"We are repeating every mistake we made in Vietnam."
"After McKiernan left, we had fewer than 30 intelligence officers
trying to figure who the enemy was," says a top-ranking military
official who was in Iraq at the time. "We were starting from scratch,
with practically no resources."
"More than a dozen current and former intelligence officers
knowledgeable about Iraq spoke with TIME in recent weeks to share
details about the conflict. They voiced their growing frustration with
a war that they feel was not properly anticipated by the Bush
Administration, a war fought with insufficient resources, a war that
almost all of them now believe is not winnable militarily. "We're good
at fighting armies, but we don't know how to do this," says a recently
retired four-star general with Middle East experience. "We don't have
enough intelligence analysts working on this problem. The Defense
Intelligence Agency [DIA] puts most of its emphasis and its assets on
Iran, North Korea and China. The Iraqi insurgency is simply not top
priority, and that's a damn shame."
"Another hot debate in the intelligence community is whether to make a
major change in the counterinsurgency strategy--to stop the aggressive
sweeps through insurgent-riddled areas, like the recent offensive in
Tall 'Afar, and try to concentrate troops and resources with the aim
of improving security and living conditions in population centers like
Baghdad. "We've taken Samarra four times, and we've lost it four
times," says an intelligence officer. "We need a new strategy."

But the Pentagon leadership is unlikely to support a strategy that
concedes broad swaths of territory to the enemy. In fact, none of the
intelligence officers who spoke with TIME or their ranking superiors
could provide a plausible road map toward stability in Iraq."

Screwing up a post-invasion country pacification is probably par for
the course for a chickenhawk president whose sole warfighting
experience was successfully escaping and evading a flight physical and
avoiding active duty during the Vietnam War.

In a recent post I described a possible pullback abandoning most of
the Sunni zone and virtually all of the Shiite area with U.S. forces
combining with Kurd pesh merga to protect the northern oil
infrastructure.  If the current violence between the Sunni and Shiite
factions balloons into full civil war, the limited U.S. forces may
have no choice but to make such a move...or retreat from Iraq entirely
which would be a political and economic disaster and set the stage for
a real Jihad.  The in-country U.S. forces and pesh merga could
successfully defend such a limited "green zone" once populations in it
are pacified.

David Bier

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106307,00.html

Sunday, Sep. 18, 2005

Saddam's Revenge

The secret history of U.S. mistakes, misjudgments and intelligence
failures that let the Iraqi dictator and his allies launch an
insurgency now ripping Iraq apart

By JOE KLEIN

Five men met in an automobile in a Baghdad park a few weeks after the
fall of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime in April 2003, according to
U.S. intelligence sources. One of the five was Saddam. The other four
were among his closest advisers. The agenda: how to fight back against
the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. A representative of Saddam's former
No. 2, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, was there. But the most intriguing man
in the car may have been a retired general named Muhammad Yunis
al-Ahmed, who had been a senior member of the Military Bureau, a
secret Baath Party spy service. The bureau's job had been to keep an
eye on the Iraqi military--and to organize Baathist resistance in the
event of a coup. Now a U.S. coup had taken place, and Saddam turned to
al-Ahmed and the others and told them to start "rebuilding your networks."

The 45-minute meeting was pieced together months later by U.S.
military intelligence. It represents a rare moment of clarity in the
dust storm of violence that swirls through central Iraq. The
insurgency has grown well beyond its initial Baathist core to include
religious extremist and Iraqi nationalist organizations, and plain old
civilians who are angry at the American occupation. But Saddam's
message of "rebuilding your networks" remains the central organizing
principle.

More than two years into the war, U.S. intelligence sources concede
that they still don't know enough about the nearly impenetrable web of
what Iraqis call ahl al-thiqa (trust networks), which are at the heart
of the insurgency. It's an inchoate movement without a single
inspirational leader like Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh--a movement whose
primary goal is perhaps even more improbable than the U.S. dream of
creating an Iraqi democracy: restoring Sunni control in a country
where Sunnis represent just 20% of the population. Intelligence
experts can't credibly estimate the rebels' numbers but say most are
Iraqis. Foreigners account for perhaps 2% of the suspected guerrillas
who have been captured or killed, although they represent the vast
majority of suicide bombers. ("They are ordnance," a U.S. intelligence
official says.) The level of violence has been growing steadily. There
have been roughly 80 attacks a day in recent weeks. Suicide bombs
killed more than 200 people, mostly in Baghdad, during four days of
carnage last week, among the deadliest since Saddam's fall.

