Common Dreams – by Jon Queally
A special investigation by The Guardian newspaper and BBC Arabic that took place over 15 months claims to reveal a shocking, but substantial connection between the murderous tactics of US-backed Latin American ‘death squads’ in the 1980’s and the rise of a similar tactics—including secret detention centers, torture, disappearances, and mass killings—that helped spark a sectarian civil war between Shia and Sunni rivals in the violent days triggered by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Continue reading “Revealed: The US ‘Dirty War’ Veteran Who Trained Iraqi ‘Death Squads’”