by Scott Creighton
The consequence of not mentioning the connection between the US and the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade militia, the US-backed Wolf Brigade and other Special Police Commando units, or the extent of American recruitment, training, command, and control of these units[19] distorted perceptions of events in Iraq, creating the impression of senseless violence initiated by the Iraqis themselves and concealing the American hand in the planning and execution of the most savage forms of violence. Dirk Adriaensens, Brussels Tribunal
The fervor over the fake “burning man” video is laughable to the point of tears. It’s ridiculous actually when you put that one guy acting in a movie pretending to be about to die, in context of what our secret warriors have really done to millions of civilians over the past few decades. What our secret warriors, our “freedom fighters”, are STILL doing in Iraq as we speak.
Today, the New York Times had to shed a tiny bit of light on the reality creeping out of occupied Iraq and that reality is… yes, our puppet regime has unleashed organized death squads (just like I wrote about nearly a year ago and again in Aug.) on the population of their country who happen to opposed the corrupt, brutal government we installed.
Of course, the New York Times, the sickening subservient sycophants to global power structures that they are, had to present these monsters in the kindest, most endearing light they could muster. This is the new face of the old death squads of the Iraq Salvador Option under President Peace Prize’s administration, so of course, the Times had to present them like Bill Clinton playing a sax on Saturday Night Live.
This is how the New York Times presents death squads in Iraq
That’s how the New York Times pictured the Iraqi death-squads, known for be-headings, kidnappings, burning people alive… all because they support a group of folks dedicated to kicking our puppets and our BUSINESSES out of their country, or the General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries (not “ISIS”). The dancing smiling, butt-shaking government sponsored death-squads of Iraq. But the truth will out, and that is something even the Times can’t avoid.
At their victory rally, the Shiite militiamen used poetry, song and swagger to sweeten their celebration of an ugly battle.
More than a hundred fighters from the militia, the Badr Organization, had been killed in the farms and villages of Diyala Province in recent fighting against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State. During the battle, thousands of residents had been forced from their homes — including Sunni families who accused Shiite paramilitary groups like Badr of forced displacement and summary executions…
Collaborators were worse than the terrorists, he said, warning, “Their punishment will be more severe than Daesh’s.”
Fears of retaliation by the militias in Diyala grew last month after residents of the Sunni-majority village of Barwanah accused Shiite militiamen of executing 72 people. Mr. Ameri and other Badr officials have denied that their fighters were responsible, even as they have promised to clamp down on abuses. New York Times
This particular group of death-squad members is called the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps or the Badr Organization most recently. They are Shia and have been supporting the occupying forces from the U.S. since very early on by way of doing the kinds of terrible things our military leaders wouldn’t want to ask of our soldiers.
Because of their opposition to Saddam Hussein, the Badr Brigade was seen as a U.S. asset in the fight against Baathist partisans. After the fall of Baghdad, Badr forces reportedly joined the newly reconstituted army, police and Interior Ministry in significant numbers. The Interior Ministry was controlled by SCIRI and many Badr members became part of the Interior Ministry run Wolf Brigade. The Iraqi Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, was a former leader of Badr Brigade militia.
In 2006 the United Nations human rights chief in Iraq, John Pace, said that hundreds of Iraqis were being tortured to death or executed by the Interior Ministry under SCIRI’s control.[5] According to a 2006 report by the Independent newspaper:
‘Mr Pace said the Ministry of the Interior was “acting as a rogue element within the government”. It is controlled by the main Shia party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri); the Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, is a former leader of Sciri’s Badr Brigade militia, which is one of the main groups accused of carrying out sectarian killings. Another is the Mehdi Army of the young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who is part of the Shia coalition seeking to form a government after winning the mid-December election. Many of the 110,000 policemen and police commandos under the ministry’s control are suspected of being former members of the Badr Brigade. Not only counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade, the Scorpions and the Tigers, but the commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as death squads.
The paramilitary commandos, dressed in garish camouflage uniforms and driving around in pick-up trucks, are dreaded in Sunni neighbourhoods. People whom they have openly arrested have frequently been found dead several days later, with their bodies bearing obvious marks of torture. Wiki
This particular dancing group of smiling monsters has a long, long history of killing Iraqis… not just Iraqis, but, perhaps ironically, Iraqi pilots as well.
PILOTS YOU SAY?
Yes, pilots.
In April 2005 Bayan Jabr was made Interior Minister after which he immediately began recruiting members of the Badr Brigade into the security forces. Many of those militiamen went into the commandos such as the Wolf, Volcano and Scorpion Brigades. Those units and others under the militia were accused of a number of abuses. In August, the Volcano Brigade took away 36 Sunnis from Baghdad and tortured and killed them before dumping their bodies. In November, a U.S. military unit found a prison in Jadriya, Baghdad with 173 people in it, many with signs of torture. The Secret Investigative Unit ran the facility under the direct command of Minister Jabr. In February 2006, 18 police commandos were caught running a kidnapping ring. The commander of the unit said that he was acting under orders from senior officials in Badr that gave him names of people to abduct. Jabr was eventually pushed out of office in May 2006 under U.S. pressure, and transferred to the Finance Ministry. It would take years to purge and re-train the Badr elements that Jabr brought into the ministry.
