Directorate 14

Headquartered in Salman Pak, this branch was one of the largest and most important directorates within the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and was responsible for the most secret and sensitive operations undertaken outside of Iraq, including espionage and assassination.

It is also reported to have occasionally worked with the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

According to the Iraq Survey Group report:[1] M14, directed by Muhammad Khudayr Sabah Al Dulaymi, was responsible for training and conducting special operations missions.

Sources to date have not been able to provide sufficient details regarding the “Challenge Project.”The report also stated that the Directorate was engaged in assassination attempts, including those of US President George H. W. Bush and Husayn Kamil,[5] an Iraqi defector.

[3] Soon after the 2003 invasion, Newsweek reported that a memo from the Directorate, dated October 29, 2002, raised the possibility that they had an informant inside the US intelligence community before the war: "one of our sources in the United States, with a high level of reliability, says the CIA and the so-called opposition have a joint plan to bring 'quislings' to Iraq from the north and south to gather information and await future missions.