Word: saddamism
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...combat elusive but ruthless enemies who seem only to get stronger. If they opt for mayhem, blood and death, then al-Shahwani is more than ready to trade fire with them. "We know how to play that game," he says. He also knows the cost of playing it: Saddam killed his three sons a decade ago after uncovering a coup that al-Shahwani was helping to plot...
...nonelected government of unknowns and former exiles, the new men come to power with shaky authority at best. So it was perhaps fitting that they spent most of their first week trading in symbols. Putting Saddam Hussein in the dock was a dramatic way to show that the new bosses mean business, a potent reminder of the tyranny Iraqis have escaped. But the insurgents delivered a few signals of their own: on the night of the hand-off, the group holding Army Specialist Keith Maupin since April said he had been shot dead. And late in the week, rockets exploded...
...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 to speak of, the government is throwing al-Shahwani's agents straight into the trenches. Their prime targets are the global terrorists and foreign jihadis who take their cues from Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...
...time of Iraq's conflict with Iran in the 1980s, he had become commander of the Iraqi Special Forces School. During the war, the combat vet led a daring helicopter-borne recapture of Iraq's strategic Kardamand mountain, held by thousands of dug-in Iranian defenders. But Saddam distrusted such displays of talent and in 1984 put the general under mukhabarat surveillance...
...Shahwani had fled to London. As the first Gulf War approached, he moved to Jordan and joined the opposition as an intelligence collector. Four years later, he played a leading role in a CIA plot to mount an 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...