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"For a very long time we have been talking about such violations and we have been telling theinterior ministry officials that there are squads that raid houses and arrest people who are foundlater executed in different parts of the capital," Nasser al-Ani said.© BBC MMVI114
http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-ruder240206.htmDeath-Squad “Democracy” In IraqBy Eric Ruder24 February, 2006Socialist WorkerThe U.S. invasion of Iraq was supposed to bring freedom and democracy. But a string of newrevelations have exposed the violent reality of life under U.S. occupation.In mid-February, Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced that it was launching an officialinvestigation into reports that death squads targeting Sunni Muslims are operating from within itsown police forces.Several days earlier, the release of a video of British soldiers savagely beating Iraqi youth madeheadlines around the world. So did the publication of previously unseen photographs of tortureand abuse carried out by U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.The mounting evidence of atrocities suffered by Iraqis has reinforced the bitterness many feeltoward U.S. and British occupation forces. “If coalition troops are protecting Iraq from terrorism,who is protecting Iraqis from coalition troops?” wondered Firas Al-Atraqchi in Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly.The allegations about death squads are not new. Members of the Sunni minority have soundedthe alarm for months about reports of uniformed Iraqi police raiding homes and leaving withloved ones--who would turn up days or weeks later, handcuffed and shot in the head.“Interior Ministry special forces detained my brother and four cousins two weeks ago from [theSunni] al-Aqsa Mosque in northern Baghdad’s Shula neighbourhood," security guard Ayad AliMahdi told the Associated Press in mid-February. “After two days, their bodies were found in apickup truck on a highway. It was horrific. Their bodies were tortured and mutilated by drills andan oxyacetylene welder.”Previously, Iraq’s Interior Ministry dismissed allegations that Shiite militias were operatingagainst Sunni targets from within the ranks of the police. But in early February, irrefutableevidence surfaced after U.S. troops stopped a 22-member death squad at a Baghdad checkpoint,and the men freely admitted they were on their way to execute a Sunni prisoner.“The amazing thing is...they tell you exactly what they’re going to do,” said Major Gen. JosephPeterson, the U.S. officer in charge of the civilian police training teams in Iraq.Four of the men are known to be loyal to the Badr Brigade, a feared militia known for itssectarian violence against Sunnis, which has links to the Supreme Council for the IslamicRevolution in Iraq (SCIRI), one of the leading Shiite parties in Iraq. The head of the Interior115
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