More than a dozen current and former intelligence officers
knowledgeable about Iraq spoke with TIME in recent weeks to share
details about the conflict. They voiced their growing frustration with
a war that they feel was not properly anticipated by the Bush
Administration, a war fought with insufficient resources, a war that
almost all of them now believe is not winnable militarily. "We're good
at fighting armies, but we don't know how to do this," says a recently
retired four-star general with Middle East experience. "We don't have
enough intelligence analysts working on this problem. The Defense
Intelligence Agency [DIA] puts most of its emphasis and its assets on
Iran, North Korea and China. The Iraqi insurgency is simply not top
priority, and that's a damn shame."

The intelligence officers stressed these points:

• They believe that Saddam's inner circle--especially those from the
Military Bureau--initially organized the insurgency's support
structure and that networks led by former Saddam associates like
al-Ahmed and al-Duri still provide money and logistical help.

• The Bush Administration's fixation on finding weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) in 2003 diverted precious intelligence resources
that could have helped thwart the fledgling insurgency.

• From the beginning of the insurgency, U.S. military officers have
tried to contact and negotiate with rebel leaders, including, as a
senior Iraq expert puts it, "some of the people with blood on their
hands."

• The frequent replacement of U.S. military and administrative teams
in Baghdad has made it difficult to develop a counterinsurgency strategy.

The accumulation of blunders has led a Pentagon guerrilla-warfare
expert to conclude, "We are repeating every mistake we made in Vietnam."

THE WRONG FOCUS

It is no secret that General Tommy Franks didn't want to hang around
Iraq very long. As Franks led the U.S. assault on Baghdad in April
2003, his goal--and that of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--was to
get to the capital as quickly as possible with a minimal number of
troops. Franks succeeded brilliantly at that task. But
military-intelligence officers contend that he did not seem interested
in what would come next. "He never once asked us for a briefing about
what happened once we got to Baghdad," says a former Army intelligence
officer attached to the invasion force. "He said, 'It's not my job.'
We figured all he wanted to do was get in, get out and write his
book." (Franks, through a spokesman, declined to comment for this
article.)

The rush to Baghdad, critics say, laid the groundwork for trouble to
come. In one prewar briefing, for example, Lieut. General David
McKiernan--who commanded the land component of the coalition
forces--asked Franks what should be done if his troops found Iraqi
arms caches on the way to Baghdad. "Just put a lock on 'em and go,
Dave," Franks replied, according to a former U.S. Central Command
(Centcom) officer. Of course, you couldn't simply put a lock on
ammunition dumps that stretched for several square miles--dumps that
would soon be stripped and provide a steady source of weaponry for the
insurgency.

U.S. troops entered Baghdad on April 5. There was euphoria in the
Pentagon. The looting in the streets of Baghdad and the continuing
attacks on coalition troops were considered temporary phenomena that
would soon subside. On May 1, President George W. Bush announced,
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," on the deck of an
aircraft carrier, near a banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Shortly thereafter, Franks moved his headquarters from Qatar back to
Florida. He was followed there in June by McKiernan, whose Baghdad
operation included several hundred intelligence officers who had been
keeping track of the situation on the ground. "Allowing McKiernan to
leave was the worst decision of the war," says one of his superiors.
(The decision, he says, was Franks'.) "We replaced an operational
force with a tactical force, which meant generals were replaced by
colonels." Major General Ricardo Sanchez, a relatively junior
commander and a recent arrival in Iraq, was put in charge. "After
McKiernan left, we had fewer than 30 intelligence officers trying to
figure who the enemy was," says a top-ranking military official who
was in Iraq at the time. "We were starting from scratch, with
practically no resources."

