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Consortium News
January 30, 2018
In 2009, when former West Point history professor Colonel Gregory Daddis was deployed to Iraq as the command historian for the Multinational Corps — the military's primary tactical headquarters — he noted that corps commander Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby had assigned a professional readingÃâà...
Voltaire Network
January 23, 2018
In reality, President Trump's special representative to the Coalition, Brett McGurk, was the lawyer who participated, alongside John Negroponte and Colonel James Steele, in the creation of the Islamic Emirate in Iraq in 2006. With Colonel James Coffman, he was tasked with giving President George BushÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
November 21, 2017
KCNA picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking during the Second Plenum of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, in this undated photo released byÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 18, 2017
After training by James Steele's Special Police Training Teams, each Iraqi Special Police unit worked closely with a U.S. Special Police Transition .... Colonel Jeffrey Buchanan, who headed a Special Police Transition Team in Iraq at the time of the exposure of the Al Jadiriyah torture prison in 2005, hasÃâà...
The Canary
August 8, 2016
A major mythology of the 2003 Iraq War, perpetuated by the Chilcot report, is that the US and British genuinely wanted to remove Saddam Hussein to install a ... A majority of its officers and personnel formerly served in Saddam Hussein's special forces and Republican Guard – they were veterans of killings,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
January 18, 2014
There is also hardly any mention of the Iraqi Special Forces inherited from the occupation, especially trained by Colonel James Steele under US ambassador John Negroponte and attached now directly to al-Maliki's office. Above all, there is no mention of the plethora of foreign-led special operation agents,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 5, 2013
Colonel James Coffman, another special forces veteran drafted in to oversee the operation, describes himself as Petraeus' "eyes and ears out on the ground" ... Our investigation uncovered how a retired US Colonel, James Steele, was overseeing Pentagon-backed death squads that tortured detainees forÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 9, 2013
The hour-long film explores the arc of American counterinsurgency brutality from Vietnam to Iraq, with stops along the way in El Salvador and Nicaragua. James Steele is now a retired U.S. colonel who first served in Vietnam as a company commander in 1968-69. He later made his reputation as a militaryÃâà...
RT
April 8, 2013
James Steele, who came out of retirement in 2003 after guiding US-backed commandos in El Salvador in the 1980s, was deployed to Iraq as an “energy ... With the help of Col. James Coffman, another Special Forces operative, he freely dispatched Shia militias to torture Saddam Hussein's Sunni soldiers inÃâà...
Consortium News
April 7, 2013
The hour-long film explores the arc of American counterinsurgency brutality from Vietnam to Iraq, with stops along the way in El Salvador and Nicaragua. James Steele is now a retired U.S. colonel who first served in Vietnam as a company commander in 1968-69. He later made his reputation as a militaryÃâà...
ABC Online
April 2, 2013
The program profiles Colonel James Steele, a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was picked by US Defence Secretary Donald ... "And while this interview was going on with a Saudi jihadi with Jim Steele also in the room, there were these terrible screams, somebody shouting: 'Allah, Allah,Ãâà...
Democracy Now
March 22, 2013
We play extended excerpts of “James Steele: America's Mystery Man in Iraq,” which exposes the role the retired U.S. colonel James Steele, a veteran of ... “As you know, the issue surrounding accusation of abuse and torture of Iraqi detainees is a complex one that is full of history and emotion,” said Col.
The Real News Network
March 17, 2013
Maggie O'Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. ... A new investigative documentary by The Guardian and BBC tells a story of one Colonel James Steele, a veteran of the Latin American Dirty War and the Vietnam War and his involvement inÃâà...
CounterPunch
March 13, 2013
For over a year the Guardian has been trying to contact (Retired Colonel Jim) Steele, 68, to ask him about his role during the Iraq war as US defence ... says: “I first heard about Colonel James Steele going to Iraq and I said they're going to implement what is known as the Salvadoran Option in Iraq and that'sÃâà...
Huffington Post
March 7, 2013
The Guardian article and video, and earlier reporting by Gareth Porter, reveal that two Americans, James Steele and Colonel James Coffman, created commando units and ... More importantly for Iraq was the way these torture and death squads fueled the sectarian war that was just brewing in 2003-04.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 4, 2013
Col James Steele. Steele, whose title in Baghdad was Counselor for Iraqi Security Forces supervised the selection and training of members of the Badr Organization and Mehdi Army, the two largest Shi'ite militias in Iraq, in order to target the leadership and support networks of a primarily Sunni resistance.
