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  • Saddam's Spies Survive

    09/29/2005 5:51:48 PM PDT · by strategofr · 1 replies · 346+ views
    Strategy Page ^ | October 29, 2004 | James Dunnigan
    The Saddam era Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) is still in business. In Arabic, the IIS was called the Jihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma, and was more commonly known as the Mukhabarat (Arab for “Intelligence.”) Combining the work of the American CIA, FBI and Secret Service, the IIS had a core strength of 5,000 highly trained, quite skilled, and very loyal (to Saddam) members. But the IIS controlled other intelligence and paramilitary personnel that totaled over 100,000 people. Few of these people were rounded up after Saddam’s government fell in April, 2003. They are still out there. Most of them anyway. Thusands have...