In 1963 Saddam's Ba'ath party violently deposed the leftist administration of Abd al-Karim Qasim, slaughtering thousands of communists with the help of lists provided courtesy of the CIA. (The Guardian 2014)

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If I lived in a desert a bath party would sound pretty appealing to me too. Maybe some of the dirty girls in swimming burkas with flash me some ankle.

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Well the US government and the CIA had a lot to do with the terrorists cells that eventually became the comic book villains the media tends to portray them as. Operation Cyclone comes to mind, this event involved the CIA and Saddam working together.

It's an article from the Guardian talking about the operations that the CIA and Saddam did together.