Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Did Washington Create Iraq's Death Squads?

The carnage in the wake of the American conquest of Iraq was horrific.   Iraqis were being murdered at rates of over 3,000 a month.

A documentary from The Guardian now suggests a good deal of the massacre was the handiwork of an American, a retired colonel named James Steele.   The documentary implicates Steele and his superior, David Petraeus, in the organization, arming and funding of Iraqi Shia police commando death squads.

Here's a trailer for the full documentary you can find at the link above.




3 comments:

thwap said...

Didn't some asshole named John Negroponte promise something called the "Salvador Solution"?

The Mound of Sound said...

For Iraq? I know Negroponte was up to his neck in Central America but...

thwap said...

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2006/03/02/4006/roots-of-iraq-civil-war-may-be-in-salvador-option/?mobile=nc

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20040806.htm