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Cia death squads responsible for spike in afghan civilian. In the year leading up to carters decision the salvadoran armed forces and the rightwing death squads linked to them had killed more than 8,000 noncombatant civilians among them four u. Human rights watch hrw says ciabacked afghan paramilitary forces have committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and attacks on healthcare facilities. Members of the nazi german police massacre women and children during the holocaust. The official in charge of the hit teams was a senior aide to cia director mike pompeo, who trump just nominated to be secretary of state. Those attacks killed four men who locals described as taliban fighters, as well. An insiders account of how the cia spearheaded the war on terror in afghanistan 9780891418757. Accordingly, they may be copied freely without permission of the central intelligence agency cia. Human rights watch hrw says ciabacked afghan paramilitary forces have committed summary executions and other grave abuses. Cialinked unit accused of atrocities in afghanistan the guardian.

Author of three books on cia operations, valentines res. View the chiefs of state and cabinet members of afghanistan. A ciabacked militia targeted clinics in afghanistan, killing medical workers and civilians. These cia teams in afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the operation phoenix program in vietnam, the death squads of central america. With aid and training from the cia, afghan paramilitary forces have carried out a spree of war crimes and other grave abuses against civilians including torture and executions an.

Cia death squads responsible for spike in afghan civilian casualties by bill van auken 2 november 2019 civilian casualties have reached a record high in. The first major operation, code named operation cyclone, began in 1979. Ciatrained death squads behind afghan war crimes, says rights group. Cia death squad organizer is nyts source on ben carsons. Often, the raids that resulted in civilian deaths were carried out not far from. Recruiting hardened criminals, viet cong defectors, and various ethnic minorities like the hmong, and montagnards the cia formed brutal death squads highly trained in methods of covert war. Killing hope was first published outside of north america by zed books ltd, 7. The report condemned extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, indiscriminate airstrikes, attacks on medical facilities, and other. The men who killed them were from a progovernment force backed by the cia and largely unaccountable to afghan authorities, the family say.

Usnato death squads killing indiscriminately in afghanistan. Abusive night raids by ciabacked afghan strike forces hrw. Some of the best books out there about the wars in iraq and afghanistan score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. News ciatrained afghan forces committed war crimes, report. With aid and training from the cia, afghan paramilitary forces have carried out a spree of war crimes and other grave abuses against civilians including ciabacked paramilitary death squads guilty of war crimes in afghanistan hrw rt. In its effort to vet one of the leading gop presidential candidates, dr. According to a report issued by the united nations assistance mission in afghanistan unama, more than 4,300 afghan civilians were killed or. Mark fayloga cia backed death squads in afghanistan have committed a number of human rights violations over the last year, a human rights watch report found thursday, and the militant groups are likely to be the lasting. Cia death squads responsible for spike in afghan civilian casualties. Ciabacked afghan death squads are accused of executing civilians, carrying out indiscriminate air strikes and committing human rights abuses ciabacked afghan paramilitary are. Ben carson, the new york times didnt properly vet its primary source in this vetting, former cia officer duane clarridgean indicted liar and overseer of contra death squads in central america while the times trip gabriel briefly notes the former, he completely omits the latter, instead offering this starryeyed. A ciabacked militia targeted clinics in afghanistan, killing medical.

Cia plans to keep death squads operating in afghanistan. The cias dark prince doesnt want war with iranaugust 29, 2019 according to various intelligence analysts spoken to by, dandrea is in favour of dialogue with irans nonirgc leadership. Richard joseph camellion, as described in the books, is a master of disguise, the martial arts and wetwork. The kpf is the most active and visible of an extensive network of ciasponsored paramilitary groups in afghanistan. Ironically, the very night that mcdonald was killed, pinochet, his ciasupported hero was taunted by rioters in chile. Trumps cia has set up teams to kill terrorists small teams are locating and killing bad guys. As for the rightwing paramilitary death squads, which carry out the vast majority of terrorist acts against civilian targets in colombia, while the u. Although the term death squad did not rise to notoriety until the activities of such groups became widely known in central and south america during the 1970s and 80s, death squads have been employed under different guises throughout history. President reagan had seen an expansion of the reagan doctrine, which aided antisoviet resistance movements. Joanne herring, charlie wilson and the cias war in. The chilean people also want their nightmare decade to end. Holbrooke, former us special representative to afghanistan and pakistan.

