CIA to put $3 billion into new Iraqi secret police per request of Allawi..

[kentuck]

(near bottom of link)

http://www.juancole.com/2004_06_01_juancole_archive.html#108606748245306964

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Colin Powell at State has gotten control of the $18 billion in reconstruction aid voted by Congress, very little of which the Pentagon managed to disburse. The CIA will reportedly put $3 billion into building up a new Iraqi secret police. Iyad Allawi, who is called "Iyad al-Baathi" on the streets in Iraq, has long had an interest in rebuilding the secret police which seems to me sinister. It is a little shocking that Brahimi should have been willing to be party to this appointment. But I suspect he believes that Allawi cannot be elected to anything important in January, since he has no grassroots support and is widely disliked for his 1970s Baath background before he broke with the party. He had organized ex-Baath officers in the 1990s, some of whom were even more recent converts from the Baath ideology.

[Solon]

1. Great, just Fucking great!

This generation's SAVAK.

[BillZBubb]

2. Meet the new boss...

same as the old boss. Maybe he'll be Bush*'s Shah, propped up by a vicious secret police outfit.

[Old and In the Way]

3. So much for democracy in Iraq.

Isn't this what the 10th justification for our invasion/occupation of Iraq was: to liberate Iraqis from repressive secret police terror tactics? 3 BILLION DOLLARS???? The cynic in me thinks that this will be used to keep the oil following to Houston, TX.