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TheRealNews·Mar 15, 2013
Maggie O’Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel’s reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney.
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Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres
by Mona Mahmood, Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith
www.guardian.co.uk
6 March 2013
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.
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.
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freedetainees on Apr 16, 2013
see
Don’t Mention the War! by Lesley Docksey
Hubris: Selling the Iraq War + Hubris Isn’t the Half of It by David Swanson
Iraq: A Twenty-Two Year Genocide by Felicity Arbuthnot
from the archives:
How to Train Death Squads and Quash Revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq
A Tale of One City, Now Two By Ali al-Fadhily
Iraq: Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad By Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily
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Maggie O’Kane represents a moral force the criminal establishment has underestimated.
In time these despicable poseurs will be indicted. Obama had better watch his step.
The Mills of the Gods, ‘n all that…
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