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Center for Research on Globalization
January 25, 2018
Danny Sjursen and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and other post-Cold War U.S. war zones are having a very different experience. ... in countries being punished for resistance to U.S. imperialism, using air strikes and locally recruited death squads instead of U.S. “boots on the ground” wherever possible.
Workers World
January 24, 2018
TPS was granted by Washington in 1990 to immigrants fleeing war, the aftermath of natural disasters and other dangerous conditions in their home countries. Of course, these conditions were caused by forced underdevelopment, exploitation and death-squad governments created by U.S. imperialism in theÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
January 24, 2018
Major Danny Sjursen, who has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and taught history at West Point, is a rare voice of sanity from within the US military. .... So the reliance on airstrikes and locally recruited death squads, the very strategies that make US imperialism palatable to the American public, are in fact theÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 10, 2018
The Iraq Report: Shia militias fill mass graves, then blame IS ... This week in Iraq: The Islamic State group were monstrous, but they were not the only ones. ... Iraqi families – who have confirmed that their loved ones were abducted by government-linked sectarian death squads – are now being told thatÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 4, 2018
The U.S.-led bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria has dropped 104,000 bombs and missiles since 2014, making it the heaviest U.S. bombing campaign since the American War in Vietnam. Iraqi government death squads once again prowl through the ruins of Mosul, torturing and summarily executingÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 29, 2017
Last week the High Court held that British troops serving in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion had subjected Iraqi civilians to "cruel and inhuman" treatment. It added that .... "Death squads" carried out atrocities on both sides, even as British and American soldiers were committing their own. MeanwhileÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
December 28, 2017
Following the US invasion of Iraq, Badr was invited into the Federal Police, and, over the years, has grown to dominate it and the Interior Ministry, which controls the police. These forces have often operated outside the law, for instance running death squads against Sunni civilians. The PMF has legalizedÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
July 13, 2017
Since the emergence of ISIS, the death squads of Iraq's former prime minister Nouri Maliki have now been completely revived by the Iranian regime to aid Iraqi troops in their fight against ISIS. Amalgamated with similar Shiite militia groups, under the collective name of the Popular Mobilisation Units, theyÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
This was a man who has all but admitted to running death squads while he was mayor, yet Rappler publicized his “transformation.” Less than a week later, ... According to the the International Federation of Journalists, for a quarter of a decade now, only Iraq has been a more dangerous beat. But Duterte isÃÂ ...
Daily Pakistan
November 11, 2017
The death squads, owned by nearly all the political parties in the city, were ... In contrast, ISIS members arrested in Iraq and Saudi Arabia were ...
The Independent
November 2, 2017
The PMUs are portrayed as sectarian death squads which are leading the offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan. One video posted online purports to ...
War on the Rocks
November 1, 2017
Shia death squads and the Iraqi government killed far more Sunnis. ... They both lie in stark contrast to most literature about events in Iraq, ...
Al-Arabiya
October 26, 2017
Nearly 2,000 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga died fighting ISIS as the ... build a new, stronger Iraq as a bastion against Iranian imperialism and foreign intrigue. ... and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah death squad, the Mukhtar Army.
New York Times
October 17, 2017
The Iraqi health ministry's headquarters and hospitals were ... Some hospitals in Baghdad became staging areas for death squads, from where ...
Express.co.uk
October 15, 2017
British troops were informed a black-clad death squad of Islamic extremists were targeting Christian civilians near the war-torn city and set out ...
KTVQ Billings News
October 2, 2017
Other Facts:In ancient times, the area comprising Iraq was known as Mesopotamia and .... March 20, 2003 - President Hussein speaks on Iraqi TV. .... is sentenced to death after being found guilty of running a death squad.
HuffPost
October 1, 2017
Serving as militant proxies for Iran throughout Iraq and Syria, these militias ... that he would have fought against these sectarian death squads.
Pravda
September 29, 2017
The outcome of the referendum about the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan ... Moreover, the example of Iraq and Syria shows that the Kurds could become ... punitive actions of Shiite "death squads" - all this was widely spread.
IRINnews.org
September 27, 2017
On 25 September, millions of Iraqi Kurds voted in a controversial referendum ... that will at best fail to function and at worst send death squads to their cities. ... The Iraqi Kurdish mobilisation was instantly reflected outside Iraq, ...
Green Left Weekly
September 13, 2017
... by El Salvador's right-wing death-squad government during the civil war ... George Bush appointed Negroponte as ambassador to Iraq in 2004, when ... Suddenly death squads appeared — using the same brutal “calling ...
Al-Arabiya
July 13, 2017
Since the emergence of ISIS, the death squads of Iraq's former prime ... by the Iranian regime to aid Iraqi troops in their fight against ISIS.
The Siasat Daily
December 31, 1999
Dahlia Wasfi is an Iraqi-American physician and peace activist. ... Iraqi father, Dr. Wasfi spent part of her early childhood living in Iraq ... Iraqi society today, thanks to American 'help', is defined by house raids, death squads, ...
