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Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Another day in Barbarian-land.
The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a counterinsurgency program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War.
The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) insurgency. The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill suspected VC, and terrorize and capture civilians who were thought to have information on VC activities. These civilians were then taken to the interrogation centers where they were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area.[1] Few of the prisoners survived -- most of them were tortured to death, and those that survived the torture sessions were generally killed afterwards.[2] The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions.[1]
The program was in operation between 1965 and 1972, and similar efforts existed both before and after that period. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had "neutralized" 81,740 suspected NLF supporters, of whom 26,369 were killed.[3]
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Torture
A Viet Cong prisoner awaiting interrogation by U.S. troops, following the Tet Offensive of 1968
Common methods of torture used at the interrogation centers included:
"Rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock ('the Bell Telephone Hour') rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the 'water treatment'; the 'airplane' in which the prisoner's arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners."[9]
Military intelligence officer K. Milton Osborne witnessed the following use of torture:
"The use of the insertion of the 6-inch dowel into the canal of one of my detainee's ears, and the tapping through the brain until dead. The starvation to death (in a cage), of a Vietnamese woman who was suspected of being part of the local political education cadre in one of the local villages ... The use of electronic gear such as sealed telephones attached to ... both the women's vaginas and men's testicles [to] shock them into submission."[10]
Targeted killings
Lieutenant Vincent Okamoto, an intelligence-liaison officer for the Phoenix Program for two months in 1968 and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross said the following:[11][12]
“ The problem was, how do you find the people on the blacklist? It's not like you had their address and telephone number. The normal procedure would be to go into a village and just grab someone and say, 'Where's Nguyen so-and-so?' Half the time the people were so afraid they would not say anything. Then a Phoenix team would take the informant, put a sandbag over his head, poke out two holes so he could see, put commo wire around his neck like a long leash, and walk him through the village and say, 'When we go by Nguyen's house scratch your head.' Then that night Phoenix would come back, knock on the door, and say, 'April Fool, mother#er.' Whoever answered the door would get wasted. As far as they were concerned whoever answered was a Communist, including family members. Sometimes they'd come back to camp with ears to prove that they killed people.
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After Phoenix Program abuses began receiving negative publicity, the program was officially shut down. However, another program of a similar nature, code-named "F-6", was initiated as Phoenix was phased out.
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor, Portuguese: Operação Condor), was a campaign of political repression and terror involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate alleged socialist and communist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the participating governments.[1]
Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. It is estimated that a minimum of 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor,[2] possibly more.[3][4][5] Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. The United States provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants until at least 1978, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.[6]
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
All nice and good...
No comment on THESE beheadings?
I know from your posting history that you have a woody against the US/West by pointing out the faults of others [Which it should but] while ignoring these heinous action seems like a pretty obvious ploy....
Just an observation
On-Topic...
AND Still some here support these guys.
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate and why the majority do not support the return of the Taliban to power. They also want the US/West out as well. The average Afghans are stuck between a rock and hard place.edit on 31-8-2012 by SLAYER69 because: (no reason given)
A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, his severed head placed near his body to send a warning to police, said provincial governor spokesman[american puppet] Jawid Faisal.
The brother of the boy, neither of whom were named by officials, was a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a U.S.-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban strongholds, like Kandahar, feel more secure[lol, good job], Faisal said.
"It's a Taliban warning to the ALP and to others who support the government," Faisal [self-servicingly]said of the killing, which happened in Kandahar's Panjwai district.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf denied the group was involved.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate
Separately, a 6-year-old girl was beheaded in eastern Kapisa province on Thursday, said provincial police chief Abdul Hamed.
"We are not sure if she was beheaded by her family or the Taliban, but we know the Taliban control the area," Hamed said of the killing in Jalukhil village. He added that he could not send investigators to the area out of fears for their safety.
The murders follow the shooting or beheading of 17 young revelers attending a party in southern Helmand province this week, which officials said[how convinient] was the work of the Taliban, a charge the group also denied.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
All nice and good...
No comment on THESE beheadings?
I know from your posting history that you have a woody against the US/West by pointing out the faults of others [Which it should but] while ignoring these heinous action seems like a pretty obvious ploy....
Just an observation
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by all2human
Beheaded a couple of KIDS to "send a message" to the POLICE?
Chicken-# sons of bitches. What happened to the good old days when a man would engage the guys he was pissed off at? Oh, right... that doesn't apply when cowardice is at play....
So who wants to "negotiate" with the Taliban again? I GOT yer damned "negotiation"... it's hangin' right here..
Chicken-# sons of bitches.
Originally posted by sonnny1
Another sign, that humanity will NEVER change.
Sad.
This is the type of action that many Afghans themselves hate and why the majority do not support the return of the Taliban to power. They also want the US/West out as well. The average Afghans are stuck between a rock and hard place.
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by Ophiuchus 13
Well, I pray for a quicker response time, on the separation bit..........
Tired of all the hate.
Peace.
Originally posted by nenothtu
reply to post by all2human
Beheaded a couple of KIDS to "send a message" to the POLICE?
Chicken-# sons of bitches. What happened to the good old days when a man would engage the guys he was pissed off at? Oh, right... that doesn't apply when cowardice is at play....
Originally posted by jcarpenter
Ah ..... like the chicken# cowardice at play when missile drones slaughter civilians wholesale? Or would that be the chicken# cowardice involved in contaminating large swaths of the middle east with DU? Or could it be the chicken# cowardice involved in NorthCom's massive "wargames" over American cities?
It sounds to me like you are a victim of our USDA Grade A propaganda.