Democratic Underground - The School of Americas

Is a training camp for terrorists, in Fort Benning, Georgia. The school has produced some fine terroists, as the following article articulates:

Backyard terrorism

The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it.

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For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush's government.

Until January this year, Whisc was called the "School of the Americas", or SOA. Since 1946, SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch show, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583254,00.html

On Dec. 16, 1996-- well after his apparent "conversion" to the Democratic Party-- Clark gave the commencement speech to the graduating class at SOA, praising their achievements and exhorting them to continue their battle against "narco criminals," and calling upon their joint brotherhood as "military professionals."

See http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/usarsa/SPEECH/cgscspch.htm.

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