Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks

[The Backlash Cometh]

The Bush administration has authorized creation of an Iraqi intelligence service to spy on groups and individuals inside Iraq that are targeting U.S. troops and civilians working to form a new government, according to U.S. government officials.

The new service will be trained, financed and equipped largely by the CIA with help from Jordan. Initially the agency will be headed by Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Badran, a secular Shiite and activist in the Jordan-based Iraqi National Accord, a former exile group that includes former Baath Party military and intelligence officials.

Badran and Ayad Alawi, leader of the INA, are spending much of this week at CIA headquarters in Langley to work out the details of the new program. Both men have worked closely with the CIA over the past decade in unsuccessful efforts to incite coups against Saddam Hussein. The agency and the two men believe they can effectively screen former government officials to find agents for the service and weed out those who are unreliable or unsavory, officials said.

By contrast, some Pentagon officials and Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, vehemently oppose allowing former intelligence and military officials into the new organization for fear they cannot be trusted. Intelligence experts said Chalabi and his sponsors also fear some former government officials would use the new apparatus to undermine the influence of Chalabi, who wants to play a central role in a new Iraq.





http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54518-2003Dec10.html

[seasat]

1. Let me get this straight.

The same group that came up with the faulty intelligence regarding Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction is now going to train Iraqis in gathering intelligence?:crazy:

[el_gato]

3. it wasn't faulty it was systematically distorted

[kskiska]

2. This could end up

with something like the Shah's secret police. This will go over big with Iraqis.

[Barrett808]

6. Or another Pakistani ISI -- just what we need n/t

n/t

[Zero Gravitas]

4. Secret Police

A Secret Police is just what we need to convince the Iraqis we are there to "liberate" them, that and the IDF-style collective punishment/iron fist approach will ensure that Iraq is a peaceful and prosperous western-style secular democracy in time for the Republic Party's convention next September. :eyes:

[underpants]

5. ...but some are more equal than others

Like that.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. GESTAPO!

"VHERE ARE YOUR PAPERS SVINEHOUNDT?"

Next comes the Einsatzgruppen!

[Zero Gravitas]

8. They're already doing that

some villages have been complete enclosed in razor wire with only one way in/out. The population is issued with identity papers in Germa... I mean English ONLY. You must show ze paperz to get in out out. Talk about humiliating ordinary Iraqis...

[underpants]

9. You can just smell the freedom from here

If the wind is blowing right.