* The official reason for the wholesale
annihilation of Baghdad’s phone system was to sever Saddam’s
ability to communicate with his elite commandos. But after the war,
U.S. interrogators conducted extensive “interviews” with top Iraqi
prisoners and discovered that for years Saddam had been convinced
that spies were tracking him through his phone calls and therefore
had used a phone only twice in the previous thirteen years. As
usual, reliable intelligence wasn’t necessary; there would be
plenty of ready money for Bechtel to build a new system.
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