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US kill squads in Iraq?
Source is al-Guardian, filtered through Iran Broadcasting, so don't get your hopes up...
Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in so-claimed 'counter-insurgency operations' in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, Britain's Guardian daily revealed Tuesday.
US special forces teams were already behind the lines inside Syria attempting to kill those perceived as possible threat before crossing the border with Iraq, the newspaper said.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the operations, it reported that a group focused on the "neutralisation" of Iraqi guerrilla leaders was being set up. "This is basically an assassination programme. That is what is being conceptualised here. This is a hunter-killer team," a former senior US intelligence official told the paper.
| Makes excellent sense to me... |
He added that he feared the new tactics and enhanced cooperation with Israel would inflame a volatile situation in the Middle East.
| We're at war. How can you get more "volatile" than being at war? (Does that hat really have an anus? Wow!) |
The Guardian said that according to US intelligence and military sources, the Israeli defence force had sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces. According to two sources, Israeli military "consultants" had also visited Iraq, the paper reported.
| "Hiya, Moshe! Welcome to Iraq!... Damn! Now that's some pliers!" |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-09 |
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