Dave DeBatto Biography

Prior to deployment to Iraq Dave had been an Army Instructor in the Army’s Counterintelligence Agent course and also served as a German linguist in signals intelligence (SIGINT). While serving in the Sunni Triangle area of Iraq his team's responsibilities included; tracking down the infamous 55 Playing Card Iraqi fugitives searching for WMD as well as high level Ba'ath Party and top Iraqi military leaders. His team's intelligence collection efforts lead to the capture of one of the 55 as well as the capture of several Iraqi generals top intelligence operatives assassins and large caches of conventional weapons and warehouses full of top-secret documents.
Dave or “Daoud” as the Iraqi’s called him developed close working relationships and the trust of several top Iraqi leaders and was able because of those relationships to obtain information not available to other American officials military or civilian. His weekly tribal council meetings which involved as many as fifteen sheiks of several competing tribes was the largest and most successful of such gatherings in the entire Iraqi theater of operation. Paul Bremer began to attempt to host similar meetings although on a much smaller scale sometime later.
Dave was wounded during an intelligence-gathering mission near Camp Anaconda Iraq in late 2003 and spent almost six months in several U.S. Army hospitals undergoing rehabilitation therapy before being medically retired in the spring of 2004.

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