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US Training of Death Squads in Iraq? - War Is A Crime .org

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Global Terror by Secret <strong>US</strong> <strong>Death</strong> <strong>Squads</strong>:Gulfstream executive jets and hooded <strong>US</strong> agentsBy Henk Ruyssenaars – FPF – the Netherlands07/10/04207.44.245.159/article7069.htm“ The two prisoners have their clothes cut from their bodies by scissors, without their hand-andfoot cuffs be<strong>in</strong>g loosened. The naked and cha<strong>in</strong>ed prisoners have a suppository <strong>of</strong> unknown k<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>serted <strong>in</strong>to their anus, and diapers are put on them. They are forcibly dressed <strong>in</strong> dark overalls.Their hands and feet are cha<strong>in</strong>ed to a specially designed harness. On the plane, both men arebl<strong>in</strong>dfolded and hooded… the plane takes <strong>of</strong>f at 21.49 and sets course towards Egypt.”Amsterdam – 13-10-2004 -- Three years ago, on October 1, 2001, President Bush made areference to the arrests <strong>in</strong> foreign countries, <strong>in</strong> a speech at the headquarters <strong>of</strong> the FederalEmergency Management Agency (FEMA)* <strong>in</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton.He was quoted <strong>in</strong> the Wash<strong>in</strong>gton Post <strong>in</strong> November 2001 – as say<strong>in</strong>g “that the American peoplearen't go<strong>in</strong>g to see exactly what's tak<strong>in</strong>g place on their TV screens,” but he added that “slowly,but surely,” progress was be<strong>in</strong>g made.“You see, we've said to people around the world: 'This could happen to you, this could haveeasily have taken place on your soil, so you need to take threats seriously, as well,” Bush said.“We're beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g to share <strong>in</strong>telligence amongst our nations. We're f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g out members <strong>of</strong> theQaeda <strong>org</strong>anization, who they are, where they th<strong>in</strong>k they can hide. And we're slowly, but surely,br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g them to justice.”It is known that s<strong>in</strong>ce Sept. 11, <strong>in</strong>telligence shar<strong>in</strong>g and cooperation/collaboration among foreignservices worldwide has flourished. The grow<strong>in</strong>g number <strong>of</strong> foreign detentions, part <strong>of</strong> the“unseen” war on terror that President Bush has frequently alluded to, shows the degree <strong>of</strong>cooperation other nations are quietly provid<strong>in</strong>g to the U.S. effort to crush al Qaeda.Seymour Hersh has warned <strong>in</strong> his recent talks at Berkeley about this secret <strong>US</strong> military unit(there are more / HR) The <strong>Iraq</strong> war is not w<strong>in</strong>nable” Hersh said: “My government has a secretunit that has been 'disappear<strong>in</strong>g' people s<strong>in</strong>ce December 2001. Rumsfeld decided after 9/11 thathe could not wait. The president signed a secret document. There's a team <strong>of</strong> people, they fly <strong>in</strong>unmarked planes, they fly <strong>in</strong> Gulfstreams*, they have their own choppers, they don't carryAmerican passports, and they just grab people.” [end quote]56

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