Pentagon secret unit helped find Saddam

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, January 24, 2005 · Last updated 1:14 p.m. PT

Pentagon secret unit helped find Saddam

By ROBERT BURNS
AP MILITARY WRITER

WASHINGTON -- When U.S. troops pulled Saddam Hussein 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 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 that narrowed the search for Saddam and led eventually to the cramped underground chamber where he was hiding.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Pentagon%20Spy%20Teams

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[rockedthevoteinMA]

1. Let me get this straight...

First the WP does an article on this "Secret Unit" ... then this AM it gets denied that it even exists in another paper ... and now at 4:15, they are saying this unit is responsible for finding Saddam? :shrug:

Well which is it? :wtf:

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2. duplicate topic

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3. duplicate

discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1179327