Wide Open Secret Coup

LEAKS about PsyOps (psychological warfare operations) and other American covert operations to bring about a palace coup in Iraq are reaching flood tide. If there is anything in these leaks from unnamed American officials, no covert operation has ever been more overt. This is not one of your sneaky secret operations (like the Iran affair). Anonymous officials want everyone to be clear that it hasn’t preceded, it has followed, a formal presidential “finding” and notification of Congress.

On December 15, Saddam took formal notice of the “daily” Western reports about an imminent military coup against him in an Iraqi TV broadcast. Noting that the West was seeking agents for such a coup in his inner circle, he volunteered himself to be its leader. And Ibrahim Izzat, one of the military officers seated with him, could act as deputy.

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LEAKS about PsyOps (psychological warfare operations) and other American covert operations to bring about a palace coup in Iraq are reaching flood tide. If there is anything in these leaks from unnamed American officials, no covert operation has ever been more overt. This is not one of your sneaky secret operations (like the Iran affair). Anonymous officials want everyone to be clear that it hasn’t preceded, it has followed, a formal presidential “finding” and notification of Congress.

On December 15, Saddam took formal notice of the “daily” Western reports about an imminent military coup against him in an Iraqi TV broadcast. Noting that the West was seeking agents for such a coup in his inner circle, he volunteered himself to be its leader. And Ibrahim Izzat, one of the military officers seated with him, could act as deputy.