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Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation ^[e]
Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]
Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. ^[e]

Scorpions (Iraq War) [r]: One of several Central Intelligence Agency teams intended to destabilize Saddam Hussein before the Iraq War; ineffective before the war, and involved in the death of a prisoner in interrogation after the active combat phase ^[e]
ROCKSTARS (Iraq War) [r]: A Sufi Muslim group in Iraq, providing human-source intelligence and performing covert action in Central Intelligence Agency before the Iraq War, as part of the DBANABASIS program ^[e]
Peshmerga [r]: Literally "one who faces death" in the Kurdish language, both an umbrella term for Anti-Saddam insurgents in Kurdish Iraq, and for the fighters in the Greater Kurdistan movement ^[e]
Iraq Freedom Force [r]: A guerrilla force, recruited by Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, recruited to fight in the Iraq War; United States Central Command officers did not trust or want the force. ^[e]