Death squads in Iraq?

[hedgehog]

Why am I hearing about this in a panel from a Tom Tomorrow cartoon in another posting? Presumably this means the US is taking out Iraquis we don't like. Acc'd to the Tom Tommorow cartton, the story ran in the New York Times November 29. Were we all in a coma that day or what?

[ret5hd]

1. some of us have been saying it ever since Negroponte was assigned there.

that's his job. that's what he does.

[ugarte]

2. Why the question mark?...nt

[hedgehog]

3. Because this is the first I time I heard it confirmed.

We've gone so far downhill that the story didn't penetrate. It's one thing to speculate about Negroponte. It's another thing to have the story emerge to a round of shrugs.

[me b zola]

4. The first indication, that I am aware of

Was when the rw reporter was killed several months ago by a death squad in Iraq. The news kind of dribbles out.