What is "The Salvador Option"?
"The Salvador Option was a term quoted in a 8 January 2005 article in Newsweek[1]. This phrase was used to refer to options then being intensely debated in Pentagon and Iraqi government circles for dealing with the rapidly growing insurgency movement in Iraq, drawing an explicit analogy to the U.S. military involvement in El Salvador, in which quasi-official death squads were instrumental in bringing a decade-long war against FMLN to a close. The article quoted anonymous military insiders, and did not specify the precise origin of the phrase "Salvador Option", or explicitly say that those words were actually used by Pentagon sources.
According to Newsweek:
"...one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of assassination or so-called "snatch" operations, in which the targets are sent to secret facilities for interrogation. The current thinking is that while U.S. Special Forces would lead operations in, say, Syria, activities inside Iraq itself would be carried out by Iraqi paramilitaries."[1]
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has publicly denounced the Newsweek article as "nonsense", when directly asked if such a policy was under consideration, he answered "Why would I even talk about something like that?" [2]. Observers of the Iraqi conflict have taken these and other cues to argue that the "Salvador Option" was put into operation. They point in particular to the existence of a Shi'ite led unit affiliated with the Iraqi ministry known as the Wolf Brigade.[2]"
That was from the Wikipedia.
So what the hell is going on. We suspect this in Iraq at the moment. Is that it. I waned to dig into this after I got tripped off by an Flash web media site called
" cryingwolf".
Check the bugger out man before we go further. If it is not there give me a shout link at the bottom.
"Top secret army cell breaks terrorists; 1:09am GMT 05/02/2007", claims that we British have a 'bit' of experience from the Northern Ireland skirmishes with the Irish. So what they did in NI was got hold of all the terrorists they can find who will turn coat and trained them to go and terrorise the people of NI. Simple reason is, if there is terrorist activities in NI then british Military have to be there to protect the decent people of the country. They become experts in that and infiltrated the Irish Liberation Movement in every possible level. That is well documented.
So after the Iraq invation our boys has been very successful at it in Iraq. They have saved lots of lives by this method as this points out:
"Working alongside the Special Air Service and the American Delta Force as part of the Baghdad-based counter-terrorist unit known as Task Force Black, they have supplied intelligence that has saved hundreds of lives and resulted in some of the most notable successes against the myriad terror groups fighting in Iraq. Only last week, intelligence from the JSG is understood to have led to a series of successful operations against Sunni militia groups in southern Baghdad.
Information obtained by the unit is also understood to have inspired one of the most successful operations carried out by Task Force Black, in November 2005, when SAS snipers shot dead three suicide bombers."
So this "Joint Support Group (JSG)" of the British Army is the best secret weapon we have in Iraq. Americans are at awe of the subject. Well we will come to that point later. The recruitment and running of JSG can be found in the article. So we have our own spies in Iraq.
But can we make them do things like bomb someone else and then of course if that person is a liability we can kill them without recourse. Is UK's Sunday Telegraph a right wing war mongering media outlet? You decide. Neil Mackay Home Affairs Editor (Sunday Herald) on Nov 19 2000 wrote about the JSG in an article called 'My unit conspired in the murder of civilians in Ireland'.
So JSG was known as Force Research Unit or FRU. That was in NI back in between 1987 and 1991, and was commanded by Brigadier Gordon Kerr. By Nov 19 2000 he was in Beijing as the British military attaché. Hang on this is getting a bit spooky as this guy was investigated on killings of Irish civilians by Sir John Stevens, Scotland Yard Commissioner. Kerr was suspected in carrying out an arson attack on Stephen's digs in NI. This part of the scene is very nicely hidden by the British Gov. Psst....don't talk about it.
Well from the article you can see that there was "institutionalised collusion" between the security forces and loyalist terrorists and Kerr was involved in it. As it says:
"According to the FRU source, there was an unbroken chain of command running from the handlers, to Kerr, then through to the military top brass in Ulster, on to the Ministry of Defence Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and finally the Prime Minister. At the time of Finucane's death George Younger was Secretary of State for Defence, Tom King was Ulster Secretary, Thatcher was Prime Minister and General Sir John Waters was the general officer commanding in Northern Ireland.
"It is rubbish to suggest that we were mavericks,"
the FRU source said.
"What was happening may have been occurring outside the law but the establishment knew what was happening.""
This article is not looking at the bright side of spookyness init? But now we can see a bit of the shady side. So according to 'Exposing Gordon Kerr and Tony Blair’s secret army', where do you think Brig Kerr is now or atleast in 7 April 2007. Iraq. He is in charge of Joint Support Group (JSG) and Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), working alongside US covert forces in the aptly named “Task Force Black”.
"In July 2005, the SRR was involved in the surveillance operation which led to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station in London.
SRR officers were apparently engaged in “low-level intelligence behind the scenes” when Jean Charles was shot. According to the “military sources”, this was the first time the new regiment had been engaged in an operation.
In December that year two British soldiers in the SRR were arrested by police in Iraq.
Who were the two men and what were they doing when they were seized outside al-Jamiat police station in Basra?
What prompted British soldiers to smash down the wall of the station and demolish several buildings inside the compound in the operation to snatch them back?
At the request of the MoD, the British media obscured the faces of the two captured men (pictured above).
They had been sitting in a car outside the police station in Arabic dress. They were heavily armed and had an impressive array of surveillance equipment with them.
It was claimed at the time that the two undercover men had opened fire when they were stopped at a police roadblock, killing at least one police officer. They were part of the Britain’s undercover war in Iraq."
"Quote:
THERE’S a phrase set aside in the British army for men like Brigadier Gordon Kerr and it’s “Green Slime’’. Soldiers don’t mince words, and to regular squaddies and military brass, Kerr and his Intelligence Corps are on roughly the same level as pond life. Highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond life nevertheless. "
The Anglo-American Dirty War in Iraq
So we have a bit of the UK involvement in this issue. Who are the players from Iraq. I mean 'free' Iraq. 13 November 2005 the world woke up to the news of Jadiriyah detention facility in Baghdad, which had become a virtual byword for medieval torture chamber. Around 15 Decemeber 2003 "the Bush administration was planning to stand up a special forces group (Task Force 121), whose highest priority would be the ‘neutralisation’ of Baathist ‘insurgents’ by capture or assassination, specifically targeting what was referred to as the ‘broad middle’ of the Baathist underground." And around 5 November 2003, Paul Bremmer had agreed with the Iraqi Governing Council to the establishment of an 800-strong Iraqi paramilitary unit, whose operatives were to be drawn from former security forces personnel and members of the armed wings of the five main opposition (exile) parties. March 2004 there was a militia organisation known as ‘Black Flag’, which was able to openly patrol on a main street in Baghdad’s Adhamiya district. The group’s banner incorporated the sword of Shiite founding saint Imam Ali, but, when interviewed, militiamen claimed the group’s 5000 members included Sunni Arabs and Kurds. The group witnessed by IWPR had in its possession a list of 21 suspects, mostly belonging to two prominent Sunni tribes.
So after successfully trying out various paramilitaries in Iraq the government was 'handed over' to the Iraqs in 2005. The Interoor Ministry is in control of the Special Investigations Unit.
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