| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
13 Mar 2006 12:00:09 PM |
| Object: |
The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Negroponte Salvadorian Option at Work. |
Interior Minister Jabr said that investigations into death squads were
still ongoing in the Defense Ministry.
He said the Interior Ministry had arrested 22 people, and subsequently
released 18 as innocent after interrogation, detaining four for
further questioning.
"Now we have sent them (the four) to the court because it hasn't been
proven that all four were involved," Jabr said.
"Although I did not have clear signs (of their guilt) I sent them to
the justice ministry so that the law could be carried out."
Although Jabr appeared to confirm the existence of death squads, the
scale of the operation uncovered would appear to be far smaller than
critics had alleged.
Sunni Muslims have long complained about Shiite death squads that
arrived wearing official uniforms and rode in official-looking
vehicles to haul away victims.
Knight Ridder first reported the accusation of death squads in
February last year, and in June documented many cases in which victims
were taken away allegedly by men wearing Interior Ministry commando
uniforms were later found handcuffed and executed with a bullet to the
back of the head.
The government had long denied the existence of such death squads.
Sunnis had accused the Badr Organization, a Shiite militia supported
by Iran, of being behind the killings, inside or outside of government
ministries.
Jabr is a senior leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution
in Iraq, a leading Shiite political party, and has close ties to the
Badr Organization.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/world/14083330.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_world
Sun, Mar. 12, 2006
Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say
By Matthew Schofield Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Senior Iraqi officials Sunday confirmed for the first time that death
squads composed of government employees had operated illegally from
inside two government ministries.
"The deaths squads that we have captured are in the defense and
interior ministries," Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said during a
joint news conference with the Minister of Defense.
"There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior."
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Doin' what the murderous Bush Crime Family does best.
Harry
Who is John Negroponte? Ambassador to Death Squads.
http://counterpunch.org/hassan06042004.html
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