The covert Operations of the CIA

•  When in 1991 Shiites in southern Iraq were prepared to carry out a grass-rout revolt against Saddam, the Bush administration decided to keep out of it and watch Iraqi troops regroup and crush the rebels with helicopter gunships.

• In 1995, an offensive by the Iraqi National Congress ( INC), which is a creation of the CIA, failed because the Clinton administration decided at the last minute not to support any action of the INC. The National Congress was considered to be a democratic alternative to the Baghdad regime but America did not trust fully in its military abilities. Still, an army of Kurdish factions, organised by INC's leader Ahmed Chalabi, planned to retake the Kurdish cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and trigger a CIA- backed coup among Iraqi troops.

• When a second organisation called ACCORD ( created by  the British intelligence MI6 and the CIA) decided to forment a palace coup in 1996, the USA once again pulled out at the last minute. In June 1996, Saddam's security service rolled up this  network ( Accord ), executing about a hundred officers. On August 31, Saddam's  tanks moved into Arbil, northern Iraq. Amerika could only watch 96 Kurdish disssidents being taken out and shot by Saddam's soldiers. An additional 2000 Kurds werw taken back to Iraqi intelligence headquaters where they were either tortured or shot or both.

The post-mortem of seven years of covert operations in the Gulf :
Numerous failed coup attempts and thousands of Kurdish and  Iraqi deaths.
Saddam remains in power as stable as ever. About $100 million expences for the Americans for no result at all.

And America still doesn't know whether it really wants to get rid of Saddam or not.
 
                      Can' t live with him, can't live without him !!!

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