120,000 of the estimated 2.5 million former Baath Party members in Iraq.
Theyre clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam, says Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counter terrorism. Ironically, he says, the U.S. forces in Iraq are working with key members of Saddam Husseins now-defunct intelligence agency to set the program in motion. Theyre setting up little teams of Seals and Special Forces with teams of Iraqis, working with people who were former senior Iraqi intelligence people, to do these things, Cannistraro says."
Phoenix Rising January 1, 2004
