MSNBC - ‘The Salvador Option’ The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq

MSNBC - ‘The Salvador Option’:

"Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called 'the Salvador option'...

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...)"