`  :Yeah, that is a valid source, but really is that the best way to call the tactics? Anyways the news article was posted January 10, 2005, and it sounds like that section is talking about the Salvadoran civil war. And that source already being cited(see below) does not seem the most reliable. If were are going to use such a term, than we need to explain what it really means.  :``The term ``death squad`` while appropriately vivid, can be misleading because it obscures their fundamental identity. Evidence shows that ``death squads`` are primarily military or paramilitary units carrying out political assassinations and intimidation as part of the Salvadoran government's counterinsurgency strategy`` quoted right out of the source being used in that section. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/deathsquads_ElSal.html :On another note, some user said I was being mean towards you?, that was never the case, nothing personal at all. Thanks,   `