Secret Police Force to Be Set up in Iraq

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

*****   Secret police force to be set up in Iraq
By Julian Coman
Washington
January 5, 2004

Nine months after the end of Saddam Hussein's regime and his feared
intelligence force, Iraq is to get a secret police force again -
courtesy of Washington.

The Bush Administration will fund the agency in its latest bid to
root out the Baathist loyalists behind the insurgency in parts of
Iraq. The force will cost up to $US3 billion ($A4 billion) over the
next three years.

Its ranks will comprise Iraqi exile groups, Kurdish and Shiite forces
- and former agents who are now working for the Americans. CIA
officers in Baghdad will play a leading role in directing their
operations. . . .

"The presence of a powerful secret police ... will mean that the new
Iraqi political regime will not stray outside the parameters that the
US wants to set," said John Pike, an expert on classified military
budgets at the Global Security organisation. "To begin with, the new
Iraqi government will reign but not rule."

- Telegraph

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Yoshie

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