Posted on 08/19/2007 11:06:49 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
PBS, NY Times & Scott Riter promoted false history in Iraq
Have you seen this CNS news report posted at Laurie Mylroie's website? If you havent yet its time you should
http://www.lauriemylroie.com/
CNSNews Report:
Saddam Had WMD,
Extensive Terror Ties
By Scott Wheeler
The senior government official and source of the Iraqi intelligence memos, explained that the reason the documents have not been made public before now is that the government has ‘thousands and thousands of documents waiting to be translated
Quote from the article
“M14 is a reference to Iraqi intelligence directorate of special operations. The Iraqi documents obtained by CNSNews.com show a list of 92 individuals of various national origins who were described in the documents as having “finished the course at M14.”
According to Richard O. Spertzel M14 is in fact "Salman Pak" and who would know better than a member of the Iraq Survey Group?
“HAVE WAR CRITICS EVEN READ THE DUELFER REPORT?”
"It is asserted that Iraq was not supporting terrorists. Really? Documentation indicates that Iraq was training non-Iraqis at Salman Pak in terrorist techniques, including assassination and suicide bombing. In addition to Iraqis, trainees included Palestinians, Yemenis, Saudis, Lebanese, Egyptians and Sudanese."
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8195
Page 8 of this report a former UNSCOM inspector Jonathan B. Tucker includes Saddams stalling tactics specifically at Salman Pak
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yiFiR4ECvhEJ:cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol03/33/tucker33.pdf+documents+and+photographs+salman+pak&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us
MONITORING AND VERIFICATION IN A
NONCOOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT: LESSONS
FROM THE U.N. EXPERIENCE IN IRAQ
by Jonathan B. Tucker
The systematic destruction of evi- dence also took place at sites in- volved in the Iraqi BW program. Two weeks before the first UNSCOM biological inspection team visited the research laboratory at Salman Pak in August 1991, the Iraqis tore down several structures at the site that had survived the Coalition bombing campaign unscathed, including buildings hous- ing fermenters, an aerosol inhala- tion test chamber, and a small incinerator. The steel aerosol cham- ber was crushed and deposited at a dump several kilometers away. The Iraqis then bulldozed the site and covered it with fresh dirt to erase any remaining evidence. They also burned reams of documents, leav- ing melted looseleaf binders and piles of ashes scattered around the site. According to a member of the UNSCOM team that visited Salman Pak: Although the Iraqis were able to produce some origi- nal research papers and hand-drawn sketches of the layout of the buildings now reduced to rubble, they were unable to produce any documentary evidence to support their assertions, claiming that everything was destroyed by the bomb- ing. Although none of us wanted to admit it, one thing became painfully clear: the only thing we were going to get from the Iraqis was what they wanted to give us.
24 Impeding Inspections During no-notice inspections of sensitive sites, the Iraqi minders have found excuses ranging from transportation bottlenecks to bad weather to delay the U.N. team’s arrival and buy time to remove in- criminating evidence. Since inspec- tions of undeclared sites far from Baghdad require the use of a heli- copter to transport the inspection team, the Iraqi authorities insist on 15 hours’ notice to “stand down” their air defenses so that the U.N. helicopters can fly safely. Although inspection teams try to avoid reveal- ing the location of the target site by declaring a large block of airspace for the helicopter to fly through, the Iraqis still derive useful clues from the advance notice, particularly if they are concerned about a particu- lar clandestine facility within the declared zone.
25 On a few occa- sions, the Iraqis have also threat- ened to open fire on UNSCOM helicopters if they approach secure areas such as presidential palaces. Once the inspectors arrive on- site, plant managers sometimes refuse to provide requested docu- ments or give answers that are in- appropriate to the questions asked. Another common delaying tactic is for Iraqi officials to feign incom- prehension and request the services of an interpreter even though they are capable of speaking fluent En- glish in other situations.
U.N. inspection teams are gen- erally not allowed to interview more than a few senior engineers and technicians employed at an in- spected facility, regardless of the type of site visited. During plant walk-throughs, minders from the National Monitoring Directorate may prevent plant workers from re- sponding to inspector questions or pressure the few individuals who speak some English to work through an interpreter. In addition, the fact that the minders videotape all in- terviews has a chilling effect on the willingness of plant workers to speak freely.
At times, Iraqi stalling tactics have verged on intimidation. Dur- ing a biological weapons inspection at Salman Pak, for example, Iraqi soldiers deliberately placed live mu- nitions and a radioactive source in- side bunkers that were to be in- spected. In addition to frightening the UNSCOM inspectors, this tac- tic delayed the inspection until the ordnance had been removed and a nuclear expert had been called to check the radioactive source.
