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Is the US behind the Death Squads?

Adam Johannes | 13.06.2006 16:18 | Anti-militarism | Repression

IRAQ: IS THE US BEHIND THE DEATH SQUADS?
What the mainstream media refuses to report . . .

Crying Wolf: Who is Behind the Death Squads in Iraq?
at  http://www.cryingwolf.deconstructingiraq.org.uk/

A Public Meeting hosted by
CARDIFF STOP THE WAR COALITION

Speaker - Max Fuller,

Investigative writer and author of two highly acclaimed articles that expose direct US involvement in the training and funding of death squads in Iraq.
Max Fuller is an activist in the Colombia Solidarity Campaign, a member of the advisory committee of the Brussels Tribunal (www.brusselstribunal.org), and a human rights activist.

Monday 26 June at 7 pm
Beverton Lecture Theatre
Main Building
(Opposite Student Union)
Cardiff University
Park Place

John Pilger:

'According to the investigative writer Max Fuller (National Review online), the key CIA manager of the Interior Ministry death squads "cut his teeth in Vietnam before moving on to direct the U.S. military mission in El Salvador." . . . Another, says Fuller, is well-known for his "production of death lists." A secret militia run by the Americans is the Facilities Protection Service, which has been responsible for bombings. "The British and U.S. Special Forces," concludes Fuller, "in conjunction with the [U.S.-created] intelligence services at the Iraqi Defense Ministry, are fabricating insurgent bombings of Shias.'

Mike Whitney, US anti-war movement:

'Fuller sweeps away the illusions created by the war on terror. With laser-like intensity he focuses attention on the most expansive clandestine Intel-operation of all time; the terrorizing of an entire nation, pushing it inexorably towards civil war. The Interior Ministry is the epicenter of Iraq’s violent malaise. It is the headquarters for the Badr and Wolf Brigades; the American-trained death squads which are responsible for the massive assassination program directed at “alleged” Sunni resistance fighters. The torture chambers, death squads, and random bombings are not caused by foreign terrorists, nor are they the work of Iranian agents striving for a theocratic regime in Baghdad. They are, in fact, the nefarious activities of American puppet-masters, who matriculated in the terror wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Now, under Uncle Sam’s benign gaze, they are plying their trade in Iraq; wreaking havoc and spreading suffering on an unimaginable scale.'

Adam Johannes
- e-mail: cardiff_troopsout@hotmail.com

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All war is death squads- why on Earth have we forgotten this

13.06.2006 18:53

WHO EVER GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT WAR WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A WICKED IMMORAL BUSINESS?

I hope you give a little thought to that first statement. Let me illustrate my point. One of the pythons (excuse me for not googling) did a history series recently on medieval history. At some point (the program was funny rather than serious) a witty reference is made to a siege that ends with the soldiers raping all the females of the town. Now don't get me wrong, I'm as likely to disassociate from the human suffering represented by such distant events as most, and laugh with the funny cartoon, but their is a point here...

Once upon a time people had an honest understanding of war. War was legal RAPE. War was legal PILLAGE. War was legal honest-to-goodness racism, killing the other guy, his family, and his city, because he had the wrong 'race' or 'language' or 'religion'.

GUESS WHAT? WAR HASN'T CHANGED ONE IOTA, BUT PEOPLE HAVE BECOME MORONS, EASILY BRAINWASHED INTO THE PRETENCE THAT WAR IS SOME KIND OF EXTENSION OF CIVILIAN JUSTICE.

Remember that thing called slavery? Lots of smaller wars were fought to maintain a supply of slaves. No slavery today so we must be morally improved, eh? WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. We dropped slavery because the evolution of OUR civilisation rendered it inefficient, or actually counter-productive, so we depreciated the idea, and then made a virtue of a necessity. You must give this fact the consideration it deserves. WE DID NOT END SLAVERY, THE MOST VILE OF ALL CRIMES, FOR ANY MORAL REASON. We ended slavery as an act of economic warfare against our enemies. Those civilisations that used human slavery as much for sexual reasons as for reasons of cheap labour (middle east etc) kept their slaves longer than the West, but were forced to give them up as their integration with the Western empire became too important (slavery only formally ended in Saudi in 1962).

My point? There is NO MORAL BASIS when it comes to the activities of governments acting against non-citizens. When governments war, the end ALWAYS justifies the means. Of course, if you are not the BIGGEST bully, you will be judged by the other bullies, and this acts to moderate the options that may be seen as productive in the short, medium, or long term.

Back in the days of slavery, mass rape, etc, it was hard for anyone to deny or misunderstand the nature of war. If you didn't mass rape a town that fell to your soldiers, it was ONLY because you feared a worse consequence in the future. If your victory proved your dominance over your enemies, mass rape was the least of the worries of the newly defeated.