On May 23, the U.S. made what is generally regarded as a colossal
mistake. L. Paul Bremer--the newly arrived administrator of the U.S.
government presence, the Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA)--disbanded the Iraqi army and civil service on Rumsfeld's
orders. "We made hundreds of thousands of people very angry at us,"
says a Western diplomat attached to the CPA, "and they happened to be
the people in the country best acquainted with the use of arms."
Thousands moved directly into the insurgency--not just soldiers but
also civil servants who took with them useful knowledge of Iraq's
electrical grid and water and sewage systems. Bremer says he doesn't
regret that decision, according to his spokesman Dan Senor. "The Kurds
and Shi'ites didn't want Saddam's army in business," says Senor, "and
the army had gone home. We had bombed their barracks. How were we
supposed to bring them back and separate out the bad guys? We didn't
even have enough troops to stop the looting in Baghdad."

A third decision in the spring of 2003--to make the search for WMD the
highest intelligence priority--also hampered the U.S. ability to fight
the insurgents. In June, former weapons inspector David Kay arrived in
Baghdad to lead the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), which had 1,200
intelligence officers and support staff members assigned to search for
WMD. They had exclusive access to literally tons of documents
collected from Saddam's office, intelligence services and ministries
after the regime fell. Kay clashed repeatedly with U.S. military
leaders who wanted access not only to the documents but also to some
of the resources--analysts, translators, field agents--at his
disposal. "I was in meetings where [General John] Abizaid was pounding
on the table trying to get some help," says a senior military officer.
"But Kay wouldn't budge."

Indeed, a covert-intelligence officer working for the ISG told TIME
correspondent Brian Bennett that he had been ordered in August 2003 to
"terminate" contact with Iraqi sources not working on WMD. As a
result, the officer says, he stopped meeting with a dozen Iraqis who
were providing information--maps, photographs and addresses of former
Baathist militants, safe houses and stockpiles of explosives--about
the insurgency in the Mosul area. "The President's priority--and my
mission--was to focus on WMD," Kay told TIME. "Abizaid needed help
with the counterinsurgency. He said, 'You have the only organization
in this country that's working.' But military guys are not used to
people telling them no, and so, yes, there was friction."

Sanchez learned that autumn that there were 38 boxes of documents
specifically related to the city of Fallujah, a hotbed of Sunni
rebellion. Months later, when military-intelligence officers finally
were able to review some of the documents, many of which had been
marked NO INTELLIGENCE VALUE, the officers found information that they
now say could have helped the U.S. stop the insurgency's spread. Among
the papers were detailed civil-defense plans for cities like Fallujah,
Samarra and Ramadi and rosters of leaders and local Baathist militia
who would later prove to be the backbone of the insurgency in those
cities.

U.S. military-intelligence sources say many of the documents still
have not been translated or thoroughly analyzed. "You should see the
warehouse in Qatar where we have this stuff," said a high-ranking
former U.S. intelligence official. "We'll never be able to get through
it all. Who knows?" he added, with a laugh. "We may even find the VX
[nerve gas] in one of those boxes."

MISJUDGING THE ENEMY

As early as June 2003, the CIA told Bush in a briefing that he faced a
"classic insurgency" in Iraq. But the White House didn't fully trust
the CIA, and on June 30, Rumsfeld told reporters, "I guess the reason
I don't use the term guerrilla war is that it isn't ... anything like
a guerrilla war or an organized resistance." The opposition, he
claimed, was composed of "looters, criminals, remnants of the Baathist
regime" and a few foreign fighters. Indeed, Rumsfeld could claim
progress in finding and capturing most of the 55 top members of
Saddam's regime--the famous Iraqi deck of cards. (To date, 44 of the
55 have been captured or killed.) Two weeks after Rumsfeld's comment,
the Secretary of Defense was publicly contradicted by Centcom
commander Abizaid, who said the U.S. indeed faced "a classical
guerrilla-type campaign" in Iraq.

