Revealed : Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link
The 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.
#irak
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=0
There 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.
Voir aussi le Washington Post.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120300881.html
Il me semble que l’enquête apporte des éléments nouveaux, non ? Notamment sur l’implication directe des responsables américains
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-gett
Petraeus’ Torture Teams
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tirman/petraeus-torture-iraq_b_2825857.html