| Iraqi insurgents are killing Iraqi police and police recruits systematically, regularly and in large numbers. Iraq has ALREADY spiraled into civil war. |
| [A] Newsweek report by John Barry and Michael Hirsh confirms a sense of foreboding that history is being repeated. They learned of a Pentagon proposal that "would send [U.S. Army] Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers." Decades ago, that is exactly how the Salvadoran death squads began, when Special Forces and C.I.A. personnel were sent to train paramilitary forces there.
Source: "Death squads invite murder in our name" by Joe Conason - The New York Observer - 01.12.05 [L]ast month [August 2004], anti-U.S. attacks climbed to 87 per day, more than double the rate in 2003. The U.S. death toll since sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June 28 [2004] has eclipsed the number killed in the invasion, and the total tally just passed 1,000. The wounded number more than 7,000…[T]he will of the rebels shows few signs of cracking. Source: "Mission Still Not Accomplished" by Johanna McGeary - Time Magazine 9/20/04 |
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