[Peace-discuss] Negroponte and death squads…

[Morton K. Brussel]

This from the Burbules list serve:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1753653,00.html
US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing

While the article was very interesting in itself, one of the reader  
comments (by Ogun) made me think back to a question you raised not  
too long ago, about why death squads always seem to follow Negroponte  
around everywhere he goes:

[Ogun April 14, 2006 09:58 AM]

These are not "US allies": the death squads were trained by US  
intelligence under Negroponte as a deliberate attempt to apply the  
"Salvador option" -- ie a strategy of covert mass murder via local  
proxies as used in El Salvador. . . whereby a deathsquad pretends to  
be insurgents or "Al Qaeda" and then either sucks in and exposes real  
insurgents, or commits some terrible atrocity (like blowing up a  
Shiite temple or pilgrims?) in an attempt to discredit the insurgency  
or to promote civil war. This was all written about by Seymour Hersh  
in the New Yorker over a year ago:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0117-11.htm
"The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up  
what it calls "action teams" in the target countries overseas which  
can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. "Do you  
remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?" the former  
high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military- 
led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties.  
"We founded them and we financed them," he said. "The objective now  
is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell  
Congress about it." A former military officer, who has knowledge of  
the Pentagon's commando capabilities, said, "We're going to be riding  
with the bad boys."

--mkb
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