Been Wonderin Where Saddams Torturers Went

Looks like we found many as well as their families, and their not vacationing. What was good for the CIA for many years as to that region, helping install then supporting Saddam and company, looks like another DeJa-Vu!

US forges alliance with Saddam Hussein officers to fight al-Qaeda

Baathist officers who fled Iraq in the wake of the fall of Saddam are working with US intelligence Photo: REUTERS

American counter-terrorism specialists and Saddam Hussein's former intelligence officers have forged an unlikely alliance in Yemen to tackle al-Qaeda.

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The two sides were enemies on the battlefield just seven years ago but have been brought together by the failings of Yemen's security and intelligence apparatus, according to diplomatic and military sources in the country.

Although mutual suspicions linger, the collaboration is said to have achieved some intelligence breakthroughs and helped instill greater efficiency and professionalism within the most elite Yemeni counterterrorism outfit.

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Under pressure from the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, created the rival National Security Agency (NSA).

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A number of former Iraqi officers, some of them members of Saddam's feared intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, were recruited to the service.

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Many fled to Syria before receiving an invitation to come to Yemen from President Saleh, according to former Yemeni military officers and analysts.

"After the collapse of the Baathists in Iraq, many came to Yemen," said Fares al-Saqqaf, a prominent analyst. "Many saw it as a transit point, but others stayed here and became government experts."....>>>>>

This had to have been known by the previous administration now one wonders was it passed on to the new by the Intelligence Community, or another secret coming to light, and if so when did cooperation with these former Saddam thugs begin!

And from the Iraq War Inquiry today this report is coming out:

Iraq military coup a possibility, ambassador tells Chilcot inquiry

The establishment of democracy in Iraq is "not a done deal", Britain's ambassador to the country warned today. A military coup was "a real possibility", he said.

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"There is clearly a balance to be drawn between using the professional competence and experience of former army officers under Saddam to provide the backbone of the modern Iraqi security forces, and dealing with the suspicions and fears of others that this is the reintroduction of irreconcilable elements of the Ba'ath party," Jenkins said.....>>>>>