Posted on 03/21/2006 9:59:48 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Arabic original shows the Falcon emblem of the Iraq Intelligence Service. A translation is provided if you scroll down. I highlight the key wording but there is more:
March 11, 2003
The al-Quds liberation army division supplied us with information....as follows.
1. The Iraqi government will distribute the same leaflets that the American forces are distributing but it will contain anthrax.
2. Iraq imports uniforms resembling American forces uniforms for the purpose of killing Iraqi citizens....
3. Dig trenches around Baghdad...oil...burning...cause mayhem
Now this letter is from al-Quds, a Jihad organization that supports the Palestinians. Saddam was the patriarch and Iraq officers worked closely with them.
IZSP-2003-00000859 also talks about the al-Quds Basra division. This is a a letter from a paramilitary organization INSIDE Iraq and not from Palestinian territories. The al-Quds in Iraq are Palestinians who live in Iraq and also are involved in Palestinian activities. They fought for Saddam because Saddam supported them in Palestine. The officers were Iraqi.
The al-Quds are covering their own butts by telling the IIS what they have been ordered to do or even trying to get them to stop Saddam since the war is immanent. If Saddam wanted to kill Iraqis with anthrax to make it look like the U.S. did it, it would be wise for him to use Palestinians instead of Iraqis. Therefor, it makes sense that he ordered the al-Quds to do it.
(Excerpt) Read more at rayrobison.typepad.com ...
reminds me of the joke:
The Pope is visiting Washington, D.C., and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac, sailing on the Presidential yacht. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.
Secret Service guys start to launch a boat, but president Bush waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry." Bush then steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Holy Father's little hat, bends over picks it up, then walks back to the yacht and climbs aboard. He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence.
The next morning, the headlines in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution, Washington Post, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, Houston Chronicle, Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle all proclaim: "Bush Can't Swim!"
The issue....?
Yep...lol. And THAT 'news item' would be repeated AD NAUSEUM for weeks!!!
ROFL!!!
Ray stated: But in another discussion it came up that Sawa also means together and that this word is not necessarily restricted to referencing the radio station.
I like that jveritas errs on the side of caution. If the meaning is not 100% clear, do not pick the worst of all possible meanings. That is simply bias.
Update!
See above...many posts....start at #54!
No kidding?
You did it?
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Then save your eyes and just read the italic paragraph in the top post at http://iraqdocs.blogspot.com/
That is the same document as Ray Robison is referencing regarding anthrax.
Get you a POWERFUL computer....I recomment an AMD64 X2 3800+ at least.....and one of those fancy programs that converts documents to sound via your soundcard and speakers.....give your eyes a rest.
Thank you.
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Wonder if it as simple as just asking them if they broadcast the anthrax alligations?
Sadly, it really doesn't matter what is found... or how accurate the translations are. The Pentagon and Negroponte have already said they can't vouch for the authenticity of the documents.
Regarding WMDs and Iraq, please think about the following FACTS: when Saddam gassed the Kurds and Iranians he had WMDs and would never have used even 50% of such weaponry in those actions because he would reserve more for retaliations; tons of African yellow cake discovered in 2003 in Iraq were not there to refine power station radioactive materials; the Russians were doing all they could to aid and abet Saddam as a means to harm the U.S. and there are data showing Russian cargo movements out of Iraq just prior to our invasion of Saddam's country.
The Quds liberation army supplied us with information (open source) (impaired broadcast) as follow:
The right translation shall be:
The Missan division in the Al Quds army provided us with information (Public Sources) (Radio SAWA) that says the following:”
The first translation can lead to misinterpreting the whole document because it give a wrong impression of what is (impaired broadcast) thinking it is some type of Iraqi military broadcasting or signals where in reality it is a Pro-US Radio called SAWA.
Saddam had already allowed the Rusians to move the WMDs out of Iraq because their existence would have proven Russian complicity in Saddam's acquisition of same ... well beyond our own supplying him in the eighties.
So now Jveritas has gone beyond original translation, beyond what the New York Times called 'second guessing' and he is now 'correcting' the government field translation. Let me guess, even the New York Times will complain about that somehow.
You might have an interest in this:
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030820-081256-6822r.htm
"The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them "disappear." Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia's topnotch "retired"generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam's Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. 'I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee,' was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were there orchestrating Iraq's "Sarindar" plan."
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