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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

It is alleged he granted two friends astonishing access to top secret files as he ran the Afghan surge. Rajiv Chandrasekaran reveals how the volunteers won big donations from defence firms and how they pushed the army towards a far more aggressive strategy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33395.htm



US special forces veteran links General Petraeus to torture in Iraq - Video

A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq.

http://is.gd/TWxnhm

From Information Clearing House

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Petraeus and the Mythology of Afghanistan

Gareth Porter, Truthout: Managing the ''war of perceptions'' in Afghanistan ultimately proved more difficult for David Petraeus than it had in Iraq.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13442-believing-his-own-myth-petraeus-in-afghanistan



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