I truly hope The Guardian is joking.
The US doesn't need assassination or cultural genocide techniques training from anyone. The IDF is simply learning to inter-operate with the US military in Iraq.
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----- Original Message ----- From: RE To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:28 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] ‘The Salvador Option’
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. ...."
----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Meyers" <leigh_m at sbcglobal.net> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:03 PM 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
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