It seems that, despite the toppling and the imprisonment of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis still live in fear.
Saddam Hussein's Mukhabarat secret police have created a new "republic of fear", former Baathist agents are hunting down those who work for and voice support for the new U.S. backed government.
Many officials and security personnel in the new administration have been killed, in wave of daily attacks.
Saddam's Baathist supporters, created a state modelled on Stalin's Soviet police state; they had planned for an underground war against US occupiers.
Something which the CIA and other intelligence organisations should, had they being doing their job, have known about and planned for.
The primary reason for the rising tide of insurgency, from the former state security, is the fact that the US administration disbanded the Iraqi army; thereby creating a "talent pool" of trained fighters.
The blame for this mess can be laid full square at the feet of those who took the decision to invade Iraq, without having any effective plan as to what to do after they had decapitated the regime.
The Iraqis are now paying for that criminal and irresponsible lacking of planning with their own blood.
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