"Riding with the Bad Boys";
The rise of Iraqi death squads
By Mike Whitney
"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?" one
[Pentagon]
official asked Hersh. "We founded them and we financed them. The objective
now
is to recruit locals in any area we want." ... The authorization for the
death
squads comes straight from the Oval Office. ... The final leg on the stool
is
the propaganda war that is being directed against the American people to
conceal
the details of the military’s war crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11180.htm
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US paying Iraqi press to run favorable stories
By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly
paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an
effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11179.htm
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