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|laterwork= May 1995 President and CEO of Mosbacher Power Group 1998 President and CEO of TM Power Ventures CEO of Buchanan Renewables〔 }} }} Colonel James Steele is a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America, during which he trained counter-insurgency commandos who carried out extreme abuses of human rights. Steele is also a veteran of the Vietnam war. From 1984 to 1986, during the Salvadoran Civil War, Steele operated as a counterinsurgency specialist and was a member of a group of United States special forces advisers to the Salvadoran Army. In 1986 he was implicated in the Iran contra affair. In 2004, early in the Iraq War, Steele was sent by Donald Rumsfeld to serve as a civilian adviser to Iraqi paramilitary Special Police Commandos known as the Wolf Brigade. ==Iraq war counter-insurgency activities== In 2004, during the US occupation of Iraq, Steele was sent as a civilian adviser to train the Special Police Commandos; a paramilitary unit known as the Wolf Brigade that was later accused by a UN official of torture and murder, and which was also implicated in the use of death squads.〔Buncombe, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn. ("Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war" ), ''The Independent''. February 26, 2006〕〔 〕〔 〕 The Wolf Brigade was created and supported by the US and it enabled the redeployment of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard but with the new task of terrorising those connected with the Iraqi insurgency.〔 〕 This was part of the US drive to use "dirty tactics" against insurgents in Iraq, a counterinsurgency doctrine known as "fighting terror with terror," and one that had previously been exercised by the US in other theaters, including Vietnam and El Salvador.〔Snodgrass Godoy, Angelina (2006), ''Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, And Law in Latin America,'' Stanford University Press, pp. 175-180, (ISBN 978-0804753838).〕 Steele worked closely with Colonel James Coffman, an American Army officer who advised Iraqi Special Police Commandos during Multi-National Security Transition Command operations, and who has also been implicated in human rights abuses of Iraqi detainees.〔 〕 Coffman reported directly to General David Petraeus and worked alongside Steele in detention centers that were set up with US funding.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Military.com ) 〕 Steele was mentioned by US Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others, and was present in various high-profile meetings while keeping a secret role. In 2013, The Guardian and the BBC revealed Steele's connection to torture centres which sprang up after US led Shia groups joined the security forces.〔Mahmood, Mona and Maggie O'Kane, Chavala Madlena, Teresa Smith. ("Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres" ), ''The Guardian''. March 6, 2013.〕 According to that report, "Jim" Steele's first experience of war was in Vietnam. Later, from 1984 to 1986, "Steele – a 'counterinsurgency specialist' – was head of the US MilGroup of US special forces advisers to front line battalions of the Salvadoran military, which developed a fearsome international reputation for its death-squad activities." He later "became involved in the Iran-Contra affair, which saw the proceeds from covert arms sales by senior US officials to Iran used to fund the Contras". The Guardian writes, "Soon after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, now retired Colonel James Steele was in Baghdad as one of the White House's most important agents, sending back reports to Donald Rumsfeld and acting as the US defense secretary's personal envoy to Iraq's Special Police Commandos, whose intelligence-gathering activities he oversaw."〔 〕 General Muntadher al-Samari, Iraqi interior ministry commander from 2003–05, revealed the US role in torture carried out by the Special Commandos' interrogation units, claiming that Steele and his colleague Col. James H. Coffman, Jr. knew exactly what was being done. Al-Samari described "the ugliest sorts of torture" he had ever seen, which included the severe beating and hanging of detainees, as well the pulling off of their fingernails. The Guardian report also claimed that the US backing of sectarian paramilitary units helped create conditions that led to sectarian civil war.〔Deutsche Press Agentur. ("Report: US advisers in Iraq linked to torture centers" ), ''Stars and Stripes''. March 7, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Steele (US Colonel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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