Shi'a Death Squads Targeting Former Iraqi Ba'athists?

In all honesty, I hope this is true:

American troops got a tip that over a hundred prisoners were being abused in a secret prison in a government building. The U.S. troops raided the building and found 173 malnourished and abused Sunni Arab prisoners. The government apologized and said that something would be done, but it's no secret that Shia Arab and Kurdish police, especially elite SWAT teams and police commandoes, have been acting as death squads against former members of Saddam's security forces. Most of these thugs are still out there, and many are working for the terrorists. Some Iraqi police feel they have license to do whatever it takes to find and punish (torture and kill) Saddam's henchmen. This exacts revenge for lost kin, and weakens the terrorist movement that continues to kill Shia Arabs (and to a much lesser extent, Kurds, which have established tight security in their areas). The government cannot justify or support these unofficial police tactics. Acting like Saddam against Saddam's killers puts you on the same level as Saddam. Even the most aggrieved of Saddam's victims recognize this. But the appeal of revenge is strong, and the death squads and torture chambers will be hard to eliminate.

People may not remember, but after the War in Europe ended in 1945, Nazi Wolfpacks continued to engage in terrorist activities against West Germans and Allied forces stationed in Europe for some years. This is precisely because deNazification efforts were not thorough enough. The hardcore party ideologues supporting the despotic former regimes must be utterly destroyed---preferably on the battlefield, failing that at the gallows, but in any case, they need to be killed. Otherwise, these Ba'athists will simply work tirelessly to return Saddam to power.

This is yet another reason why Saddam should have been shot in that spiderhole and his carcass tossed into the streets of Baghdad.