(CNN) Barbara Starr - U.S. officials said Wednesday that "secret surrender" negotiations have begun with key Iraqi military officials in hopes some military units will not fight the U.S. One senior official said some elements of the Iraqi military may have already agreed not to fight. According to assessments by both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, the leadership around Saddam Hussein is "brittle." The U.S. has already dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets with specific instructions on how to position units so they are not considered hostile.
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