Report: Israel trains US killing squads in Iraq

By: Nabil Raza

LONDON: Britain's Guardian daily reported in its Tuesday editions that Israeli consultants are helping train US Special Forces in counter-insurgency operations in Iraq including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders.

American Special Forces teams were already behind the lines inside Syria attempting to kill foreign extremists before they cross the border with Iraq, the report said.

An ex-senior US intelligence official told Guardian that he feared the new tactics and enhanced collaboration with Israel would arouse an unstable situation in the Middle East.

Quoting American intelligence and military sources, the report said the Israeli Defense Force had dispatched urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US Special Forces, and that Israeli military consultants had also visited Iraq.

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