On May 11, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 5/11/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My memory is fuzzy but here is my understanding. I recall reading
about the Wolf Brigade,
probably in the New York Times. The leader was a Sunni. And it
was with respect to this
group that the Salvador option was being discussed.
Death squads are indispensable to any counter-insurgency war
fought by
Washington.
I think the distinction may be that there are just too many
freelancers now, killing indiscriminately.
Doug
In the spring of 2004, I hoped that the young Moktada al-Sadr (being
Arab [i.e., not Persian] and Shiite at the same time) -- Hanna Batatu
spoke well of his papa -- might help bring together Shiites and
Sunnis opposed to the occupation and create some kind of coherent
national liberation front, but he apparently couldn't seize the
moment, and since then things have gone downhill, _way down_.
Yoshie Furuhashi
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