Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres | World news
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Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-linkThe Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.
Colonel James Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic shows.
After the Pentagon lifted a ban on Shia militias joining the security forces, the special police commando (SPC) membership was increasingly drawn from violent Shia groups such as the Badr brigades.
A second special adviser, retired Colonel James H Coffman, worked alongside Steele in detention centres that were set up with millions of dollars of US funding.
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Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-linkThe Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.
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La question qui se pose selon moi, est pourquoi une histoire connue depuis 2005 est recyclée juste maintenant, alors que les « tensions entre chiites et sunnites sont au plus haut. »
May 1, 2005
The Way of the Commandos
By PETER MAASS
Getting to Know the General
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/magazine/01ARMY.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0There are far more Americans in Iraq today — some 140,000 troops in all — than there were in El Salvador, but U.S. soldiers and officers are increasingly moving to a Salvador-style advisory role. In the process, they are backing up local forces that, like the military in El Salvador, do not shy away from violence. It is no coincidence that this new strategy is most visible in a paramilitary unit that has *Steele as its main adviser* ; having been a key participant in the Salvador conflict, Steele knows how to organize a counterinsurgency campaign that is led by local forces. He is not the only American in Iraq with such experience: the senior U.S. adviser in the Ministry of Interior, which has operational control over the commandos, is Steve Casteel, a former top official in the Drug Enforcement Administration who spent much of his professional life immersed in the drug wars of Latin America. Casteel worked alongside local forces in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, where he was involved in the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin cocaine cartel.
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Voir aussi le Washington Post.
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Il me semble que l’enquête apporte des éléments nouveaux, non ? Notamment sur l’implication directe des responsables américains
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How Petraeus Quietly Stoked the Fires of Sectarian War Without Getting Burned
►http://truth-out.org/news/item/13122-how-petraeus-quietly-stoked-the-fires-of-sectarian-war-without-gettPetraeus’ Torture Teams
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tirman/petraeus-torture-iraq_b_2825857.html
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