The cia cite, updated in 2008 states most southwest asian heroin flows overland through iran. Afghanistan, where the cia paid millions of dollars to regional warlords to fight against the taliban regime. Nader shah kot, afghanistan razo khan woke up suddenly to the sight of. These books explain the joys and mysteries of the home. The agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. Is the us maintaining death squads and torture militias in. Obando was a plodding but somewhat complex character. Ciabacked afghan militias kill with impunity, rights.

One of the main tasks of the cia personnel stationed at the base was to provide intelligence supporting drone attacks in pakistan. Speaking to human rights watch, one diplomat familiar with afghan strike force operations referred to them as death squads. Throughout west africa, the cia and us special forces are providing training and support for death squads in nigeria, niger, mauritania, and mali. These cia teams in afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the operation phoenix program in vietnam, the death squads of central. Speaking to hrw, one diplomat referred to the nds as death squads. General stanley mcchrystals concern is not the deaths, however, but the manner in which they are fuelling afghan hatred for the usled occupation and their. Cia backed death squads in afghanistan are allegedly behind mass atrocities in the country. He is even said to be in favour of talks with irans foremost military leader and the architect of its strategy to create and sustain a. Earlier this week the ny times had this story on the expansion of cia paramilitary teams in afghanistan.

The cia trained and funded them to attack al qaeda and taliban. Cias afghan militias are death squads, new human rights. These cia teams in afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the operation phoenix program in vietnam, the death squads of central america and the shia torture and murder militias of baghdad, they are the direct descendants of them. Since the 1970s, the cia has engaged in multiple operations in afghanistan. The deaths are a reflection of the heavy price the agency has paid in a secret, nearly 16yearold war, where thousands of c.

In afghanistan, as in syria, trumps promise to end washingtons forever wars has amounted to empty. Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads 28. Ciatrained death squads behind afghan war crimes, says. Afghan security units backed by the cia have carried out extrajudicial. The death merchant is the title and lead character of a series of mens actionadventure books written by joseph rupert rosenberger and published by pinnacle books from 1971 to 1988.

The secret history of the cia, afghanistan, and bin laden, from the soviet invasion to september 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the cias involvement in the evolution of the taliban and al qaeda in the years before the september 11 attacks. According to the report, the kpf operates almost exclusively along the afghanpakistani border and has a strong presence. Cia death squads unmasked a programme to use cia assassins to hunt down and kill members of al qaeda has been shut down by the head of the us intelligence agency but there are conflicting. There the cia mounted the infamous phoenix program to terrorize south vietnamese villages with ciarun death squads who neutralized more than 80,000 real or suspected viet cong.

Cia death squads killing with impunity in afghanistan. From the beginning, coll shows how the cias onagain, offagain engagement with afghanistan after the end of the soviet war. Imperialism and class struggle in colombia oliver villar, drew cottle nyu press, 2011 cocaine industry 273 pages. Afghanistans ciabacked militias, whose tradition goes back to the sovietafghan war of the 1980s, are seen as a critical tool in the fight against taliban and islamic state militants. Cia map tracing opium traffic from afghanistan to europe, 1998. Pinochet is responsible for dina, nazilike deathsquad terrorist teams that are an arm of the chilean police, necessary to maintain his repressive regime. It officially installed iron guard death squads in 1936 in order to kill political. Instead, they are secret operations conducted by small teams of highly. Cia heroin, gotta get that black ops off the books money from somewhere. Ciabacked death squads in afghanistan have committed a number of human rights violations over the last year, a human rights watch report. They would sneak into a village at night and brutally slaughter someone they suspected of working with the nlf, along with their families and any witnesses. We may be fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country. I learned that the cia had been using the church and cardinal miguel obando y bravo to funnel money into nicaragua. The father of the cia operative who was the first u.

Surprisekillvanishthesecrethistoryofciaparamilitaryarmies. Elected in 1978, as rightwing death squads were gaining momentum across latin america, john paul ii offered little protection to leftleaning priests and nuns who were targeted. The khost protection force operates out of the cia s camp chapman base in eastern afghanistan, which in 2009 was the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes in agency history. Every cia station maintained subversive control watch list of most important left wing activists. It was a program to arm and finance the mujahideen fighters in afghanistan prior to and during the military intervention by the ussr. This is my response, in interviews with kpfk and kpfa, and published in counterpunch and. The new york times reported this week that the overall commander of us and nato troops in afghanistan is seeking to impose tighter control over the activities of special forces units, after recent operations led to more civilian deaths.