US-backed militias

I took the following stills from a video that was filmed by a member of the US-backed Iraqi armed forces. The video shows how the sectarian Iraqi armed forces torture and execute unarmed Iraqis then burn their bodies. This attack took place in Suq Al-Shyukh in Thi Qar province in southern Iraq, and was referred to by Muqtada Al-Sadr in a letter dated April, 21st, 2008.

The Iraqi police, army, interior ministry forces, and other US backed forces are nothing more than nice titles for militias that happened to be called "governmental". The Sunnis and Shiites allied with the US get to have their militias treated as "good militias" with governmental titles, but the other Sunnis and Shiites who represent the majority of Iraqis and oppose the occupation are the ones with "bad militias" that are described as terrorists and extremists.

special forces

ministry of interior and Iraqi army

police


national guards


militiamen with civilian outfits


dragging unarmed Iraqis


terrifying them


beating them up


torturing them


executing them

adding them to the pile of other murdered Iraqis


then dragging more unarmed men

and adding them to the pile

then burning their bodies

The U.S. role in training Iraqi armed forces is doing is very similar to the U.S. role in the school of the Americas training Latin American forces to go back home and kill their own people.

If you disapprove the U.S. role in training, funding, arming, and protecting Iraqi puppet armed forces contact your congress person today and ask them to stop funding this disaster. The congress has approved billions of dollars of US-taxpayers money to fund these sectarian militias who are directly responsible of the ethnic and sectarian cleansing that has been taking place in Iraq during the last 5 years.