Iraq’s Death
Squads: An Instrument Of The Occupation
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The Death
Squads
On November 14, 2006 militias and death squads dressed as
police commandos kidnapped up to 150 staff and visitors in
broad daylight raid – one of daily raids throughout Iraq – on
the Higher Education Ministry annexe in central Baghdad.
Although some hostages have been released, the fate of others
is unknown. It is alleged that large number of the hostages
have been tortured and others were murdered. The totality of
the raids, kidnapping, torture, ongoing civilian massacres and
murder were part of the illegal and racist war of aggression
perpetrated by the U.S. and Britain against a defenceless
nation in disregard of International Law and contempt for
International institutions.
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This Was
Israel's War
Let me stating the obvious. The U.S. did not invade Iraq to
establish “democracy” and “free Iraqis”. The U.S. invaded and
destroyed Iraq in order to humiliate and divide Muslims –
Arabs in particular –, protect Israel’s Zionist expansion and
control Iraq’s natural wealth. So, the U.S.-imposed democracy
by force is fraud. ‘Democracy is like a plant; it grows from
bottom up, not from top down’. The U.S. sabotage of democracy
in Palestine and U.S. support for Israel’s criminal
destruction of Lebanon are just two current examples of U.S.
love for democracy. Also the idea that the U.S. and its allies
are in Iraq to stabilise the situation is a falsehood.
Destabilisation was one of the aims of U.S. foreign policy.
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US
Builds Permanent Bases
The unprovoked war of aggression and the continuing U.S.
presence in Iraq, including the illegal building of U.S.
military bases and the largest C.I.A. station in the world on
Iraqi soil, are major destabilising factors. The U.S.
objectives have always been to weaken Iraq, divide the people
and control Iraq behind a façade of corrupt stooges, with
poorly trained and poorly armed army and police.
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Israeli
Trained Death Squads
Long before the invasion, the U.S. and its allies were
involved in the training and arming of tens of thousands of
militias and anti-Iraq collaborators....
InLet
a Thousand Militias Bloom , Arun Gupta writes that
‘the U.S. government is not only aware of these illegal
militias but is arming, training and funding them for use in
their counter-insurgency operations’. According to Greg
Jaffe of the Wall Street Journal, the “special police
commandos” – is being used throughout Iraq and has been
conducting criminal assassinations known as the “Salvador
option” with the full knowledge of U.S. forces. “Pound for
pound, though, they are the toughest force we’ve got”, Col.
Dean Franklin, a senior officer in Gen. David Petraeus’s
command told Greg Jaffe (WSJ, February 16, 2005).
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The occupying forces have also succeeded in turning one
militia group against the other using the civilian population
as a fodder. “And it's all happening under the eyes of US
commanders, who seem unwilling or unable to intervene”,
revealed Deborah Davies in a special Channel 4 investigation,
‘Iraq’s Death Squads’.
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Ethnic Cleansing Of
Intelligentsia
To destroy Iraq as an independent nation, the U.S. initiated
the criminal campaign of “De-Ba’athification”, which implied
the liquidation of anyone associated with the Ba’ath Party as
well as anyone with anti-Occupation nationalist views.
“De-Ba’athification” is simply a murderous campaign for
inciting violence and destroying the Iraqi society.
Together with the Israeli Mossad, U.S. Special Forces, the
pro-Occupation militias and death squads have embarked on
deliberate campaign of assassinations and ethnic cleansing.
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Thousands of scientists, including more than 350 scientists
specialized in nuclear science have been assassinated.
Thousands of professors, prominent politicians, and medical
doctors have been murdered in cold blood. The Ministry of
Higher Education reported that at least 210 teachers have been
murdered and some 3,700 have fled Iraq to neighbouring
countries. According to the UN more than 3,000 Iraqis flee to
Syria and Jordan every day to avoid being killed. More than
1.7 million Iraqis have fled the country.
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Create Terror And Civil War
The aim is to create a climate of
terror and incite civil war among Iraqis in order to justify
the ongoing Occupation of Iraq and the fraudulent “war on
terror”. The growing number of daily civilian massacres, rapes
and torture of Iraqis by U.S. forces and their collaborators
are deliberately ignored by the media, making Iraq the biggest
hidden U.S. atrocity in the U.S. history of violence against
defenceless people. It is also possible that the violence is
created to provide a “safety net” for foreign troops'
withdrawal and discredit the heroic struggle and Resistance
against the Occupation and deny Iraqis victory against the
most violent and powerful war machine in history.
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The U.S. policy of “let them kill each other” is an integral part
of U.S. foreign policy carefully executed to serve U.S.
imperialist interests. Hence, the comment of Senator Carl Levin,
“We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves”, designed to deflect
any U.S. responsibility away from war crimes and misleadingly
presenting the Occupation as the saviour of Iraqis. We know that
the vast majority of Iraqis disagree and want the immediate end of
the Occupation. More than 61 per cent of Iraqis approve of the
Resistance attacks against the occupying forces. The U.S. and its
allies bear full responsibility for the destruction of Iraq and
for the death of more than 700,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
Iraqis have gone many generations without fighting each other.
Iraqi (males and females) worked studies and conducted their
business in a safe environment. Regardless of their religious
affiliations and ethnic backgrounds, the Iraqi people were living
in peaceful environment despite the horror of the West-imposed
genocidal sanctions. Why have they suddenly started fighting? Why
all these crimes and bloodshed did not take place under the
government of Saddam Hussein, even when his government was
scrutinised by Western NGOs and human rights organisations? Today,
these NGOs and human rights organisations have remained silent,
preferring to use the fraudulent and farcical trial of Saddam to
claim credibility of “defending” human rights. In less than four
years, the U.S. and U.S.-trained and armed death squads and
militias have destroyed Iraq beyond comprehension.
The immediate arrest of senior police commandos after the raid on
the Higher Education Ministry annexes and the immediate release of
some hostages shed light on the extent of U.S. complicity in the
ongoing crimes against the Iraqi people. Therefore, the longer the
U.S. forces stayed in Iraq, the more violence they generate. Only
full and immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces and mercenaries will
contribute to the end of violence and ongoing suffering of the
Iraqi people.
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