[JohnGalt]

Whoever let this scoundrel Chalabi infect the institutions of our fair republic must be held accountable.

[MoralSense]

Caution, here. This story has all the earmarks of a disgruntled State Dept/CIA plant -- in other words, it comes from elements in those departments that have opposed modernization of the military and other Bush administration policies. And if you've bought the notion of Chalabi as a "scoundrel," you've bought that point of view.

[JohnGalt]

*ping*

[Paradox]

I dont doubt that some of this stuff happened. Hey, they were eager to get rid of Saddam. Its too bad that Saddam was bad enough to want to get rid of without having to resort to this sort of thing. It taints things a bit. Its like a bogus drug charge against Jeffrey Dahmer.

[LibFreeUSA]

So what! Who cares!

This intelligence crap is a BIG SO WHAT - except for those who want to discredit the effort to remove this enemy.

We have removed one less enemy that we should have removed 10 years earlier.

[RandallFlagg]

The assertions in the articles reinforced President Bush's claims that Saddam Hussein should be ousted because he was in league with Osama bin Laden,---

Bush NEVER said that!!!!

[El Gato]

Another defector told one interviewer that the aircraft fuselage on which Islamic extremists received training in hijacking belonged to a Boeing 707 and was quoted in a later story as saying that it came from a Russian-made Tupolev.

What difference does it make? When US Marines captured Salman Pak, the fuselage was there, just as the informers said it was, just as UN inspectors said it was, and as the satellite imagery no doubt showed it was and it was not from a 707. There were also a blown bus, 3 old train cars, and other evidence of use as terrorist training facility. See this AP article from nearly a year ago.

The place was also crawling with non Iraqi "fighters", that is terrorists, who tried to engage the Marines, although by the time the Marines captured the place, they were no longer there (of course not, since they had come out to engage the Marines, some are probably still around killing civilians, Westerners as well as Iraqis) The capture was mentioned just last night on the History Channel's "one year later" series on the invasion of Iraq.

[goldstategop]

A hit piece against Iraq's democrats. Why, how dare they make fools of the partisan media! And hell hath no greater fury than a partisan media that finds itself being outfoxed in the public relations battle by its adversaries.