The Pentagon dispatched a shadowy veteran of their 'dirty wars' in 1980s Central America to train the sectarian militia units in Iraq that allegedly tortured and killed tens of thousands of people. Colonel James Steele, a 58-year-old veteran special forces retiree was sent by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 to utilize his expertise in counter-insurgency a special investigation by The Guardian newspaper of the UK claims. Accompanying Steele, who worked as an advisor in El Salvador's bloody civil war of the 1980s was retired Colonel James H. Coffman, who reported directly to former CIA director and retired General David Petraeus.
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General David Petraeus was the direct senior of Colonel James H. Coffman - who helped to train Special Police Commando (SPC) units in Iraq
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Witnesses claim in a UK newspaper report that Petraeus and or Coffman either saw or knew about the deadly daily torture of detainees who were in SPC custody
Apparently, the investigation uncovered no evidence at all that Steele or @placeholder tortured prisoners themselves, but still claims they were present at detention centers where it happened.