Volcano Brigade

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The Volcano Brigade is a commando unit under the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The ministry and especially the unit are alleged to have been heavily infiltrated by a violent Shia militia, the Badr Organization. The Volcano Brigade has been implicated in numerous kidnappings for ransom, terrorizing of the citizenry, and outright murders of members of the community. Volcano Brigadesmen move about the cities of Iraq in full battle gear in military vehicles, even going so far as to wear ski-masks. The Interior Ministry has also recently been found to have been keeping secret prisons in country where many Sunnis, (the traditional enemy of the Shia sect) have been tortured.

The U.S. military has helped build up the commandos under guidance from James Steele, a former Army Special Forces officer who led U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in El Salvador in the 1980s. Salvadoran army units trained by Steele's team were accused of a pattern of atrocities.

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