"For months, stories from the Shiite south and Sunni center have reported the same phenomenon: people being summarily seized by large groups of armed men wearing police commando uniforms, packing high-priced Glocks, using sophisticated radios and driving Toyota Land Cruisers with police markings. The captives are taken off and never seen again – unless they turn up with a load of other corpses days or weeks later, bearing marks of the gruesome tortures they suffered before the ritual shot in the head. Needless to say, these mass murders under police aegis are rarely investigated by the police.
Earlier this year, one enterprising Knight-Ridder reporter, Yasser Salihee, actually found several eyewitnesses willing to testify to the involvement of the U.S.-backed commandos in 12 such murders. The offer was shrugged off by the Interior Ministry's spokesman – an American "adviser" and veteran bones-maker from the Colombian ops. In the end, it didn't matter; Salihee was shot dead by a U.S. sniper at a checkpoint a few days afterwards.
Death Mask: The Deliberate Disintegration of Iraq
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I hope you are as ashamed of yourself as I, an Army soldier, am of you. Yes, things are crazy in Iraq and many unscrupulous soldiers take advantage of this every day. If you attended basic training, you KNOW that when something "feels wrong" to us we have not only a moral obligation, but an absolute DUTY to report it to our superiors. If they fail to act we MUST report higher and higher and even to our congressmen if neccessary. I gather by your blog that you were probably a line soldier (11, 12, 21 series?). Being a line medic, I ask where were the medics and officers (i.e. GTs above 110)? If they were silent then I am ashamed of them as well. Never forget we fight the fights worth fighting, not just those we can win.
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