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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (26799)	5/8/2004 11:33:48 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985 during which he oversaw a ten-fold increase in staff and an embassy that housed one of the largest CIA deployments in all of Latin America. He lied to Congress about his knowledge of the infamous Battalion 316 death squad, and managed illegal aid to the Contras fighting the Nicaraguan government in direct contravention of Congress' ban. ---- * John Negroponte worked closely with General Alvarez, Chief of the Armed Forces in Honduras, to enable the training of Honduran soldiers in psychological warfare, sabotage, and many types of human rights violations, including torture and kidnapping. Honduran and Salvadoran military were sent to the School of the Americas to receive training in counter-insurgency directed against people of their own country. The CIA created the infamous Honduran Intelligence Battalion 3-16 that was responsible for the murder of many Sandinistas. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was a founder and commander of Battalion 3-16. In 1982, the U.S. negotiated access to airfields in Honduras and established a regional military training center for Central American forces, principally directed at improving fighting forces of the Salvadoran military. You would think that the Administration would avoid nominating an individual with that track record as Ambassador to Iraq. The Iraqi and Arab press is certainly going to publish that background. Yet, another stroke of stupidity to lose the hearts and minds of Arabs. Perhaps they could assign Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski as his deputy for military affairs. jttmab