Organized Retaliation-Death Squads Roaming Iraq

[kpete]

Death Squads Roaming Iraq
November 29, 2005
Death Squads Roaming Iraq
"Shiite Muslim militia members have infiltrated Iraq's police force and are carrying out sectarian killings under the color of law," the Los Angeles Times reports. "The abuses raise the specter of organized retaliation to attacks by Sunni-led insurgents that have killed thousands of Shiites, who endured decades of subjugation under Saddam Hussein."

"And they undermine the U.S. effort to stabilize the nation, and train and equip Iraq's security forces -- the Bush administration's key prerequisites for the eventual withdrawal of American troops."

The Iraq Interior Ministry's inspector general "concurs that extrajudicial killings are being carried out by ministry forces."

Of course, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT), just back from Iraq, writes in the Wall Street Journal that the conflict is much simpler: "It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern."

No mention of death squads.
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[opihimoimoi]

1. Ole Joe is misguided and missed the boat....he is irrevelent

[MidwestTransplant]

2. 10,000 huh. The pentagon claims to kill 2000 per month or

something like that. Seems this should have been ended ages ago. THey have been using the 10K figure for a long time.

[Peter Frank]

3. K & friggin' R!!!

cRummy is having a press conference right now on the cable news channels. He denied knowledge of the death squads.

[afdip]

4. great, now we've duplicated some of our best efforts in central america

and south america: guatamala, el salvador, chile & argentina have no longer got anything on iraq.

[Peter Frank]

5. The dirty little secret that cRummy & the gang are keeping is that...

...civil war has already broken out in Iraq.