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05/08/2004:

"Same Old Same Old"

After World War II, the OSS/CIA recruited former Nazis to 'get the Commies'-this turned into an international fascist network that engineered coups from Iran to Congo to Chile, created torture states in Latin America and elsewhere, became international drug and weapons and terror-merchants...A lot of this information emerged during the Contra war in Nicaragua. General John Singlaub, Michel(?) Sindona, the Banco D'Ambrosiano/Continental of Illinois scandal...The strategy described below is out of the book. Same book. Same guys.

Operation Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of history
Death squads didn’t work in Vietnam, but the CIA is betting they’ll be great in Iraq
by Nick Schou

Never pretty, the war in Iraq is about to get a whole lot uglier. U.S. officials have begun to recruit ex-officers of Saddam Hussein’s infamous Mukhabarat, or secret police, to hunt down resistance forces fighting U.S. troops in Iraq.

According to human rights groups, the Mukhabarat was responsible for torturing and murdering tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians during Hussein’s brutal reign. Nonetheless, the CIA has already reportedly begun sending paychecks to dozens of Saddam’s former thugs, who reportedly assisted in the successful hunt for Hussein and suspected Iranian and Syrian spies in Iraq.
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