CNSNews.com Publishes Iraqi Intelligence Docs

CNSNews ^ | October 11, 2004 | David Thibault

[Quilla]

When CNSNews.com published an article Monday, Oct. 4, entitled, "Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties," we decided against publishing all 42 pages of the Iraqi intelligence documents in our possession and on which the article was based.

We published only the first page, fearing that if more were made widely available on the Internet, they might end up being altered or otherwise manipulated. We offered credentialed news organizations and counter-terrorism experts the opportunity to view and receive copies of the documents so that they might check for themselves on the authenticity of the documents and judge their importance in the debate over whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and/or had ties to international terrorist organizations.

Several news organizations did just that. But in light of other assertions on Wednesday, widely reported by the mainstream media, that Saddam did not pose any significant threat prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we felt it was time to publish as many of the Iraqi intelligence documents as possible.

What follows are copies of 24 of the 42 pages that are in our possession. Pages 21 through 26 were not published because they contain a list of terrorists trained at a camp belonging to the Iraqi Intelligence Directorate. CNSNews.com hopes to glean more information about the individuals on this list and provide updates in the future on their activities and whereabouts. Pages 29 through 40 were excluded because they replicate, though in a different person's handwriting, earlier documents.

Upon clicking on the individual pages of Arabic documents, readers will have an opportunity to click on the unedited English translation of those documents. We hope this serves to further illuminate a very important element of the ongoing debate.

Page 1: Jan. 18, 1993 memo from Saddam Hussein, through his secretary, to the Iraqi Intelligence Service, urging that missions be undertaken to "hunt down Americans," especially in Somalia.

Pages 2-12: Jan. 25, 1993 memo from the Iraqi Intelligence Service to Saddam Hussein, outlining the existing or developing relationships between Iraq and terrorist organizations.
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Page 13: Feb. 8, 1993 response from Saddam Hussein to the Jan. 25, 1993 memo.

Pages 14, 15: March 11, 1993 memo from the Iraqi Intelligence Service detailing plans for a meeting with "one of the leaders from the Egyptian Al-Jehad" terrorist organization.
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Page 16: March 16, 1993 response from Saddam's secretary to the March 11, 1993 memo.

Pages 17, 18: March 18, 1993 memo from the Iraqi Intelligence Service detailing plans to "move against the Egyptian regime" of Hosni Mubarak.
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Pages 19-20: Iraqi Intelligence Service internal memos regarding the information of individuals who participated at "the martyr act camp" belonging to the Iraqi intelligence directorate.
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Pages 21-26: They comprise a list of terrorists trained at a camp belonging to the Iraqi Intelligence Directorate.
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Pages 27, 28: Notes from the Iraqi Intelligence Service outlining strategies. Included is the assessment that terrorist "efforts should be concentrated on Egypt." The notes also advise against targeting the U.S. military, but recommend targeting "Americans as general" as well as "US agents inside the (Egyptian) regime."
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Page 29-40: Duplicative of pages 2-12, except in a different person's handwriting.

Page 41: Table indicating Sept. 6, 2000 acquisition of malignant pustule (anthrax) as well as sterilization/decontamination equipment.

Page 42: Table indicating Aug. 21, 2000 acquisition of mustard gas as well as protective equipment.

[TomEwall]

From the Kerry Spot:

"I have little new to report about this, other than a Defense Department official suggesting to me to be cautious about these documents. I suspect that the U.S. has found other documents in the past that didn't check out."

[rwfromkansas]

Send it to Jim Angle....he responds to me whenever I send a news tip or something:

jim.angle@foxnews.com

[BushisTheMan]

USA phones do not work in other countries. It seems fairly logical to me that he would leave it in the US where it might have been used by someone else (while he was out of town).

Why carry a cell phone to a country you cannot use it in.
I leave mine behind every time I go to Italy where I have a cell phone that uses a SIM card.

[Peach]

What a great point!

[spycatcher]

According to John Kerry, your must choose only one reason for invading Iraq. Having more than one disqualifies the whole war makes you a liar.

[Rockitz]

I have seen nothing of this on FOX. What gives? This story originally came out on 4 October! Geeez....

[satchmodog9]

bump

[BushisTheMan]

No matter what logical and correct thing the President says, the DNC spin machine will lie about it.

No matter what logical and correct thing the President says, Kerry will look you in the face and say the President "lied" and he has a better plan.

[tdadams]

Let's hope the 'blogosphere' unleashes on this ubiquitously in the next three weeks.

Kerry is hammering that going into Iraq was unjust and I get the sense people are starting to buy it. This needs to be seen.