The CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and interior designers
The US military recently accused Iran of training “death squads” whose primary goal is carrying out assassinations. The information is being made public to supposedly “pressure” Iranian leadership into halting these operations.
So if Iranian assassins are called “death squads” what are similarly trained operatives from the CIA or Army called?
Perhaps the euphemisms that Pentagon officials use are: customer service representatives, safety patrol officers, personal assistants, and make-over specialists.
While the actions of both sides are essentially premeditated murder, the CIA and Army special forces should also come clean about their decades old operations involving the execution of foreign nationals. Come clean on operations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Vietnam, and even Iran itself.
Contemporaneously, after deafening calls to reinstate the official sanctioning of assassinations, the legacy of director Richard Helms continues unabated,as the Pentagon continues to fund and operate the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning which has trained hundreds of foreign nationals with assassination tactics.
Furthermore, despite being banned in the 1970s — after revelations disclosed by the Church and Pike committees — with the assistance of Israeli Defense Forces, the US Army has been actively training “hunter-killer” squads in Iraq under a program called Operation Gray Fox.
And the latest act of bellicosity: this hypocritical condemnation comes a month after an exposé showed that last year, Congress appropriated $400 million for the CIA to conduct clandestine operations in Iran.
While the exact nature of the operations are undisclosed, it is difficult to fathom that the funds are financing more plumbers, carpenters, and electricians in a covert attempt to build new homes and infrastructure for local residents.
Eugene Costa
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Not to worry. It never works.
Nike
August 16th, 2008 at 4:37 am
It’s like there’s this big prize waiting to be given out for the world’s biggest hypocrites – and Americans are determined to win. If the kind of actions that the C.I.A. are funding in Iran isn’t state-run terrorism, then what is?
Not to worry. The American people KNEW that Chimp was running torture chambers and committing other war crimes BEFORE they rewarded The Torturer with a second term in power, back in 2004. When the majority of a nation gleefully reward men whom they KNOW are in the act of committing war crimes, anything is possible.
God Bless America.
stevieb
August 16th, 2008 at 9:09 am
You made me look at things in a new say, Nike. And I mean that complementary.
I think it’s safe to say those who vote for John McCain are essentially Nazi’s given McCain’s guaranteed fascist and destructive foreign policy. And anybody admitting to voting for this cretin should be treated accordingly – shamed humiliated, scorned.
Yeah Obama will probably be involved in some fascist war crimes himself – though on a far lesser scale I would feel sure of. And at any rate I have feeling the press won’t hesitate to ask President Obama the tough questions particularly in issues of war and say, like say international law or fiscal responsiblity. Yes, call me crazy but I can see the MSM suddenly discovering it’s moral compass.
Which, as pathetic as it appears, will a good thing I’m sure.
stephen
August 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
really? what about all of the people who lost their lives because of this? it worked on them.
Eugene Costa
August 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
That is not the point. Assassination never works politically.
1984
August 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
And we never kill, we “neutralize”.
Eugene Costa
August 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
“Neutralizing” almost always backfires. If the leadership of a “political movement”, particularly in its early stages, hinges on one easily elminated “leader”, it usually is not much of a movement.
That holds whether the “neutralization” is by assassination or getting run over by a truck.
The cowboy wing of the CIA in the past often tried to create “leaders” among their supposed opponents. They set them up, gave them play and press, and then eliminated them. It is part psychological warfare, part trying to make an example, and part wishful thinking.
By the time it gets to that stage, the masses are more easily riled than intimidated.
More important, the real leadership, as in Vietnam, is usually unknown and immune.
Too, it lets the enemy finger characters they want to get rid of.
Phoenix did not work in Vietnam. For every village headman “neutralized” there were ten new enemies made, and most of those targeted were the wrong people.
Ironically, in Vietnam the North Vietnamese had decided it was imperative to eliminate Diem and got the CIA to do it for them, making is a completely different kettle of fish.
Phonk
August 17th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Who’ behind the assassinations of 100 plus Iraqi academics?
The killing started days after the invasion.
Carlilse Johnson
August 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
This is completely absurd.
Sources?
Eugene Costa
August 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Israel trains US Assassination Squads in Iraq, a report from 2003:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/09/iraq.israel
Paul D. Alexander
August 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Excuse me, but the School of the Americas is down here in Georgia — in Fort Benning, to be precise (I live about 40 or 50 miles north of the fort). In Fort Bragg is the Special Warfare School.