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Title: "We were badly infiltrated,"...feeding information to the insurgents
Post by: JBA on December 18, 2003, 07:33:09 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/Iraq_infiltrators_031218.html

Among the documents found in Saddam's briefcase when he was captured last weekend was a list of names of Iraqis who have been working with the United States — either in the Iraqi security forces or the Coalition Provisional Authority — and are , a U.S. official told ABCNEWS.

"We were badly infiltrated," said the official, adding that finding the list of names is a "gold mine."

The United States has been rapidly recruiting Iraqis to take over security in the war-torn nation. Some 162,000 Iraqis have been trained in the areas of civil defense, police and other security activities since May.

On a recent trip to Baghdad, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was told by the commander of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division that every two or three weeks the military discovers someone who should not have made it through the vetting process.

William Rosenau, who once served in the Pentagon's Office of Special Operations, says the spies could have caused

Title: "We were badly infiltrated,"...feeding information to the insurgents
Post by: capt. apathy on December 18, 2003, 07:37:58 PM

shouldn't suprise anyone.  in a war like this, where you have no real way to tell who's on what side, it would seem to me that infilteration and spying would be expected and to some degree unavoidable.

Title: "We were badly infiltrated,"...feeding information to the insurgents
Post by: Pongo on December 19, 2003, 10:31:45 AM

It is a good find though. Hard to believe he was in even that much comunication with the resistance. I would have thought that he was totaly not involved with it due to the risk he would be taking.

Title: "We were badly infiltrated,"...feeding information to the insurgents
Post by: JBA on December 20, 2003, 01:54:45 PM

I think we should start to see a reduction in the attacks now. Once we weed these guys out of the ranks.

Title: "We were badly infiltrated,"...feeding information to the insurgents
Post by: Scootter on December 20, 2003, 09:35:43 PM

The infiltration thing goes both ways, how do you think we are getting information? I have a buddy who is in the Guard over there and in real life he's a cop, he has told me the whole informant thing is way over the top from what he is used to in South Florida. We are protecting these in folks by saying the information we get is from tips and from offering rewards, this keeps the informants secure.

This stuff is as old as war, and is most defiantly not news.