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'US-trained death squads' organized torture sites across Iraq
Published time: April 08, 2013 23:25
After one year in Iraq the US government secretly enlisted retired Special Forces operatives to train Shia militia in the art of torture and other war crimes that fueled the Iraqi civil war, according to a new report.
'The Salvador Option
Jan 7, 2005 7:00 PM EST
What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon's latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"--and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can't just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right now, we are playing defense. And we are losing."
How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire
By SARAH LEAH WHITSON Published: May 15, 2013
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni.
Al Jazeera World : Roadtrip Iraq
Published on Jul 31, 2013
Roadtrip Iraq is crossing the country from north to south, taking the pulse of a nation that is no longer at war but neither at peace
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WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
Published on Mar 8, 2013
Directed by MediaChannel Editor-in-Chief, Danny Schechter
This documentary is about the media itself, viewed as a weapon system: Weapons of Mass Deception. Those weapons drove a media war, a war that many now believe perverted freedom of the press in order to manipulate public support for a real war.