Today, war is not better than at times past, but vastly worse. Distance no longer protects a people against planetary bullies. Self-defense becomes a total joke when your enemy spends more on its military than the rest of the planet combined. The hope that the love that ordinary people have of peacetime will counter the use of war dies when the warlords have complete control of the MASS MEDIA, and can thus attack the population of planet Earth daily with their pro-war propaganda messages.

The US butchers a bunch of civilians in Iraq in circumstances that cannot be hidden. The defense says that the marines responsible are guilty of no crime because they were following 'rules of engagement' and he is dead right. That is what war is. You have worked hard all your life, raised a family, and respected your neigbours. Now uniformed thugs worse than any criminals in your country's prisons smash into your home, rape your kids and wife, and then execute each and every one of you, all the while calling you names, and laughing about how this act will make them heros back home. This is war. This is war before humans recorded their history. This is war during every century of recorded history, and this is war today.

WAR IS A MAN GIVEN PERMISSION BY POWERFUL HUMANS TO RAPE, TORTURE AND KILL IN THE NAME OF AN ELITE. Anyone who has read my posts will have noticed that I have ZERO interest in arguing the toss. Such an act suggests that Blair's wars could be acceptable with some adjustment. This very thought is more evil than Blair himself. It is sometimes pointed out that it is idiotic that a murderer gets a harsher sentence for stabbing 20 times rather than 2, or for dismembering the body afterwards. If you cannot understand this, you have no chance of defeating or stopping Blair.

The US has always engaged in the most full-blooded and vicious forms of warfare. For them, embracing the racist implications of waging war against another people liberates the true spirit of the US. Of course, have sated themselves with the blood of others, the US loves to enjoy the full economic benefit of managing the aftermath. Blood and the dollar are 'siamese-twins'.

In Iraq, the US has put the Kurds, Iranians, non-Iran shia and sunni collaborators into power. All these groups hate each other to lesser or greater degree, which is the whole point. Sectarian violence is easily maximised. Iraq is kept as a live fire training ground for US troops, so that, with rotation, almost every member of the US armed forces (including reserves) becomes a combat veteran.

IN A TIME OF WAR, A COMBAT VETERAN IS WORTH DOZENS OF SOLDIERS WITHOUT COMBAT EXPERIENCE.

Blair wants peace in Iraq? Bit like saying a child rapist only wanted to ensure a decent childhood for his victim. Now why has Blair helped create the circumstances in Iraq that has made almost every US soldier a combat veteran?

A COMBAT VETERAN IS A HUMAN THAT HAS BROKEN THROUGH THE BARRIERS THAT NORMALLY PREVENT US FROM ignoring MORAL CODES THAT COME NOT FROM GOVERNMENT OR ORGANISED RELIGION, BUT FROM OUR OWN EXPERIENCES OF LIVING WITH OTHERS IN A DECENT AND PEACEFUL WAY.

War is child-rape, child-torture, child-murder. But you won't have a war unless you can find people willing to murder and main families enjoying themselves on the beach. Every Israel is trained in the art of racist murder by the law of that so-called nation, and the purpose of such training reaches its culmination when the butchers in the attack helicopter watch through the clearest of advanced optics until the doctors have arrived to treat the victims of their latest attack in Gaza, and then launch more missiles to murder those doctors, and the little kids that stand near them.

WAR IS THE DISTILLATION OF PUREST EVIL FROM THE POWER ACCUMULATED BY THOSE THAT PLACE THEMSELVES IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP OVER US.

What does it mean when Blair can have his media trumpet the mass murder of Afghan villagers by uniformed UK butchers, and then demand the nation weep when one of these racist psychopaths is killed during his crime spree.

We can all imagine foreign uniformed bastards storming into OUR villages, towns and cities, abusing us in ways beyond sane imagination, and informing those of us still standing that if we even DREAM of justice, they will make each and every one of us envy those that have already been murdered. We CAN imagine it, but at times such as these most don't. Empathy dies, with the assistance of every racist bastard that comment in the Mass Media on behalf of war.

(As I type this, a uniformed thug on channel four is smirkingly describing how correct it was to nazi storm the home of the muslim brothers- he clearly stated that any excuse can be used to attack muslims- in other words the same Israelis that butchered the families on the Gaza beach can, at any time, phone the UK police with any made up garbage against ANY muslim, and the UK police PROMISE that they will attack that person with maximum force. Channel 4 news is STATING that the brothers lied at the press conference, and that so long as the accusation against a muslim is great enough, any action is justified. Channel 4 has now formally backed the position of Adolf Hitler, who said that he was entitled to put jews and others in death camps, because the potential threat they were said to reporesent was so great, and that the greater the threat, the less you can worry about evidence, until you reach a point where a great enough threat requires no evidence whatsoever in order to trigger the most extreme reaction.)

