"...The fact that German BND agents were cooperating with the Iraqi secret services will not come as a surprise to those familiar with the BND's history. Already in January 2006, German intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom noted that during the Iraq War the BND "undoubtedly maintained its very good contacts with the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein." "At the same time," Schmidt-Eenboom added, "it was under pressure, in the context of a political ice age between Washington and Berlin, not to let its contacts with the Defense Intelligence Agency completely die out" (source: Interview with the Berlin weekly Jungle World). In April 2003, moreover, the British daily The Telegraph published an Iraqi document detailing a cordial January 2002 meeting between a representative of German intelligence and Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush..."
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