Who is assassinating Iraqi academics?
Extra-judicial assassination, by nature, is difficult to pin down. It is also dangerous to investigate or even report. The existence of pro-puppet government paramilitary death squads is an established fact. The strong suggestion from the broad community of Iraqi academics is that these forces are conducting the majority of assassinations of anti-occupation academics, educators and intellectuals. The existence of lawless US-outsourced private security firms, peopled by mercenaries, terrorists and murderers only adds to the climate of criminal impunity. This is not an oversight; it is conscious policy.
