The aim, according to the U.S. military, was to capture a reputed death squad leader.
It is alleged the death squad was under the direct command of the Peruvian president.
The interior ministry is also investigating an incident in which an American patrol reportedly caught a death squad red-handed on its way to kill a prisoner.
Police in Brazil are searching for the killers of the former head of a Sao Paulo death squad who was shot a month after being released from a lengthy jail term.
Mr Hashemi is accused of running a death squad with his bodyguards which is alleged to have carried out a campaign of political assassinations and bombings at the height of Iraq's insurgency.
Collier died a police officer, shot to death in his squad car on the MIT campus.
Desertion was also punishable by death by firing squad, but the U.S. Army had not carried out such a sentence since 1864.
"Indonesia has very strict drug laws and the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad but it is very rare that it actually is delivered, " our correspondent said.
On November 8th, 15 former army officers were sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting the murder, in 1975, of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the man who won Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in 1971.
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Mikal Gilmore writes about the horrifying shared childhood that culminated with his brother Gary's death before a Utah firing squad.
Skipper O'Driscoll joined the Irish camp on Monday, having remained at home after the departure of the larger squad because of the sudden death of a close friend.
And the Pakistan squad was plunged into despair by the death of Woolmer, who died after collapsing at his hotel hours after the Ireland defeat.
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