Fallujan turns into informant for intelligence officer, ends up beheaded

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3359313

A tragic end to an unlikely friendship

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The pair made unlikely friends. One was a jolly Kurdish intelligence officer, the other a Fallujan with ties to the insurgency.

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

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

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