Death Squads Roaming Iraq
November 29, 2005
Death Squads Roaming Iraq
"Shiite Muslim militia members have infiltrated Iraq's police force and are carrying out sectarian killings under the color of law," the Los Angeles Times reports. "The abuses raise the specter of organized retaliation to attacks by Sunni-led insurgents that have killed thousands of Shiites, who endured decades of subjugation under Saddam Hussein."
"And they undermine the U.S. effort to stabilize the nation, and train and equip Iraq's security forces -- the Bush administration's key prerequisites for the eventual withdrawal of American troops."
The Iraq Interior Ministry's inspector general "concurs that extrajudicial killings are being carried out by ministry forces."
Of course, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT), just back from Iraq, writes in the Wall Street Journal that the conflict is much simpler: "It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern."
No mention of death squads.
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