This committee, composed of members of Iraqi security forces and of U.S. intelligence, launches an investigation against Brigadier Majid’s Tracking and Pursuit Department. It concludes its inquiry by denouncing the presence of astrologers in a department that was meant to pursue administrative work. Ultimately, it fires the entire staff. It also interrogates “the writer,” destroys his novel, and prohibits him from rewriting it, because it reveals some of the Department’s secret activities.
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Top Secret: Final Report
In 2005, a special Committee investigates the activities of the Iraqi Tracking and Pursuit Department, associated in part with the...
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...Majid, these employees were in charge of anticipating “security incidents” in or around Baghdad. The Committee remains uncertain whether such predictions were accurate and actually helped avoid certain violent events.
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The Committee also notes that confidential files from the department were illegally divulged via e-mail to a...
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After this analysis, the Committee provides some recommendations. They recommend firing the astrologers and fortune-tellers and removing Brigadier Majid from...
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Chapter 17: The Explosion
...section of the department in order to avoid future problems. Two weeks later, a special Committee interrogates Brigadier Majid about the department’s activities. He realizes that, instead of receiving a promotion,...
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In the meantime, a Committee interrogates Brigadier Majid at length. Afterward, the Brigadier fires all of his staff members, because...
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Chapter 18: The Writer
...the time of his arrest, of 17 chapters. Although he was treated amiably by a committee of Iraqi and American officers, they ultimately prohibited him from rewriting his novel. The writer...
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