Washington is drawing up plans for a new Iraqi intelligence service, which will be trained, financed and equipped by the US' CIA - with assistance from Jordan - reported the US daily Washington Post on 11 December. The new service, which will aim to gather intelligence on targets inside Iraq that are planning and carrying out attacks against coalition forces, will be headed by the Interior Minister, Nouri Badran - a member of the Iraqi National Accord (INA). According to the report, Badran and Ayad Alawi, the leader of the INA, are spending a number of days at the CIA's headquarters in the US to discuss the details of the plans.