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Broad purges wiped out most Iraqis helping CIA
USA TODAY ^
| 6/16/03
| John Diamond
Posted on 06/17/2003 1:58:36 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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From 1991 to 2003, Saddam's security forces killed hundreds of U.S.-linked Iraqi agents, intelligence sources say. Sometimes security officials ferreted the spies out and executed them, and sometimes they made what amounted to lucky kills, executing spies along with non-spies during broader purges.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushdoctrineunfold; cia; intelligence; iraq; kenallard; spies; warlist
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posted on
06/17/2003 1:58:36 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Despite periodic efforts, U.S. intelligence had a hard time penetrating Saddam's inner circle. In the mid-1990s, according to former CIA clandestine officer Robert Baer, in his book See No Evil, the agency "had no human sources inside or even near Saddam's circle none."
Bob should know, he was responsible for the Operations in Northern Iraq. Ask him what he thinks about how Washington handled the situation in the 90s.
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posted on
06/17/2003 4:48:34 AM PDT
by
AdmSmith
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
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posted on
06/17/2003 6:57:03 AM PDT
by
Free the USA
(Stooge for the Rich)
To: Free the USA; kattracks; Grampa Dave; *Bush Doctrine Unfold; *war_list; W.O.T.; DoctorZIn; ...
Thanks!
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posted on
06/17/2003 9:20:25 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
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