Besides its own agenda, Badr continued to work with the Iranians to carry out a number of targeted killings throughout Iraq. In October 2004, the head of Iraq’s national intelligence agency accused the militia of killing ten of his men on orders from Tehran. The agency raided three safe houses and claimed to have found documents linking Iranian agents to Badr members who were carrying out the assassinations. At the time, the intelligence service was staffed by former regime elements, and directed by the CIA, which were both seen as threats by Iran. After the January 2005 elections, there was a wave of murders of former Baathists. There were reports that hit lists were being circulated of party members to kill. Members of Saddam’s intelligence agency and armed forces were also being targeted. For instance, there was a wave of hits against former air force pilots who were veterans of the Iran-Iraq War. Most of these attacks were pinned on the Badr Brigade. Musings On Iraq
But the Badr Brigade didn’t limit their scope to just attacking armed insurgents, politicians or pilots. That is too costly for them and not really the point of the Salvador Option. That’s terror. Inflicting terror on the population as opposed to the opposition because it’s a soft target.
That is the Badr Brigade’s real history. The history that caused them to be listed in many countries as a terrorist organization.
The purpose of dirty war is not to identify and then detain or kill actual resistance fighters. The target of dirty war is the civilian population. It is a strategy of state terrorism and collective punishment against an entire population with the objective to terrorizing it into submission. It is a strategy to cut off the people’s links with the resistance and break the popular support for the guerrilla. The same tactics used in Central America and Colombia were exported to Iraq. Even the architects of these dirty wars in El Salvador (Ambassador John Negroponte and James Steele) and in Colombia (Steven Casteel) were transferred to Iraq to do the same dirty work. They recruited, trained and deployed the notorious “Special Police Commandos”, in which later, in 2006, death squads like the Badr Brigades and other militias were incorporated. US forces set up a high-tech operations centre for the Special Police Commandos at an “undisclosed location” in Iraq. American technicians installed satellite telephones and computers with uplinks to the Internet and US forces Networks. The command centre had direct connections to the Iraqi Interior Ministry and to every US forward operating base in the country.[12]
As the atrocities by these forces in Iraq made the news in 2005, Casteel would play a critical role in blaming extrajudicial killings on “insurgents” with stolen police uniforms, vehicles and weapons. He and General Petraeus also claimed that torture centres were run by rogue elements of the Interior Ministry, even as accounts came to light of torture taking place inside the ministry headquarters where he and other Americans worked. US advisers to the Interior Ministry had their offices on the 8th floor, directly above a jail on the 7th floor where torture was taking place.[13]
The uncritical attitude of the Western media to American officials’ narratives prevented worldwide protests over the massive escalation of the counterinsurgency war in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, consistent with a disguised, quiet, media-free approach, typical for counterinsurgency operations. General Downing, the former head of US Special Forces, said on NBC in January 2005: “This is under control of the US forces, of the current Interim Iraqi government. There’s no need to think that we’re going to have any kind of killing campaign that’s going to maim innocent civilians.”[14] Within months, Iraq was swept by exactly such a killing campaign, which has led to arbitrary detention, torture, extra-judicial executions and the mass exodus and internal displacement of millions. Thousands of Iraqis disappeared during the worst days of this dirty war between 2005 and 2007. Many were seen picked up by uniformed militias[15] and piled into lorries, others simply seemed to vanish. Interior Ministry death squads moved unhindered through American as well as Iraqi checkpoints as they detained, tortured and killed thousands of people. Dirk Adriaensens, Brussels Tribunal
Yes ladies and gentlemen, the dancing, laughing butt-shaking Iraqi death-squads of the Badr Brigade, pictured up there in that lovely tribute from the New York Times, are some of the worst human being in Iraq these days.
I promise you, the atrocities laid at the feet of ‘ISIS’ were actually perpetrated by the very people we are sending money and weapons and intelligence to assist.
As it just so happens, our puppet regime in Iraq has recently asked another Middle Eastern nation to remove the Badr Brigade from their list of international terrorists.
Iraq has asked the Emirati government to remove an influential Shi’ite political party and its militia from its list of terrorist organizations.
Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday, Iraq’s minister for human rights, Mohammed Mahdi Al-Bayati, said that the Iraqi government had asked Abu Dhabi to reconsider its decision to blacklist the Badr Organization led by Iraq’s former transport minister Hadi Al-Ameri. al-Awsat, Feb. 2, 2015
I guess it wouldn’t do to have their official state terrorists viewed as terrorists by the rest of the world. Gosh knows the New York Times is doing their part to help white-wash their image.
Just for the fun of it, here is a picture of the old interior ministry death-squads, Police Commando Units, as they typically looked back in the day.
Iraqi police commandos or “death-squads” for short
And here is a picture of Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being captured, supposedly by “ISIS”
Small
world, ain’t it? Yep. It's the same guys.
Just like they did during the Bush administration, the New York Times and the main stream media in general are putting a happy, smiling, dancing, butt-shaking face on some of the most vile human beings on the planet and they are doing so in this case because it is very important to the masters of the universe that they don’t loose the grip on that Iraqi brass ring they grabbed while Dick Cheney was in office and the first Salvador Option in Iraq was quietly slaughtering thousands of innocent people.
Today, it’s just another day for the soulless scribes at the New York Times.
And as horrible as this reality is, it’s just another day at the office for me as well.
Have a good Sunday folks. Be kind to someone.
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