In a sense, both Rumsfeld and Abizaid were right. The backbone of the
insurgency was thousands of Baathist remnants organizing a guerrilla
war against the Americans. According to documents later seized by the
U.S. military, Saddam--who had been changing locations frequently
until his capture in December 2003--tried to stay in charge of the
rebellion. He fired off frequent letters filled with instructions for
his subordinates. Some were pathetic. In one, he explained guerrilla
tradecraft to his inner circle--how to keep in touch with one another,
how to establish new contacts, how to remain clandestine. Of course,
the people doing the actual fighting needed no such advice, and
decisions about whom to attack when and where were made by the cells.
Saddam's minions, including al-Duri and al-Ahmed, were away from the
front lines, providing money, arms and logistical support for the cells.

But Saddam did make one strategic decision that helped alter the
course of the insurgency. In early autumn he sent a letter to
associates ordering them to change the target focus from coalition
forces to Iraqi "collaborators"--that is, to attack Iraqi police
stations. The insurgency had already announced its seriousness and
lethal intent with a summer bombing campaign. On Aug. 7, a bomb went
off outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, killing 19 people. Far
more ominous was the Aug. 19 blast that destroyed the U.N.'s
headquarters in Baghdad, killing U.N. representative Sergio Vieira de
Mello and 22 others. Although al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi
claimed responsibility for the attack, U.S. intelligence officials
believe that remnants of Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS)
carried it out. "It was a pure Baathist operation," says a senior U.S.
intelligence official. "The Iraqis who served as U.N. security guards
simply didn't show up for work that day. It wasn't a suicide bomb. The
truck driver left the scene. Our [explosives] team found that the bomb
had the distinctive forensics of Saddam's IIS."

On Oct. 27, 2003, the assaults on "collaborators" that Saddam had
requested began with attacks on four Iraqi police stations--and on
International Red Cross headquarters--in Baghdad, killing 40 people.
The assaults revealed a deadly new alliance between the Baathists and
the jihadi insurgents. U.S. intelligence agents later concluded, after
interviewing one of the suicide bombers, a Sudanese who failed in his
attempt, that the operation had been a collaboration between former
Baathists and al-Zarqawi. The Baathists had helped move the suicide
bombers into the country, according to the U.S. sources, and then
provided shelter, support (including automobiles) and coordination for
the attacks.

MISHANDLING THE TRIBES

By almost every account, Sanchez and Bremer did not get along. The
conflict was predictable--the soldiers tended to be realists fighting
a nasty war; the civilians, idealists trying to create a new Iraq--but
it was troubling nonetheless. The soldiers wanted to try diplomacy and
began reaching out to the less extreme elements of the insurgency to
bring them into negotiations over Iraq's political future. The
diplomats took a harder line, refusing to negotiate with the enemy.

Military-intelligence officers presented the CPA with a plan to make a
deal with 19 subtribes of the enormous Dulaimi clan, located in
al-Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni triangle. The tribes "had
agreed to disarm and keep us informed of traffic going through their
territories," says a former Army intelligence officer. "All it would
have required from the CPA was formal recognition that the tribes
existed--and $3 million." The money would go toward establishing
tribal security forces. "It was a foot in the door, but we couldn't
get the CPA to move." Bremer's spokesman Senor says a significant
effort was made to reach out to the tribes. But several military
officials dispute that. "The standard answer we got from Bremer's
people was that tribes are a vestige of the past, that they have no
place in the new democratic Iraq," says the former intelligence
officer. "Eventually they paid some lip service and set up a tribal
office, but it was grudging."

The Baathists, on the other hand, were more active in courting the
tribes. Starting in November 2003, tribal sheiks and Baathist
expatriates held a series of monthly meetings at the Cham Palace hotel
in Damascus. They were public events, supposedly meetings to express
solidarity with the Iraqi opposition to the U.S. occupation. (The
January 2004 gathering was attended by Syrian President Bashar Assad.)
Behind the scenes, however, the meetings provided a convenient cover
for leaders of the insurgency, including Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed, the
former Military Bureau director, to meet, plan and distribute money. A
senior military officer told TIME that U.S. intelligence had an
informant--a mid-level Baathist official who belonged to the Dulaimi
tribe--attending the meetings and keeping the Americans informed about
the insurgents' growing cohesion. But the increased flow of
information did not produce a coherent strategy for fighting the
growing rebellion.

