In devising a strategy to defeat Iraq’s insurgents, the Pentagon may be gaining the upper hand but at the cost of pushing Iraq toward civil war. A report by the Wall Street Journal from Feb. 16 revealed that “pop-up militias” are proliferating in Iraq. Not only is the U.S. aware of these illegal militias, but the Pentagon is arming, training and funding them for use them in counter-insurgency operations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8628.htm


Iraq's Bootstrap Battalions :

There’s something new on the ground in Iraq. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Greg Jaffe reports that in the fall of 2004, privately funded militias connected to key political figures in Iraq began popping up around the country as Iraq’s elections approached.
http://www.dailypundit.com/newarchives/2005/02/iraqs_bootstrap_1.php


From Information Clearing House


U.S. Funding Iraqi Militias Led by Baathists As Part of Counter-Insurgency Operation:

Most disturbing, one militia in particular – the “special police commandos” – is being used throughout Iraq and has been singled out by a U.S. general as conducting death squad strikes known as the “Salvador option.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8630.htm