Perhaps the nearest British equivalent is the Obscene Publications Squad, or "Dirty Squad" in London's Soho in the 1970s, a group of police so corrupt that they effectively co-owned and co-managed the porn business with the pornographers themselves.
In the most delicate cases, the arrests are being made by an elite unit called the Baghdad Brigade, also known as "the dirty squad", which is said to report to the office of the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki.The American-sponsored judicial system was supposed to protect Iraqis' civil rights.
Kahn goes beyond the easy stereotypes of these oh-so-public figures, informing us that the blustering Steinbrenner was in the Williams College glee club with Stephen Sondheim ("I had a better voice," Steinbrenner volunteers) and leaving us to decide whether or not Steinbrenner was set up by Richard Nixon's dirty-tricks squad.
Blade takes charge of a Dirty Dozen-style squad called the Bloodpack.
This was Leeds United, a team which under its previous manager, the supremely cynical Don Revie, had in Clough's view become a dirty-trick death squad composed of professional foulers and sneaky divers.
None of these is the nominal lead, Brad Pitt, who unaccountably chooses to play his character, head of a Dirty-Dozen-type assassination squad in Germany, as Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel.
As Seumas Milne has pointed out in your columns (Britain is up to its neck in US dirty wars and death squads, 5 December 2013), Mr Cameron presides over a government that is closely aligned with US forces that continue to regard the whole world as a battlefield in the war against terror.
There is a whole dirty war, basically death squads promoted by the United States around the world.
Hasen, the election law expert, said the effort sounded more like a "goon squad" or a "dirty trick" than a scientific exit polling strategy.
Then — like the Wild Bunch, or the Seven Samurai times two, or the Dirty Dozen plus two — a squad of fourteen centrists, half Republicans and half Democrats, rode to the rescue.
In fact, he's released seven mixtapes in total, and this doesn't include his work with Squad Up, a Dirty South group that made appearances on Lil Wayne records throughout the 00s.
