By Colombo Telegraph –
“The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.” the Guardian reports.
This exclusive report is based on an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic.
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A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, worked with Steele and reported directly to General David Petraeus, who had been sent into Iraq to organise the Iraqi security services.
Karina / August 14, 2013
On the flip side of the glitz and glamour, California is
also known for its high crime rate, magnified by television documentaries such as MSNBC’s Lockup: Raw. You tell Jimmy to do his college assignments and Jimmy quits halfway through them when you’re
not looking. You generally want them simply and freed from cost of cost.
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