Pentagon Secret Unit Helped Find Saddam

WASHINGTON - When U.S. troops pulled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) from a hole in the ground a year ago, the capture was described afterward as the work of a team of conventional and special operations troops.

Nothing was said about an assist from an intelligence unit that the Pentagon (news - web sites) created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to expand the military's ability to collect human intelligence — information from spies as opposed to listening devices or satellites. The unit's existence was revealed by The Washington Post on Sunday.

Pentagon officials said Monday that the unit, called the Strategic Support Branch, had a hidden hand in interrogations and other aspects of the clue-sifting work inside Iraq (news - web sites) that narrowed the search for Saddam and led eventually to the cramped underground chamber where he was hiding.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_spy_teams_2

DoD lost ! CBS News "War on waste" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

to begin with... :think:

and the damn "Liberal Press" will spread this story like wildfire, all unsubstantiated of course.

Until they were ready to trot him out?

If you ask me Saddam's capture derailed Howard Deans chances at running for office (and I say this as an initial Clark supporter point being I am not trying to start a bunch of fighting)