Jan 10, 2005- Newsweek reports that the US Pentagon is considering an El Salvador strategy in Iraq, of forming Iraqi Special Forces units to engage the Iraqi guerrillas. In Central America, this sort of policy produced death squads that killed leftists (and sometimes nuns) indiscriminately.
http://www.juancole.com/2005/01/us-kills-as-many-as-12-innocents-7.html

July 24, 2005- New US Ambassador "Death Squads Negroponte" arrives in Iraq.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2006/1/29/17236/8788

December 13, 2005- Memo reveals death squads run by Iraq Ministry of Interior. "The minister is very upset. He wants to know how such a document slipped out of the ministry."
http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/12/13/iraqi_death_squads/

March 2, 2006- Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior?
http://www.juancole.com/2006/03/kurds-sunnis-attempting-to-dump.html

May 8, 2006- Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Sunday that an officer and 17 other persons had been arrested among the special police commandoes of the ministry and charged with running death squads. This announcement is the first official confirmation that the death squads were being run out of Interior, as many charged.
http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/black-sunday-yields-81-dead-in-iraqi.htm...

Sept 1, 2006- More somber proof of the rise in death squad activity came from the Baghdad Coroner's Office. Their data showed 1,600 bodies arrived there in June and more than 1,800 bodies in July. 90 percent of those deaths were determined to be the result of death squad executions.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=2385120&page=2

Sept 4, 2006- Authorities found 33 bodies of people who had been shot to death, all showing signs of torture, dumped around several neighborhoods in Baghdad, police said. The bodies, all of men, were blindfolded and their feet and hands were tied.
http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/09/04/ap2991574.html

Who is behind the Death Squads in Iraq?