Saddam Regime Document: Give CNN the Priority for Coverage (Translation)

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[jveritas]

In this Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7 2001, there was a discussion in upper echelon of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves as the results massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm Operation. What is also interesting about this document is that it mentions how to give the priority of covering the story to CNN so it will have an effect on the international arena as the documents says.

I did a partial translation of the document highlight the statement related to CNN in bold letters in the body of the translation. The rest of this 3 pages document that I did not translate will go into further deception on how to make big military funerals for the people in the mass graves though out all the Iraq provinces and how high level state officials will participate in these funerals.

Beginning of the Partial Translation

The Republic of Iraq

The Intelligence Apparatus

Date: 7/2/2001

No 1687

In the Name of God the Merciful the Most Compassionate

Secret

To the respectful Mr. Director of the Fourth Directory

Your letter secret and immediate numbered B 264 on 2/4/2001

1. No information is available to us about the Mass Graves in the Southern Region.

2.We see to achieve the observation the following matters:

A. Inspect the graves to confirm the existence of Nuclear Radiations.

B. Were they buried alive or their death was by suffocation.

C. Are they military personnel or civilians.

D. Are there tombstones that carry the names of the martyrs

E. Identify accurate marks and proofs of the graves and the possibility to reach it quickly and identify it.

3. We do not agree that the declaration about it through a direct Iraqi media in the first stage at least and not to cause public and party reaction so that the subject will take as a priority an international interest, and we should work on the following direction during this stage:

A. Leak the news through reliable sources.. News agencies or Satellite stations.. and that there is confusion, and indications from the members of the Coalition forces about the existence of mass graves civilians and military personnel in the South of Iraq.

B. The attempt to search for soldiers from the Coalition forces in a serious way to mention these truth through the agencies.

(1-3)

C. Ask some of the friendly countries with good technology to find these graves and for sure it will be asked from some news agencies in these countries to humanly participate in this effort and in case it is discovered there will be media reactions internationally and foreign and this media must be given a big space to repeat it and leak it to take its natural form of influence on the countries that made this bad deed and give it to the international general opinion.

D. Not to dig these grave by the Iraqi side… and it is possible to make a dialogue with the CNN channel to give them a priority on this subject to have an influence over the international arena and it will be accepted more than the Iraqi media.

End of Partial Translation

[BallyBill]

As paranoid as Saddam was at least he could rely on CNN to cover his backside. Castro's favorite too IIRC.

CNN and the UN, out of the USA!

[FairOpinion]

It appears that 'eyespysomething ' already has a ping list on the Saddam documents, "prewardocs" key word, I found it after my post. I just sent FReepmail to ESS to get on the list.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603696/posts?page=9#9

[jazusamo]

Thank you so much jveritas for all your hard work. I know it is appreciated by all of us. :-)

[Calpernia]

Not to dig these grave by the Iraqi side… and it is possible to make a dialogue with the CNN channel to give them a priority on this subject to have an influence over the international arena and it will be accepted more than the Iraqi media.

[april15Bendovr]

 
 
CNN should be subpoenaed in Saddam Hussein trial
By Doug Schmitz



http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_10597.shtml

[jveritas]

Same here.

[jveritas]

If you CNN in the US is bad try to hear CNN international. When I travel abroad on business I am stuck with this CNN International in my hotel rooms. It is the ultimate Hate USA network.

[MizSterious]

Remember the "Baby Milk Factory" fiasco? CNN gave a lot of coverage to that, did their best to give the US a black eye over it. And then there was Peter Arnett...

[FairOpinion]

The MSM does a good job to bury inconvenient news, inconvenient for them, that is.

[april15Bendovr]

You have to wonder why people are leaving CNN to join Al Jazeera?

[jveritas]

Not yet, however I did one page translation of an Iraqi intelligence document saying that the Kurds told a US delegation who visited in 2002 the part of Northern Iraq under Kurdish control that Saddam is training AL Qaeda terrorists at Salman Pak.

[jveritas]

Not a big difference in the agenda between CNN and Al Jazeera, it is the same: Hate America.

[MizSterious]

Indeed. Today's Daily Oklahoman, in fact, has a stack of letters to the editor claiming we went to war with Iraq because of lies, and/or for the wrong reasons. I'm going to quote some of these translations in a letter of my own. It's time the public started seeing the truth.

[jveritas]

Thank you very much, I am just a humble freeper :) Please spread the truth.

[baseballmom]

bumping. Thank you, jveritas for all your hard work in getting these docs translated and made public.

[FairOpinion]

Laurie Mylroie talks about it and seems there are some other documents. (?)

"When American marines took over Salman Pak in early April 2003, they indeed
found the terrorist training camp, the airplane, and the foreign terrorists.
An American military spokesman affirmed, "The nature of the work being done
by some of those people we captured. ..gives us the impression that there is
terrorist training that was conducted at Salman Pak." The marines "inferred"
that the airplane "was used to practice hijacking," the Associated Press
reported. Saddam's apologists claim the camp was for counterterrorism
training, but that seems highly improbable.

Iraqi documents, dating from January to May 1993, suggest that Baghdad's
training of terrorists goes back over a decade - at least to the period
following Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. That training was
interrupted by the 1991 war, but appears to have resumed not long
afterwards.

These documents, leaked by a Pentagon official to Scott Wheeler of Cybercast
News Service, are posted on its Web site. Bruce Tefft, a retired CIA
counter-terrorism official who worked on Iraq; MEMRI's Nimrod Raphaeli;
Middle East scholar Walid Phares; and this author have all expressed their
confidence in the documents' authenticity. They are on official Iraqi
letterhead and are essentially a 40-page correspondence between Iraqi
intelligence and Saddam's office."


http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8453

[baseballmom]

Backhoe, are you by chance keeping track of these translations threads?

Thanks.

[jveritas]

You are doing a great job by spreading the truth. This Free Republic forum is where we get the truth and spread it for everyone to hear and see.

[jveritas]

Exactly right.

[april15Bendovr]

I believe their motto is "The news you can count on."

Its more like "The news you can count on being Anti American"