The Baghdad newspaper Al-Bayyinah recently published Iraqi intelligence service documents that revealed the names and locations of Saddam’s agents abroad.
The 101 agents include spies in several U.S. ally countries, including Poland, France, Turkey, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Belgium, Australia and Greece.
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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein listens to prosecutors at his trial.
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Al-Bayyinah is a weekly published by the Hizbullah Movement in Iraq that is linked to the Shia Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
"Al-Bayyinah continues to publish the lists of names of those who cooperated with the Iraqi intelligence abroad who accepted to violate the dignity of man,” the newspaper reported April 6 in Arabic.
“We leave the reader to judge the weak-spirited Iraqis and Arabs who helped undermine the homeland."
The newspaper produced copies of the agent lists and other documents, including one dated June 7, 2000, from the Presidency Intelligence Service to heads of intelligence branches asking the spy chiefs to prepare a monthly report on plans "to meet with its targets and sources abroad.”
Another Aug. 8, 2000 document from the Presidency Intelligence Service to "M.M/40" requests approval to dispatch Officer Hasan Shihab Ahmad from the Al-Tamim Intelligence Department, a specialist in Turkoman issues within the Olympic Committee delegation known as the "Fencing Union" from Aug. 20 to Aug. 26, 2000 to meet with "collaborator" Barbarus Muhammad Muhammad Habiba.
A third document dated Sept. 11, 2000 is also from the Presidency Intelligence Service to M.M/40. It states that the intelligence branches nominated Officer Muhammad Kazim Muhammad to travel with the Fencing Union from Sept. 15 to 25, 2000 to meet with Falah Husayn Muhammad Rida in Amman.
Another document identified Falah Hasan Muhammad Rida al-Haydari as “a good collaborator with the London and UAE stations” who “gave good information about the agent Al-Da'wah Party activity in London and Ireland."
One document stated Salim Abub Husayn should be sent to Iran with the Iraqi Olympic Committee basketball delegation from July 27 to Aug. 4, 2000 to meet with agent Imad al-Sudani, who resides in Iran and works with "the Supreme Council clique" there.
