IRAQ: SALVADOR OPTION

ICH: The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq
by John Pilger

The American public is being prepared. If the attack on Iran does come, there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no truth.

Now that al-Zarqawi has been replaced by "sectarian violence" and "civil war", the big news is the attacks by Sunnis on Shia mosques and bazaars. The real news, which is not reported in the CNN "mainstream", is that the Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq. This is the campaign of terror by death squads armed and trained by the US, which attack Sunnis and Shias alike. The goal is the incitement of a real civil war and the break-up of Iraq, the original war aim of Bush's administration.