The United States has hired officers from Saddam Hussein's feared and notorious Mukhabarat intelligence service to provide information about people who may be involved in resistance attacks and guerrilla strikes against American forces and international targets.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=436895 This is not the first time this sotrt of thing has happened. The US also hired former Nazi intelligence people just after World War 2 to fight "communism". See the book "Blowback" by Christopher Simpson (Collier) for more on that episode.
