Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres. Link to video: James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war. Blogs - Adam Curtis - HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT. New Texts Out Now: Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Laleh Khalili (LK): In the course of completing my first book, I was performing some final interviews with Palestinian residents in Lebanon who had been detainees in Israel at various points over the last couple of decades.