It appears evident that when the CIA finds a method or system that works, they use it over and over again. This seems particularly true of their use of assassination squads to terrorize the citizens of a particular country. They use the Phoenix Program to eliminate any perceived government detractors within any country they happen to have an interest in.
They have systematically worked their way around the globe bringing destruction and torture everywhere they go. They install paid snitch programs turning neighbor against neighbor. They create death squads who rape, torture, and kill the inhabitants of the land they invade. Dirty Wars is a film that documents the journey of Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he investigates the killing of villagers in Afghanistan. Here is a description of the documentary:
"Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens."
Currently there are approximately 10,000 troops in Afghanistan and 30,000 military contractors (mercenaries). Military contractors are not held to the same standard as military personnel. Some believe the use of contractors is done to circumnavigate policy and law prohibiting certain types of behavior by troops. It is likely then, that these 30,000 contractors are the Death Squads. They perform the work the American military are prohibited from engaging in. As the Phoenix Program is a CIA operation, they are likely generating the lists from intelligence collected, disseminating the information to the Death Squads and tracking the results. CIA analysts crunch the numbers and produce effectiveness reports.
Similar to the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, there are computer generated death lists and death squads that go on missions every night to find the people on those lists. Those captured are detained without charge, tortured, killed, and raped, simply for meeting criteria that placed them on a computer generated list. The connotation is that they are somehow aiding terrorists. But that allegation neither needs to be proved nor need be accurate. Still others on the list are there because a neighbor made a report. There is paid snitch system (similar to the East German Stasi program) where informants are paid for "Tips." This was a common practice in Vietnam. However, the system was abused by profiteers and people with grudges. People were fingered by neighbors and relatives for inclusion of the Death Squad's lists for reasons unrelated to being communist sympathizers.
The desired effect is to eliminate the support structure at the grassroots level. Hearts and minds.
The actual effect is criminal organizations and people with grudges use the system for their own purposes.
The bad news is the Phoenix Program has come home to the U.S. There are many thousands of citizens claiming to be targeted by the U.S. government. Electronic torture and community involvement are common claims of these victims. Some victims claim their torturer is the Department of Homeland Security and that local police, their community, and other government agencies are participating. Sound familiar?
Expose the New Phoenix Program and end the suffering of millions of people.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2532528/
ADDENDUM
Here is a recent NYT article that corroborates some of the claims made here. As it is a mainstream news source, one expects the article to tow the party line (no mention of the brutal techniques used to gather information). However, it is clear the Phoenix Program is alive and well in Afghanistan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/world/asia/cia-expanding-taliban-fight-afghanistan.html
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