Laos bombing levels and Death squads

Robert Dreyfuss has a scoop in The American Prospect:

"The Prospect has learned that part of a secret $3 billion in new funds—tucked away in the $87 billion Iraq appropriation that Congress approved in early November—will go toward the creation of a paramilitary unit manned by militiamen associated with former Iraqi exile groups. Experts say it could lead to a wave of extrajudicial killings, not only of armed rebels but of nationalists, other opponents of the U.S. occupation and thousands of civilian Baathists—up to 120,000 of the estimated 2.5 million former Baath Party members in Iraq."

So with this recycled Phoenix assassination program and Cambodian style bombing runs on the terrorists sanctuaries in Syria, Iran and all the other countries bombed during the initial ' liberation'... ( The greatest since Mussolini liberated Abbyssinia? )
countries like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, ' Iraqization' is proceeding apace.

Everything old is new again.