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.
It is to him that the Colina death squad, which killed the nine villagers, is linked.
The notorious communist death squad, the Alex Boncayao Brigade, claimed responsibility for the hit.
Ms Kaplan shows that these lists were used by the much-feared Milice, a militia of fascist Frenchmen that became a self-appointed death squad.
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.
This fear will no doubt be fed by the revelation this week that 22 Shia highway patrolmen, working for the interior ministry, were part of a death squad.
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Several journalists, human-rights workers and intellectuals have been murdered this year, in some cases apparently by a right-wing death squad linked to dissident military officers opposed to peace.
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.
The prime minister himself seems to have been stung by the Wikileaks releases, especially the suggestion - promoted mainly by news outlet Al Jazeera - that armed units under his control may have been involved in death squad activities during the worst of the sectarian carnage in 2006-7.
The army and police crushed a previous guerrilla outbreak in the 1970s partly by forming an unofficial death-squad called the White Guards.
One of the latest to die was Jesus Bejarano, a former government peace adviser, shot at Bogota's national university this month, seemingly by a right-wing death-squad.
In April 2009, judges found him guilty of authorising death-squad killings in two incidents known as La Cantuta and Barrios Altos, and the kidnapping of a journalist and businessman.
As many Latin American countries know, drug traffickers are not the only people ready to resort to violence against those who show them up: few people in Guatemala doubt that it was an army-linked death-squad that last year murdered the bishop there who had just issued a report on army atrocities.
His strategy has always been to co-operate on the minor stuff, but deny charges that carry harsher sentences. (Each human-rights charge against him could jail him for 25 years.) The first case he faced on February 18th, for influence-peddling in favour of two relatives of his former lover, Jacqueline Beltran, is small beer compared with corrupting judges, running guns and ordering death-squad killings.
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.
Hundreds of them were caught, tried by court-martial, and sentenced to the stockade or, in the case of rape or murder, to death by firing squad.
He was initially charged with selling drugs - an offence which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad - but that has now been dropped.
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"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.
Sandiford, 56, from Cheltenham, was arrested on drugs charges in May 2012 and sentenced to death by firing squad last week by a panel of judges at the district court in Denpasar, Bali.
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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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Last year, nine prisoners on death row were executed by firing squad, with the president vowing to kill all death row inmates within weeks.
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The CNN Truth Squad determined the "death panel" claim was false, along with others spread by conservative commentators and activist groups who say Democratic proposals would promote euthanizing elderly Americans and mandate free health insurance for illegal immigrants.
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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