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men were killed execution-style by Interior Ministry police or Shi'ite militias. In each case, Jabrordered an investigation, and in each case the investigation had yet to report any findings.Thanks in part to the Interior Minister's "nonfeasance," said Burke, the former Interior Ministryadviser, Jabr was at least indirectly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of military-age Sunnimen whose bodies have turned up at the sewage plant in southeast Baghdad since late December.Men in police uniforms and vehicles routinely travel through the city in daylight hours withbodies in the back of trucks for disposal at the sewage plant, he said. Prisoners often disappear,Burke said, because they're picked up at night and no one has an accurate account of who isarrested and where they are taken. "The Special Police Commandos," he said, using their oldname, "are most definitely out of control."So black is the reputation of the National Police, that after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariyashrine in Samarra, many Sunnis said the perpetrators were Interior Ministry troops who werelooking for a pretext to start a civil war. Their fears were further fueled in the bloody two daysafter the attack, when Iraq became a sectarian slaughterhouse. Instead of protecting citizens fromeach other, National Police units stood by as Shi'ite rioters — and rival militiamen from Moqtadaal-Sadr's Mahdi Army — stormed Sunni mosques and swarmed over Sunni neighborhoods,according to numerous reports, including some confirmed by U.S. Gen. George Casey,commander of American forces in Iraq.The American efforts to try and help stem the deadly sectarianism will likely do little good —and in some respects may well exacerbate the problem. Instead of increasing the number ofcivilian advisors to Iraq's local police forces, a spokeswoman for the Multinational SecurityTransition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) said more U.S. military police and military personnel willbe assigned to train them. The Special Police Transition Teams (SPTTs) are the model that willbe followed. "The SPTTs have been very successful in their efforts," the spokeswoman said. Nochange is planned for the oversight program on the National Police.Gompert notes, "I remember saying, 'If there is going to be a civil war, it's going to be foughtbetween Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militias." And as long as Jabr is running the InteriorMinistry and its police forces, there is little doubt which of the two in such a conflict will havethe law — and American training — on its side.136
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6884US military trained Iraq government death squadsBy David SprattGlobal Eco20th March, 2006On February 26, Andrew Buncombe and Patrick Cockburn reported in the BritishIndependent: “Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executedevery month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior,the United Nations' outgoing human rights chief in Iraq has revealed.“John Pace, who left Baghdad two weeks ago, told the Independent on Sunday that up to threequartersof the corpses stacked in the city's mortuary show evidence of gunshot wounds to thehead or injuries caused by drill-bits or burning cigarettes. Much of the killing, he said, wascarried out by Shia Muslim groups under the control of the Ministry of the Interior... Pace saidthe Interior Ministry was 'acting as a rogue element within the government’. It is controlled bythe main Shia party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri); the interiorminister, Bayan Jabr, is a former leader of Sciri's Badr Brigade militia, which is one of the maingroups accused of carrying out sectarian killings.“Not only counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade, the Scorpions and the Tigers, butthe commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as deathsquads.”Pace's comments lifted the lid on one of the horrible secrets of Iraq today — death squadsoperating in Iraq are not, as many journalists, commentators and Iraqi officials claim, simplyprivate militias operating separately from the government but are forces directly under thecontrol of the Iraqi interior ministry, which is funded by the occupation forces and advised byUS counter-insurgency experts well-practised in the use of death squads — from the CIA'sOperation Phoenix during the Vietnam War to the US-backed and trained death squads ofHonduras and El Salvador in the 1980s.The promises of the Iraq government to “disband the militias” is a distraction because at leastsome the death squads under question are under the command of the interior ministry, notindependent of it.The Special Police Commandos (SPC) is an elite Iraqi counter-insurgency unit, formed inAugust 2004 under the operational control of Iraq's interior ministry by Falah al Naqib (believedby many to have been a major CIA “asset”), then interior minister under the interim governmentof Iyad Allawi.After their formation, US Lieutenant-General David Petraeus, the US military commander incharge of training and arming the Iraqi security forces, visited the SPC training camp and137
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