Re: [lbo-talk] ‘The Salvador Option’

[RE]

I saw the same article linked at www.antiwar.com.  But haven't US organized
assassination teams been active for quite a while?  The following was top of
the heap at Google.   So is MSNBC playing along with the idea that the US
has been that much more Geneva-friendly, and is only now going to use this
tactic?
Randy

Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday December 9, 2003
The Guardian

Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive
counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination
squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said
yesterday.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has sent urban warfare specialists to Fort
Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces, and according to two
sources, Israeli military "consultants" have also visited Iraq.

US forces in Iraq's Sunni triangle have already begun to use tactics that
echo Israeli operations in the occupied territories, sealing off centres of
resistance with razor wire and razing buildings from where attacks have been
launched against US troops. ...."

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Subject: [lbo-talk] ‘The Salvador Option’

MSNBC.com

‘The Salvador Option’
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in
Iraq
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Hirsh and John Barry
With Mark Hosenball