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Pentagon ousts official who tied Russia, Iraq arms
The Washington Times ^ | December 30, 2004 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 12/31/2004 3:49:21 AM PST by Mr. Conor

A Pentagon official who publicly disclosed information showing Russian involvement in moving Iraqi weapons out of that country has been dismissed.

John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security and formerly an aide to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was forced to leave his position Dec. 10 as the result of a "reorganization" that eliminated his job, defense officials said.

Mr. Shaw said he had been asked to resign for "exceeding his authority" in disclosing the information, a charge he called "specious."

In October, Mr. Shaw told The Washington Times that he had received foreign intelligence data showing that Russian special forces units were involved in an effort to remove Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 200410; 200412; 20041210; billgertz; iraq; johnashaw; johnshaw; putin; russia; russianconvoy; shaw; wmd
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1 posted on 12/31/2004 3:49:21 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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To: Mr. Conor

The search engine is our friend.


2 posted on 12/31/2004 3:54:55 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: Mr. Conor

Meester Shaw's credibility is in the ol' trashcan...


3 posted on 12/31/2004 3:59:00 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Mr. Conor

Already posted here, including more info on Shaw:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310814/posts


4 posted on 12/31/2004 4:01:09 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Mr. Conor
Sounds like Mr Shaw is not familiar with the old saying Loose lips sink ships.

BTW - I knew that this was posted yesterday, but had a heck of a time finding it with the Search feature. Finally had to resort to searching by Keyword "Shaw". Here is the original post with 60+ comments.

5 posted on 12/31/2004 4:02:52 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (If guns kill people then forks made Micheal Moore fat.)
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To: leadpenny
The search engine is our friend.

The search engine is not working at 100% capacity.

6 posted on 12/31/2004 4:13:39 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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Bull! Word for word, I checked it before I posted to you.


7 posted on 12/31/2004 4:15:59 AM PST by leadpenny
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GPS jammers? Not many countries that build them, nor were they around in 1990. Iraq had them.

I don't think the Russians are playing against us as much as they are just hard up for cash (Now it's begining to get better) so they were willing to make crummy deals with rough nations or even potential enemies like China.

Red6


8 posted on 12/31/2004 4:17:27 AM PST by Red6
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To: Semper Vigilantis
Here's assorted duplicates and variants of the story [Shaw has been a busy, busy, busy little weasel...and someone seems pretty desperate to want to put out this info]:

Bill Gertz : Russia Tied to Iraq's Missing Arms

!!! Russia Tied to Iraq's Missing Arms (WASHINGTON TIMES FRONT PAGE OCT 28TH - MUST SEE!!!)

DRUDGE- Russia tied to Iraq´s missing arms; Pentagon- Weaponry relocated before war

Another Drudge Siren..Weapons tied to Russia

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms (10-28-04)4

Russia tied to Iraq´s missing arms; Pentagon- Weaponry relocated before war

RUSSIA TIED TO IRAQ'S MISSING ARMS

Gertz- Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms

Related:

Pentagon Ousts Official Who Tied Russia, Iraq Arms

Pentagon Ousts Official Who Tied Russia, Iraq Arms

9 posted on 12/31/2004 4:18:23 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: leadpenny
Bull! Word for word, I checked it before I posted to you.

I really don't care what you think. I did use the search engine and came up empty.

10 posted on 12/31/2004 4:19:15 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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I don't want you to care what I "think." I'd just like you to do a proper search and be big enough to take criticism. Bugger off!


11 posted on 12/31/2004 4:22:26 AM PST by leadpenny
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I don't want you to care what I "think." I'd just like you to do a proper search and be big enough to take criticism. Bugger off!

I did a proper search. GET A LIFE!

12 posted on 12/31/2004 4:25:08 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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To: Mr. Conor
Searching on 'Pentagon' brought up both posted articles for me. It's best not to use the complete title when searching, I've found.

Welcome to FR, btw!

13 posted on 12/31/2004 4:25:58 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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Searching on 'Pentagon' brought up both posted articles for me.

I searched for threads with "Pentagon" in the title and found nothing. Go figure.

14 posted on 12/31/2004 4:27:53 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=Pentagon%20ousts%20official%20who%20tied%20Russia%2C%20Iraq%20arms

An exact title search did this. Still does.

If you had any class you would have asked the mods to delete your thread when I first pointed it out to you.


15 posted on 12/31/2004 4:32:21 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny; Mr. Conor
Not to worry, I asked the mods for him! ;>)

If [Mr. Conor] had any class [Mr. Conor] would have asked the mods to delete [Mr. Conor's] thread when I first pointed it out to [Mr. Conor].

16 posted on 12/31/2004 4:56:52 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: leadpenny

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=Pentagon%20ousts%20official%20who%20tied%20Russia%2C%20Iraq%20arms

Searching for threads with "Pentagon" in the title produces this.


17 posted on 12/31/2004 4:58:53 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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To: leadpenny
If you had any class you would have asked the mods to delete your thread when I first pointed it out to you.

I had no idea that I was supposed to do that.

18 posted on 12/31/2004 4:59:46 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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To: Mr. Conor

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=Pentagon

Searching for threads with "Pentagon" in the title produces this.


19 posted on 12/31/2004 5:01:40 AM PST by Mr. Conor
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Change it to 'order by post time'.


20 posted on 12/31/2004 5:03:00 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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