Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
"We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" "Insurgent actions are responsible for the bulk of [45 journalist] deaths[45 in two years...while US has ONLY killed 3 of those 45 in the past 7 DAYS! New and improved, this week only!!!]", (see "Mao-Mao Countergang Tactic", "Vincent Petruskie", etc) "Donald Rumsfeld said,Why would I even talk about something like that?" "the director of Baghdad's central morgue began noticing that the bodies of Sunni Muslim men were turning up after the men had been detained bypeople wearing Iraqi police uniforms" Ghathanfar al-Jasim, who sits on Iraq's national judicial council andfunctions as an attorney general, said it was difficult to discuss extrajudicial killings. "We cannot admit that our police are doing it; it would make them look WEAK" [in front of their mentors!] "battered corpses turn up outside Interior Ministry facilities" "Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq. Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Death Squads seem to have arrived in an article titled Campaign of executions feared in Iraq. Slain Sunnis have arrived at Baghdad's morgue blindfolded, bound and shot.The author of today's K-R article himself was shot and killed" "We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/24/ AR2005062401529_pf.html By AIDAN LEWIS The Associated Press Friday, June 24, 2005; 10:52 PM ROME -- An Italian judge on Friday ordered the arrests of 13 CIA officers for secretly transporting a Muslim preacher from Italy to Egypt http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_east/2928153.stm Two cameramen, working for Reuters and Spain's Telecinco, were killed when a shell hit the hotel which houses hundreds of foreign journalists. There is video footage of an American Abrams tank firing at the building. Earlier, a correspondent for the Arabic TV broadcaster al-Jazeera was killed when US missiles hit the network's office "We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/ AR2005061600253_pf.html By JUDITH INGRAM The Associated Press Thursday, June 16, 2005; 6:52 AM MOSCOW -- Russian prosecutors have determined that a former separatist Chechen official who was the subject of a book by U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov ordered his murder... Klebnikov also was widely known for a book about controversial tycoon Boris Berezovsky. After Klebnikov wrote a profile of Berezovsky for Forbes in 1996, Berezovsky filed a libel suit against the magazine in Britain. He withdrew the suit in 2003 after the publication acknowledged it was wrong to allege he was involved in the murder of... television personality Vladislav Listyev http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/ AR2005062101365_pf.html By TRACI CARL The Associated Press Tuesday, June 21, 2005; 7:34 PM MEXICO CITY -- Members of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels were responsible for the death of a Tijuana investigative journalist last summer, according to a media watchdog group that was briefed by a Mexican federal prosecutor. Francisco Javier Ortiz, editor of Zeta newspaper, was fatally shot on June 22, 2004, in Tijuana. He had long specialized in reporting on organized crime and drug trafficking Liberating the Poppies in Afghanistan from Religious Fundamentalist Taliban or "Students"-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2005/06/28/AR2005062800125_pf.html By Andy Mosher Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, June 29, 2005; A16 BAGHDAD, June 28 -- In Baghdad, American soldiers killed an Iraqi news executive when he did not pull over as a U.S. convoy passed on a road in Baghdad, according to Muhanad Jawad, a physician quoted by the Associated Press. Ahmed Wael Bakri, a program director at al-Sharqiya TV, was the third Iraqi journalist alleged killed by U.S. forces in similar incidents in the past week. The U.S. military said it was investigating. On Sunday, Maha Ibrahim, a news editor with al-Iraqiya television in Baghdad, was killed in the capital when U.S. troops opened fire after apparently coming under attack, channel director Saad al-Bayati told the Associated Press. On Friday, [Yasser Salihee] an Iraqi reporter working for an American news organization was shot and killed in Baghdad, allegedly by U.S. troops, after he apparently did not respond to a shouted signal from a military convoy, witnesses said. Special correspondents Khalid Alsaffar and Omar Fekeiki contributed to this report. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/ AR2005062800955_pf.html The Associated Press Tuesday, June 28, 2005; 4:44 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops allegedly killed an Iraqi television
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2005 1:37:41 PM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in IraqReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/28/83229/2960Salvador Option: Death Squads in IraqHal C , Daily KosTue Jun 28th, 2005 at 05:32:29 PDTIn January, Newsweek reported that the Pentagon was considering the SalvadorOption for Iraq--US-trained Death Squads—in an article titled ‘The SalvadorOption’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnappingteams in Iraq. Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Death Squads seem tohave arrived in an article titled Campaign of executions feared in Iraq.Slain Sunnis have arrived at Baghdad's morgue blindfolded, bound and shot.The author of today's K-R article himself was shot and killed undermysterious circumstances last week in Baghdad.The explicit purpose of the Salvador Option was to terrorize the Sunnipopulation. According to Newsweek.[Director of Iraq’s National Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. MuhammadAbdallah] Shahwani also said that the U.S. occupation has failed to crackthe problem of broad support for the insurgency. The insurgents, he said,"are mostly in the Sunni areas where the population there, almost 200,000,is sympathetic to them." He said most Iraqi people do not actively supportthe insurgents or provide them with material or logistical help, but at thesame time they won’t turn them in. One military source involved in thePentagon debate agrees that this is the crux of the problem, and he suggeststhat new offensive operations are needed that would create a fear of aidingthe insurgency. "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support itis giving to the terrorists," he said. "From their point of view, it iscost-free. We have to change that equation."As of January, the Pentagon would admit only that Death Squads were on thetable.Pentagon sources emphasize there has been no decision yet to launch theSalvador option.In a postscript to the Newsweek article Rumsfeld responded to the charges:And at a news conference on Jan. 11, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saidthe idea of a Salvador option was "nonsense" and denied that U.S. SpecialForces were going into Syria. But when asked whether such a policy was underconsideration, he replied, "Why would I even talk about something likethat?"Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Salvador Option may be a reality.BAGHDAD - Days after Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April28, the director of Baghdad's central morgue began noticing that the bodiesof Sunni Muslim men were turning up after the men had been detained bypeople wearing Iraqi police uniforms.The official response:Ghathanfar al-Jasim, who sits on Iraq's national judicial council andfunctions as an attorney general, said it was difficult to discussextrajudicial killings. "We cannot admit that our police are doing it; itwould make them look weak,"andBut when battered corpses turn up outside Interior Ministry facilities,[Raad] Sultan [an official in Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights] said, "Howcan I prove it is the security forces?”Knight-Ridder reports several examples. Here is one.On May 5, for example, 14 Sunni farmers were abducted from an east Baghdadvegetable market. […] The bodies of the farmers were discovered in shallowgraves the next day. They had all been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot oncein the back of the head […] "A patrol of more than 10 police vehicles droveup and parked," said Ali Karim, a fruit vendor. "They were running throughthe street with their guns, saying that the farmers had a car bomb withthem. They pushed them against the walls and asked them for their IDs."A moment of respect for the author of the Knight Ridder article:[The author of this article] Yasser Salihee was a special correspondent. Hewas shot and killed last week in Baghdad in circumstances that remainunclear.That Yasser Salihee has not died in vain.Withdraw all troops now.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net CAUTION! # Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it
