Baghdad Spies Live on Edge

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraqintel18sep18,0,7980798.story?coll=la-home-headlines

September 18, 2005
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Baghdad Spies Live on Edge
# The Iraqi intelligence service is starting from scratch after a purge of Hussein-era agents. So far, rivals and insurgents have the upper hand.

By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer

BAGHDAD — They made an unlikely pair: One was a jolly Kurdish intelligence officer, the other a Falloujan with ties to the insurgency.

Yet twice a week for several months, Gen. Hussain Ali Kamal, head of the Interior Ministry's spy service, broke bread with a burly man in his 20s code-named Muslah, or the reformer, who often wore a traditional Arab dishdasha robe.

"What did Saddam Hussein ever do for Iraq?" Kamal said to the former member of Hussein's Baath Party, trying to flip him to the side of the new Iraqi government. "The Iraqis have nothing."

That's true, Muslah acknowledged. "But we have to fight the Americans. The Americans are occupiers," Kamal recalled him saying.

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1. FWIW my analysis of this intel report

The generalizations are credible. The anecdotal example is probably disinformation. This is a known technique of disinformation. Place a false report in a credible context.