THE DEALMAKING GOES NOWHERE

Saddam was captured on Dec. 13, 2003, in a spider hole on a farm near
Tikrit. His briefcase was filled with documents identifying many of
the former Baathists running support networks for the insurgency. It
was the first major victory of what the U.S. called the postcombat
phase of the war: in early 2004, 188 insurgents were captured, many of
whom had been mentioned in the seized documents. Although Izzat
Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam's former No. 2, narrowly evaded capture, much
of his Mosul and Kirkuk apparatus was rolled up. Baathist financial
networks were disrupted in several provinces. The CIA, in fact,
believes that Saddam's capture permanently crippled the Baathist wing
of the insurgency. "A guy like al-Duri is more symbol than substance
at this point," a U.S. intelligence official says. "The parade has
passed him by."

Military-intelligence officers who were in Iraq at the time, however,
saw evidence that the Baathists regrouped in the spring of 2004, when
the U.S. was preoccupied with battling a rebellion led by Shi'ite
extremist Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq's south and with the fight for the
rebel-held city of Fallujah in the Sunni triangle. And the U.S.
intelligence officials believe that some former regime loyalists began
to be absorbed by other rebel groups, including those made up of
religious extremists and Iraqi nationalists.

Al-Ahmed, say U.S. intelligence officials, is still running the
support network he began building after the meeting with Saddam in the
car. In May 2004 al-Ahmed set off on one of his periodic tours of the
combat zone, meeting with local insurgent leaders, distributing money
and passing along news--a trip later pieced together by U.S.
intelligence analysts wading through the mountain of data and
intelligence provided by low-level local informants. Al-Ahmed started
in his hometown of Mosul, where he had been supervising--from a
distance--the rebuilding of the local insurgent network disrupted
after Saddam's capture. He moved on to Hawija, where he met a man
thought to be a senior financier of the insurgency in north-central
Iraq. After a brief stay at a farmhouse near Samarra, he met with
military leaders of religious and nationalist rebel groups in Baghdad
and with Rashid Taan Kazim, one of the few faces from the deck of
cards (al-Duri is another) still at large, who is thought to be
running a support network for the insurgency in the north and west of
Iraq. Al-Ahmed's final stop was Ramadi, where he distributed $500,000
to local insurgency leaders.

What is remarkable is the extent to which the U.S. is aware of
al-Ahmed's activities. "We know where Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed lives in
Damascus," says a U.S. intelligence official. "We know his phone
number. He believes he has the protection of the Syrian government,
and that certainly seems to be the case." But he hasn't been
aggressively pursued by the U.S. either--in part because there has
been a persistent and forlorn hope that al-Ahmed might be willing to
help negotiate an end to the Baathist part of the insurgency. A senior
U.S. intelligence officer says that al-Ahmed was called at least twice
by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi--an old acquaintance--and that a
representative of an "other government agency," a military euphemism
that usually means the CIA, "knocked on his door in 2004 and asked if
he was willing to talk. He wasn't."

STARTING OVER AGAIN

In the middle of 2004, the U.S. again changed its team in Baghdad.
Bremer and Sanchez left, replaced by Ambassador John Negroponte and
General George Casey. At the same time, there was a new transitional
Iraqi government, led by Iyad Allawi. Negroponte set up a joint
military-diplomatic team to review the situation in the country. The
consensus was that things were a mess, that little had been
accomplished on either the civilian or the military side and that
there was no effective plan for dealing with the insurgency. The new
team quickly concluded that the insurgency could not be defeated
militarily--but that it might be divided. The attempts to engage
potential allies like al-Ahmed became the unstated policy as U.S. and
Iraqi officials sought ways to isolate foreign terrorists like al-Zarqawi.

But progress in the effort to defuse the insurgency through dealmaking
has been slow--and in some cases has led the U.S. to ease pressure on
individuals tied to rebel groups. Consider the careful handling of
Harith al-Dhari, chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars and
one of Iraq's most important Sunni leaders. In late 2003, several
insurgent groups began to meet regularly in the Umm al-Qura mosque in
Baghdad, over which al-Dhari presides. According to U.S. intelligence
reports, al-Dhari--who has said he might encourage his organization to
take part in the democratic process--did not attend the meetings. But
his son Muthanna--who is thought to be an important link between the
nationalist and religious strains of the insurgency--did. In August
2004, the son was arrested after his car scanned positive for
explosives residue. But he was quickly released, a retired DIA analyst
says, under pressure from Iraq's government, to keep channels open to
his father. "It would be difficult to lure Harith into the tent if
Muthanna were in jail," says the former officer.

