[Vision2020] US Sponsored Anti-Sunni Death Squads

Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 13:21:01 PST 2006


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1938380.ece

Excerpts:

"...the death squads are the result of US policy. At the beginning of
last year, with no end to the Sunni insurgency in sight, the Pentagon
was reported to have decided to train Shia and Kurdish fighters to
carry out "irregular missions". The policy, exposed in the US media,
was called the "Salvador Option" after the American-backed
counter-insurgency in Latin America more than 20 years ago, which led
to 70,000 deaths and countless instances of human rights abuse."

And:

"...a dozen bodies were brought in with identification cards showing
that each had the name Omar. The catch here was that Omar is a Sunni
name, and this fact was enough to seal their fate at Shia
checkpoints."


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