26 On another occasion, the Iraqi authorities tried to prevent the ex- cavation of a field near Salman Pak suspected of containing buried bio- logical munitions. The Iraqi officials brought in Moslem clergymen who spent two hours pleading with the UNSCOM team that the field was a grave site and that digging would be sacrilegious. Although the chief inspector finally ordered the exca- vation to proceed, only one trench had been completed before the back- hoe broke down and work had to cease because of the intense mid- day heat. On subsequent days the clergymen did not return and the excavation proceeded, but no in- criminating evidence was found.
Now if you look at what Scott Ritter was quoted saying in the BBC article titled "Reporters Visit Suspect Iraqi Sites" we have quite a story. We can now ask questions why Seymour Hersh and the NY Times became so interested in discrediting intelligence. Maybe even including why the Docex project received a lot of heat from the NY Times and had to shut down?
Scott Ritter Quotes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2247658.stm
‘No terrorism training’
The former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter accompanied the journalists to Salman Pak.
He said there was obviously no terrorism training taking place there - a site he said the US was ready to go to war for.
The journalists were shown an old Iraqi plane abandoned in a field, which Mr Ritter said was used by Iraqi security forces to train for rescuing passengers from hijacked planes.
“Any nation that has an airline industry trains people to rescue those who have been on aircraft that have been hijacked,” he said.
“If there is a time and a place to go to war I will be there,” he said.
“But I am not going to go to war based on a fabrication, especially from politically motivated Iraqi defectors who intend to misuse the tragedy of 11 September by saying somehow those who perpetrated that crime were trained here.”
PBS made a ridiculous retraction on the defectors used in their Gunning for Saddam report. They conveniently threw the men they interviewed in their documentary underneath the bus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
PBS deciding to discredit these Iraqi men and neglected to note the news conference on Salman Pak by BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS with many other dicoveries corroberated their evidence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
WAR NEWS UPDATE
April 6, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/warupdate_04-06.html
“BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS: That’s just one of a number of examples we’ve found where there’s training activity happening inside Iraq. It reinforces the likelihood of links between this regime and external terrorist organizations, clear links with common interests. Some of these fighters came from Sudan, some from Egypt and other places and we killed a number of them and have captured a number of them and that’s where some of the information came from”
Now it is time to ask PBS, The NY Times and Scott Ritter questions why their information looks twisted.
Ping
Ping
You would think after being outed as a pedophile, the MSM would stop using Scott Ritter as source.
and we were welcomed with flowers and oil is paying for everything.
“It is asserted that Iraq was not supporting terrorists. Really? Documentation indicates that Iraq was training non-Iraqis at Salman Pak in terrorist techniques, including assassination and suicide bombing. In addition to Iraqis, trainees included Palestinians, Yemenis, Saudis, Lebanese, Egyptians and Sudanese.”
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8195
Page 8 of this report a former UNSCOM inspector Jonathan B. Tucker includes Saddams stalling tactics specifically at Salman Pak
PBS made a ridiculous retraction on the defectors used in their Gunning for Saddam report. They conveniently threw the men they interviewed in their documentary underneath the bus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
PBS deciding to discredit these Iraqi men and neglected to note the news conference on Salman Pak by BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS with many other dicoveries corroberated their evidence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
WAR NEWS UPDATE
April 6, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/warupdate_04-06.html
We were greeted with flowers.
Sic ‘em
So, PBS (Democrat house network and home of the convicted drunk, Bill Moyers), the dying (and shrinking!) Democrat house publication, the NY Times, and the disgusting pedophile, Scott Ritter, have collaborated on a lie?
Surprise, surprise. Peas in a pod.
I can’t find a place to start reading this story that makes sense to me.
Is there a link to the CNSNews article?
“and we were welcomed with flowers and oil is paying for everything.”
I thought we were imperialists and Bush was Hitler.
Why? The MSM is pro-pedophile, aren’t they?
Your so old fashioned;)
Yeah, I thought he was busy looking for dates down by the school bus stop.
The way America haters use that as their little joke to bash us is as cruel it gets.
It has actually enhanced his credibility with the msm. Used to be that he was just a White male and an ex-Marine (yes, murtha, there are ex-marines). Now he is a member of an oppressed group that is being denied civil rights.
Funding PBS so that they can be a echo chamber for the left is just wrong.
“You would think after being outed as a pedophile, the MSM would stop using Scott Ritter as source.”
In the minds of those in the MSM, being a pedophile is symptomatic of being a progressive thinker.
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