By April 2004, U.S. military-intelligence officers were also holding
face-to-face talks with Abdullah al-Janabi, a rebel leader from
Fallujah. The meetings ended after al-Zarqawi--who had taken up
residence in Fallujah--threatened to kill al-Janabi if the talks
continued, according to U.S. and Iraqi sources. But attempts to
negotiate with other insurgents are continuing, including with
Saddam's former religious adviser. So far, the effort has been futile.
"We keep hoping they'll come up with a Gerry Adams," says a U.S.
intelligence official, referring to the leader of the Irish Republican
Army's political wing. "But it just hasn't happened."

CIVIL WAR?

The leadership in Baghdad changed yet again this year. Negroponte left
Baghdad in March to become director of national intelligence. He was
replaced by Zalmay Khalilzad. But the turnover in the Iraqi government
was far more important: religious Shi'ites, led by Prime Minister
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, took charge, a severe irritant to many Sunnis.
"The insurgents see al-Jaafari as a traitor, a man who spent the
Iran-Iraq war in Iran," says a senior military officer. "And many of
the best officers we have trained in the new Iraqi army--Sunnis and
secular Shi'ites who served in Saddam's army--feel the same way."
Al-Jaafari did not help matters by opening diplomatic ties with Iran,
apologizing for Iraq's behavior in the Iran-Iraq war and cutting
economic deals with the Iranians.

In fact, some Iraq experts in the U.S. intelligence community have
come to the conclusion that Iraqis' courageous recent steps toward
democracy--the elections in January and the writing of a constitution
that empowers the religious Shi'ites and the Kurds (though it is
resoundingly opposed by the Sunnis)--have left the country in a more
precarious position. "The big conversation in our shop these days,"
says a military-intelligence officer, "is whether it would be a good
thing if the new constitution is voted down [in the public referendum]
next month."

Iraq experts in the intelligence community believe that the proposed
constitution, which creates autonomous regions for the Kurds and
Shi'ites in the oil-rich north and south, could heighten the chances
of an outright civil war. "A lot of us who have followed this thing
have come to the conclusion that the Sunnis are the wolves--the real
warriors--and the religious Shi'ites are the sheep," says an
intelligence officer. "The Sunnis have the power to maintain this
violence indefinitely."

Another hot debate in the intelligence community is whether to make a
major change in the counterinsurgency strategy--to stop the aggressive
sweeps through insurgent-riddled areas, like the recent offensive in
Tall 'Afar, and try to concentrate troops and resources with the aim
of improving security and living conditions in population centers like
Baghdad. "We've taken Samarra four times, and we've lost it four
times," says an intelligence officer. "We need a new strategy."

But the Pentagon leadership is unlikely to support a strategy that
concedes broad swaths of territory to the enemy. In fact, none of the
intelligence officers who spoke with TIME or their ranking superiors
could provide a plausible road map toward stability in Iraq. It is
quite possible that the occupation of Iraq was an unwise proposition
from the start, as many U.S. allies in the region warned before the
invasion. Yet, despite their gloom, every one of the officers favors
continuing--indeed, augmenting--the war effort. If the U.S. leaves,
they say, the chaos in central Iraq could threaten the stability of
the entire Middle East. And al-Qaeda operatives like al-Zarqawi could
have a relatively safe base of operations in the Sunni triangle. "We
have never taken this operation seriously enough," says a retired
senior military official with experience in Iraq. "We have never
provided enough troops. We have never provided enough equipment, or
the right kind of equipment. We have never worked the intelligence
part of the war in a serious, sustained fashion. We have failed the
Iraqi people, and we have failed our troops." --With reporting by
Brian Bennett/ Washington and Michael Ware/Baghdad





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