Houston Chronicle
December 31, 1999
In recent years, they've been arriving from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, ... During the 1980s, they poured into the city to escape death squads and ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
PARIS — Jalal Talabani, the former Iraqi president who died on Tuesday, was ... In Iraq's post-Hussein Constitution, the position of president is largely ceremonial. ... He complained about the Shiite death squads that fueled a ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
September 19, 2017
... 2003 war in Iraq highlights the paper's importance and its influence .... as the infamous Salvadoran death squads (escuadrones de muerte),ÃÂ ...
AlterNet
September 19, 2017
... he enabled and covered for the murderous death squads of General ... he helped sell the invasion of Iraq on the false claims that SaddamÃÂ ...
Shadowproof (blog)
September 18, 2017
The vote for military action in Iraq, allowing the Bush administration to destroy every fabric of Iraqi life already suffering due to ... U.S. coup efforts, bringing about the resurgence of death squads in Honduras, and supporting “aÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
September 17, 2017
... to review military parades or dispatch death squads to kill opponents, ... McMaster has commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan almostÃÂ ...
San Mateo Daily Journal
September 8, 2017
Five years ago: Iraq sentenced fugitive Sunni Vice President Tariq ... to death on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in aÃÂ ...
Independent Online
September 8, 2017
The ministry conveyed to the Iraqi ambassador that “Turkey has no secret ... on charges of running a death squad and is being tried in absentia.
Los Angeles Times
September 5, 2017
In recent years, they've been arriving from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, ... During the 1980s, they poured into the city to escape death squads andÃÂ ...
FAIR
August 30, 2017
(Though most of this coverage was fluff, NPR at least bothered to ask him about the civilians wantonly killed by his death squads in Iraq.).
HuffPost
August 29, 2017
... to Iran be used to support the Shi'ite death squads in Iraq and Syria?” ... Al-Sadr has become more of an Iraqi nationalist over the last severalÃÂ ...
Tulsa World
August 24, 2017
Furthermore, the U.S. never left Iraq, having built the largest embassy there in the world and retaining private contractors and Special ForcesÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 21, 2017
Trump claims that Obama's decision to withdraw from Iraq led to the rise ... and abuses the Sunnis suffered at the hands of Shia death squads.
Truthdig
August 8, 2017
Between 1980 and 1988, the U.S. backed Iraq in an epic war with Iran. ... 300,000 soldiers killed and untold thousands still suffering from IraqiÃÂ ...
Asia Times
July 28, 2017
A handful of Iraqi Shiite leaders have been trying – with very limited ... during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and commanded death squads onÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
July 26, 2017
We had heard reports of so-called revenge death squads coming for ... For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Marcia Biggs in and around Mosul, Iraq.
Al-Arabiya
July 16, 2017
The track record of Iran-backed proxy groups and death squads in ... of all Iraqi parties reaching a political consensus in the post-ISIS stage.
Sonoran News
July 15, 2017
Mengals's group soon degenerated into a local death squad, killing people ... in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Al-Arabiya
July 13, 2017
Since the emergence of ISIS, the death squads of Iraq's former prime ... by the Iranian regime to aid Iraqi troops in their fight against ISIS.
The Hill (blog)
July 12, 2017
The fight to eject the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from Mosul ... is an IRGC-trained member of the Badr Organization — Iran's oldest Iraqi proxy. ... to ISIS — Shiite death squads, disappearances, and torture to name aÃÂ ...
The Times
July 11, 2017
A suspected Isis militant is taken away by the Iraqi army in the Old City of Mosul this week. Yesterday ... The death squad arrived by ambulance.
American Center for Democracy (registration) (blog)
December 31, 1999
Iran is using its influence and power over Shi'a politicians in Iraq, as well as .... and Iranian Militia death squads killed hundreds of Iraqi Sunnis.
Iran Focus
December 31, 1999
The first sign of death squads operating in Iraq became fully ... none were forthcoming, and so the Iraqi authorities turned to Iran for help, andÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
December 31, 1999
The first sign of death squads operating in Iraq became fully apparent ... It trained groups of Iraqi Shiite militias to carry out “irregular missions”à...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
... Adel Al Jubeir visited Iraq earlier in the year to meet with Iraqi Prime ... conducted by his Shiite death squads after the US invasion of Iraq inÃÂ ...
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
February 15, 2017
... is a worldwide shift to the right, represented by Trump, the rise of the so-called 'populist' right in Europe, by Modi in India, by the decline and semi-collapse of 'socialism for the 21st century' in Latin America and by morbid phenomena like the ...
Bay Area Indymedia
February 14, 2017
"Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich," Peter Ustinov said and thereby contradicted the media picture "we," the West who had to resist after being attacked without reason by barbarians.
Middle East Online
February 14, 2017
LONDON - At the end of January, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi managed to gain parliamentary approval for his nominees to the crucial ministries of Defence and the Interior.
