The New Archeologists
THE SECRET OF NIMRUD
JIACG Recovers Treasures of Nimrud
Melted down treasures...
Nimrud's Crown...
Gold lust in the eyes...
Who is JIACG?
JIACG - Joint Interagency Coordination Group
A safe taken from a Baath Party controlled building is blown open by an American specialist team now working in southern Iraq. Now the military campaign is nearing its end, the hunt for proof of Saddam Hussein's guilt is intensifying. The search has started in Iraq's only deep water port, Umm Qasr. The thinking is clear - developing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons programs would have required technical equipment imported from the US, Europe, Japan, Russia or China, and the paper trail is likely to start here. In amongst phones and office equipment are files, ledger books and floppy disks taken away for analysis.
Blowing the safe ripped the hinges from the doors. This is the operations room of the Joint Interagency Coordination Group, JIACG for short.
This is part of a team of 80 now deployed across the region and drawn from agencies with expertise in counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction and sanctions busting. 25 are drawn from the US Department of Defense, military intelligence and nuclear, biological and chemical weapons experts. But 55 out of the 80 are non-military, undercover customs investigators and the CIA. 'News Night' understands that British intelligence officers from MI6 are part of the team. We agreed to disguise the identity of some operatives while filming this report. The JIACG intelligence team has never been filmed before. US Central Command gave 'News Night' access partly to prove to the Iraqi people that the coalition is intent on finding evidence against the dictator and those countries which broke sanctions imposed after the last Gulf War. This man, known simply as 'Chief', is a senior member of the team.

DoD photo by Helene C. Stikkel (Released)
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, USMC, conducts a Pentagon press briefing on Sept. 10, 2003. Bogdano, the leader of the team investigating the looting of Iraqi antiquities during Operation Iraqi Freedom, discusses his findings.
But hey now... we are only in Iraq to keep the piece... its NOT a War, remeber? We are NOT AT WAR WITH IRAQ....
That's why its called Operation Iraqi Freedom