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Revealing quietly that he was in fact a self-proclaimed “member of the vast right-wing conspiracy,” Barrett explained his covert...
...counteroffensive starts with al-Shahwani (who, for security reasons, declines to be photographed). For months, he has been quietly recruiting and schooling Iraqi agents and expanding his network of informants. Since he took the job three months ago, at least five classes have graduated from his covert college. At the same time, he has been weighing in with his own ideas as the Prime Minister's security team shapes a battle plan. Al-Shahwani calls for a mix of aggressive tactics, reinstating Saddam-era mukhabarat intelligence professionals and carefully picking fights that can be won. With as yet no army...
...army coup against Saddam. But the dictator's secret police penetrated the network and aborted the attempt. Al-Shahwani escaped, but among the conspirators inside the military were his three sons. They were imprisoned and eventually executed. As the U.S. prepared to invade Iraq in 2003, he joined American covert teams in the western desert, though he declines to discuss the missions. "I came back to fight for my sons," he says. "We did what was required...
...been the center of his life. China Hands, which is co-authored by Lilley's journalist son, Jeffrey, is a survey of postimperial Chinese history, a compendium of American blunders in troublesome nations, and it has some pretty good locker-room tales about spies, including how, using his covert-messaging skills, Lilley helped a colleague bag another man's fianc?...
...shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid train station, U.S. and Spanish officials said. When a fingerprint on the bag appeared to match Mayfield's--the first U.S. link in the case--the FBI began covert surveillance of him, a U.S. official tells TIME...