DEATH SQUADS IN IRAQ

El Salvador-style 'death squads' to be deployed by US against Iraq militants
From Roland Watson in Washington

THE Pentagon is considering forming hit squads of Kurdish and Shia
fighters to target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a strategic
shift borrowed from the American struggle against left-wing guerrillas
in Central America 20 years ago.


Bush's 'Death Squads'
By Robert Parry

Refusing to admit personal misjudgments on Iraq, George W. Bush instead is pushing the United States toward becoming what might be called a permanent “counter-terrorist” state, which uses torture, cross-border death squads and even collective punishments to defeat perceived enemies in Iraq and around the world.