"Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration's battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras...."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek

Here's a good piece from a government news organ. About a year and a half old. The death squads are up and running now in Iraq. They pulled Negroponte out of mothballs and gave him a job in Iraq doing what he does best (death squads), then they put him in charge of our CIA (after the "rules" were change to allow the CIA to operate against American citizens). So look for a death squad in YOUR neighborhood soon.