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DEATH SQUADS--THEY'RE BACK!

January 31, 2005 issue

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Mentions a "Newsweek" report about Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Details of "the Salvador option" and the use of paramilitary squads to assist the Pentagon and Iraqi militia units; Reference to US policy under the Reagan Administration in the 1980s which supported the El Salvador military that relied on death squads, which killed civilians including Archbishop Oscar Romero; Indication that Elliott Abrams who was a State Department official in the 1980s is now working in the White House.

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DEATH squads; COUNTERINSURGENCY; ABRAMS, Elliott; UNITED States -- Military policy; IRAQ; UNITED States; EL Salvador
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