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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (112691)	8/25/2003 4:21:21 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

A while ago, I made a joking suggestion, that the way to win in Iraq was to hire Saddam's security apparatus, to work for us in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Turn's out, it's no joke: U.S.-led occupation authorities have begun a covert campaign to recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence service to help identify resistance to American forces here after months of increasingly sophisticated attacks and bombings, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. The extraordinary move to recruit agents of former president Saddam Hussein's security services underscores a growing recognition among U.S. officials that American military forces -- already stretched thin -- cannot alone prevent attacks like the devastating truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters this past week, the officials said. Authorities have stepped up the recruitment over the past two weeks, one senior U.S. official said, despite sometimes adamant objections by members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, who complain that they have too little control over the pool of recruits. While U.S. officials acknowledge the sensitivity of cooperating with a force that embodied the ruthlessness of Hussein's rule, they assert that an urgent need for better and more precise intelligence has forced unusual compromises. washingtonpost.com This is great. They can put all the torture chambers back in use, fill up the prisons, go back to doing all the things they did for Saddam, and did so well, except now they do it for us. With them on board, Iraq is certain to join the Free World. Hey, it's either this, or let those authoritarian democracy-hating Shiite clerics take over.