CNS - Saddam's Security and Intelligence Network

"The five primary agencies that make up the Iraqi security apparatus are al-Amn al-Khas (Special Security), al-Amn al-'Amm (General Security), al-Istikhbarat (Military Intelligence), al-Mukhabarat (General Intelligence), and al-Amn al-'Askari (Military Security). Along with the Special Republican Guard, they form a vast, complex, and wide-ranging labyrinth of security organizations, with mutually independent intelligence and military units pervading all layers of Iraqi society, ensuring the protection of the president and his regime."

Right down to busy-bodies in the street. If this is Arab politics. If this is feudalism, and the Arab peoples want such an authoritarian regime, then OK, just no fucking weapons of utter horror. Hand them over, quickly, and no war.

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