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Iran Targets United States on Iraq Soil Made In Tehran: The Anti-United States Uprising In Iraq Defector Desribes Iran's Massive Intelligence Operation in Iraq Iranian intelligence has been operating at least 18 covert centers in Iraq, according to a former Iranian official in Tehran's intelligence community.The defector disclosed the first details on Iran's intelligence presence in Iraq and described efforts to target Shiites deemed as aligned with the United States in a nearly $1 Billion effort to prevent the spread of democracy in that Arab country.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's prewar claims that Saddam Hussein had built a fleet of trucks and railroad cars to produce anthrax and other deadly germs were based chiefly on information from a now-discredited Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," according to current and former intelligence officials. U.S. officials never had direct access to the defector and didn't even know his real name until after the war. Instead, his story was provided by German agents, and his file was so thick with details that American officials thought it confirmed long-standing suspicions that the Iraqis had developed mobile germ factories to evade arms...

The debriefing of Iraqi defector Hussein Kamal, the text of which was obtained by WorldNetDaily, provides compelling insight into Iraq's nuclear weapons program, as well as the nation's plans for enhancing the development of biological and chemical weapons. On Feb. 5, Secretary of State Colin Powell used the defection of Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, as a key event that prompted Iraq to finally admit to some of its previously undisclosed weapons programs. Powell told U.N. delegates that Iraq "never had any intention of complying" with United Nation Security Council Resolution 1441 to disarm. The debriefing documents, from UNSCOM and the...

One key argument for war was the peril from weapons of mass destruction. Now top officials are worried by repeated failures to find the proof - and US intelligence agencies are engaged in a struggle to avoid the blame The Iraqi military base at Taji does not look like a place of global importance. It is a desolate expanse of bunkers and hangars surrounded by barbed wire and battered look-out posts. It is deserted apart from American sentries at the gate. Yet Taji, north of Baghdad, is the key to a furious debate. Where are Saddam's weapons of mass destruction?...

An Iraqi defector with detailed knowledge of Saddam Hussein's decades-long record of torture and human rights abuses has stepped forward to challenge the claims of premier peace activist and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who has been telling audiences that reports of the Iraqi dictator's brutality are greatly exaggerated On Thursday, Maha Yusef, a former Iraqi citizen who escaped from Saddam's clutches along with her husband in the 1980s, described several executions that were preceded by the most gruesome and extreme methods of torture - episodes that were personally supervised by Saddam or his son Uday. Yusef described...

Iran says scores of Iraq-based rebels defected TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Scores of Iraq-based Iranian rebels have defected and returned to Iran over recent months, taking advantage of an amnesty offered by Tehran, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying Monday. Iran has said members of the People's Mujahideen, listed as a "terrorist organization" by the United States and the European Union, can return if they voice regret for their actions against the Islamic Republic. "Around 100 defected members of the organization have returned to Iran in the past two or three months and were handed over to their...

<p>IRBIL, Iraq (AP) --  Deserters from the Iraqi army say they were beaten by their superiors and one says he saw 10 fellow soldiers executed by a commander, according to a Human Rights Watch report.</p> <p>Some of the 26 soldiers interviewed by the group said officers frequently warned of executions if they tried to escape, telling them during air strikes to stand fast and "die like men."</p>

The CIA has stopped trying to persuade Iraqi generals and political leaders to defect after underestimating their "hatred" of America. A three-month campaign using telephone calls, e-mails and face-to-face appeals has failed to convince any help overthrow Saddam Hussein. "We misjudged their tenacity," an American intelligence official has told USA Today. "These guys are driven by a hatred of the US that we may have underestimated." Potential defectors were promised asylum, money and a position in a post-war Iraqi government. Some refused to desert until Saddam was captured or killed because they feared retribution. Others resisted changing sides because they...

