Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say

Posted on Sun, Mar. 12, 2006
Death squads operated from inside Iraqi government, officials say
By Matthew Schofield
Knight Ridder Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Senior Iraqi officials Sunday confirmed for the first time that death squads composed of government employees had operated illegally from inside two government ministries. "The deaths squads that we have captured are in the defense and interior ministries," Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr said during a joint news conference with the Minister of Defense. "There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior."

Also, Sunday, a series of deadly attacks hit the Shiite Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, which had recently been relatively safe, initiating another round of sectarian killings and threatening to provoke more.

Seven car bombs were left in markets around the poor Shiite area. Two exploded at 5:30 p.m., another at 5:35 p.m., two at 5:40 p.m. in a different market, and one at 5:45 p.m. Police found and defused the seventh.

The blasts, set off at the busiest time of the day just after poor residents would have returned from their jobs, yet before curfew, killed 46 people and wounded another 204. By Sunday night, the suburb of 2.5 million had been sealed off by police and the private militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the Mahdi Army.

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:sarcasm:

Senior Iraqi officials Sunday confirmed for the first time that death squads composed of government employees had operated illegally from inside two government ministries

a semi-stable government with its own death squads. All it lacks is Sadaam -- well, maybe, if he can put this messy trial thing behind him. ;-)

Negroponte did his job. He was and is Ambassador of Death Squads, after all.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek
Their coverage of the "Salvadoran Option".

Isn't this lovely.

A worthy successor to the Butcher of Baghdad. The people of Iraq may look back wistfully to the reign of Saddam Hussein with Negroponte at the helm.

Looks like it wasn't just being considered in Iraq.

just saying..

There are people who have infiltrated the army and the interior.

Makes one think "Hmmmmm....."