ITN produces Channel 4 news, and no propaganda organisation on TV does more to justify and enable the racist mass murder of humans by Blair. Meanwhile, after endless atrocities by Israel, Blair is to be found actively cheering Israeli crimes against humanity today.

1) Israel butchers doctors, kids and beach-goers in Gaza, and Blair states that Israel has his full support and that Blair will do everything possible in his command to ensure Israel can continue to mass murder non-tribe humans with no penalty or punishment.
2) Blair states that any warning about a muslim, no matter how ludicrous, is just cause for most murderous action against that individual.
3) Israel arrests and promises maximum punishment for the 'arabs' that protected themselves against the jewish gunman last August that entered a bus full of 'arabs' and mass murdered them in a racist terrorist orgy.

DO YOU NOTICE A PATTERN HERE? Hitler said all jews were criminals, and that any act against them could always be justified. Blair states that all muslims are criminals, and that any act against them can always be justified. Both statements are true, but the defenders of Hitler and Blair use the same tactics. Namely, only EVER listen to the official spokespeople of Hitler and Blair, and NEVER pay attention to the words of their victims. Never let the facts speak for themselves.

Death squads? In this world, every action by forces controlled by the UK, US and Israel is the action of a death squad, even on those occasions when it doesn't actually suit them to murder. Max Fuller argues for a 'clean' AGGRESSIVE WAR and has thus lost before he even starts. It's like asking for a 'clean' rape or a 'clean' act of child-abuse. Only by accepting the full extent of Blair's evil can there be any possibility of stopping him. Every single aspect of Blair's invasion of Iraq is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. Criminals are supposed to be stopped, arrested, and punished. What is this lunacy that we make an exception if the criminal has murdered as many people as Blair?

THERE WILL BE NO STOPPING ***ANY*** WARS UNTIL WE HAVE STOPPED THE WAR-MONGER BLAIR. One might think that Blair's supposed enemies would assume that this was easy, given that Blair was elected by only 20% of potential voters, and has been rapidly sinking since (in that one area that doesn't make a difference).

twilight


Actually the 'Iraqi' death squads are Iraqis!

14.06.2006 05:27

They are not UK/US, the lack of security allows such groups to flourish and pursue thier sectarian agendas, like in Bosnia. Look at history Shia/Sunni conflicts have gone on for about 1400years, or was Imam Ali murdered on the orders of MI6?

Arthur


Twilight, you are talking utter bollocks as usual.

14.06.2006 15:28

"Blair states that all muslims are criminals, and that any act against them can always be justified"
Time, date and location of this statement, please.
I'm sure you'll find the original Hitler statement somewhere in your well-thumbed copy of Mein Kampf.

Götterdämmerung


Read The NY'er

14.06.2006 18:36

Seymour Hersh and the New Yorker have written some excellent investigative pieces about the Iraqi wealth - the BILLIONS looted by the foreign Aggressor - which is being used to fund these Death Squads, bribe the new "Government", and conduct illegal Covert Operations into Iran and Syria.

Yes, US Has Funded Death Squads All Over The World


Yep Low intensity warfare, they love it ..

15.06.2006 13:53

It's standard practise for the war mongers, I was in Nicaragua during the Sandinista's brief riegn I blagged my
way onto a flight over blue fields with an american forestry expert we went off to check on some forest fires and damage from a hurricane. While we were up there we came across the bodies of a medical Nicaraguan medical team who had been murdered by the american sponsored mercenaries known as the contra's.
The Sandinista government had promised to do eye tests on the whole population, pretty hard work when the doctors and other government offiicials were the prime target of a blod thirsty bunch of outlaw killers.
But that is exactly what low intensity warefare consists of the contras bumped off mayors and council official,
school teachers and doctors, they raped and pillaged and terrorised rural population and they won the Sandinista were defeated one way or another.
I can't remember where I was, somewhere in central america but I can remember the piece of yankkkee shit real well, he was saying that the Sandinista had promised to do eye tests on 100% of the rural popualtion
and they just had not delivered, I was close to chucking something at the TV screen and going berserk but after spending time in San Salvador, Honduras, Lebanon and other places where american foreign policy has
cauused untold suffering I have learnt to control my temper but not my hate for Americaca.
(that is not to say I hate all americans britain and the facist states of europe not far behind with Israel always present in the top three shits of the money laundering masonic world)

Nica


Nica are u mates with Twilight?

15.06.2006 14:13

Or just co-residents in the same psychiatric ward? None of that made sense!

Arthur


not making sense making money

15.06.2006 22:27

amerikkkicaca's foreign policies is not s'posed to make sense, it is supposed to make a bundle of cash
for the elite .. would you like to hear about the time I went to check out on the worlds biggest coke dealer (at the time) yeah plane loads of the stuff flying into Costa Rica .. arms for every one ..
what kinda sense are we dealing with here ? if your not into money laundering these days there's no sense innit !

Tico


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