Saddam Hussein's "sadistic" death squads are beheading disloyal subjects to strike fear into those who contemplate surrender, Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary has claimed. The executioners, who wear American and British military uniforms, are weeding out soldiers and innocent civilians who take a stand against Saddam's reign and are using them as an example to others considering desertion, he said. Mr Rumsfeld told a Pentagon news briefing: "These death squads report to the Hussein family directly. Their ranks are populated with criminals released from Iraqi prisons. "They dress in civilian clothes and operate from private homes confiscated from innocent people...

HAIFA, Israel - The Pentagon's clandestine efforts to persuade senior Iraqi officials to turn on Saddam Hussein may be the last hope of avoiding a bloody urban battle in Baghdad. While the reward is so great that the strategy is worth pursing, nobody should hold out much hope for success. The Iraqi dictator constructed his military and political system precisely for this kind of worst-case scenario. Consider the Republican Guard. Since 1988 it has been under the direct command of the presidential palace rather than the army. Because of this, its soldiers have received the best equipment and training, and...

· Iraqi troops pull back to capital for final showdown · Thousands surrender in battle for key city · US holds secret talks with enemy generals American special forces were reported to be in Baghdad last night as thousands of elite troops still loyal to Saddam Hussein prepared for a final bloody showdown in the Iraqi capital. The prospect of coalition forces fighting street by street for control of Baghdad came after thousands of Iraqi troops withdrew to the city following a day of sweeping advances by US and British soldiers pushing north from Kuwait. As huge explosions ripped through...

In an intensified effort to divide Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from his inner circle, U.S. military and intelligence officers in recent days have communicated with some Iraqi commanders and have secretly designated buildings in the capital for defectors to occupy, promising they will not be targeted by U.S. airstrikes, senior U.S. officials said yesterday. U.S. military and intelligence officers have also gained promises from some Iraqi commanders that they will not fire chemical weapons at American ground forces, the officials said. However, U.S. officials said they are monitoring one Republican Guard unit outside Baghdad that they believe has been issued...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. CIA abducted former Iraqi general from Denmark; tabloid report Deutsche Presse-Agentur March 22, 2003, Saturday   13:24 Central European Time Copenhagen Former Iraqi general Nizar al-Khazraji, who disappeared Monday while under house arrest in Denmark, was abducted to Saudi Arabia by CIA agents, the Danish tabloid B.T. reported Saturday. Al-Khazraji allegedly was spirited out of his Danish home, where he had been under house arrest since November. Four CIA agents had kidnapped the former army chief-of-staff, who had been living as a refugee...

In an intensified effort to divide Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from his inner circle, U.S. military and intelligence officers in recent days have communicated with Iraqi commanders and they have secretly designated buildings in the capital for defectors to occupy, promising they will not be targeted in U.S. airstrikes, senior U.S. officials said today.

In an intensified effort to divide Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from his inner circle, U.S. military and intelligence officers in recent days have communicated with Iraqi commanders and they have secretly designated buildings in the capital for defectors to occupy, promising they will not be targeted in U.S. airstrikes, senior U.S. officials said today. U.S. military and intelligence officers also have gained promises from some Iraqi commanders that they would not fire chemical weapons at American ground forces, the officials said, although U.S. officials said they are monitoring one Republican Guard unit outside Baghdad that they believe has been issued...

Saddam Hussein's eldest son mercilessly beats girls as young as 12 on the soles of their feet if they refuse to sleep with him, Iraqi defectors said today. Uday Hussein forces head teachers of schools in Baghdad's poorest districts to send pupils to his palace where he arranges dates with those he likes. If the chosen girls annoy him in anyway they are dangled over a wooden beam held by his bodyguards and repeatedly hit with a wooden club, according to two former members of his inner circle who recently fled Iraq. "He does it to a girl if she...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, March 17 — The highest-level officer to defect from Saddam Hussein’s army disappeared from his home in Denmark on Monday under mysterious circumstances, according to family members and a Danish state official. Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, Saddam’s former army chief of staff, was seen by some as playing an important role in a post-war