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Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector
UK Telegraph ^ | 3/12/2005 | Francis Harris

Posted on 03/11/2005 6:36:52 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE

Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 12/03/2005)

Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aziz; benonsevan; bribery; bribes; ekeus; hussein; iaea; inspections; inspector; inspectors; iraq; rolfekeus; saddam; saddamhussein; tareqaziz; tariqaziz; un; unoutofus; unscom; usoutofun; volckercommission; weaponsinspector; weaponsinspectors; wmd
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To: HangThemHigh
Could be.

I think this revelation is so darn odd coming at this time. If the guy was offered a bribe did he report it when it happened? To the UN I mean. If he did report it, how come no one's heard about it until now? Or maybe people did know about it.

It seems odd that this is just NOW going to the Voelker report. This incident should have hit the headlines WHEN IT HAPPENED! Yet I don't recall hearing anything about it.

61 posted on 03/12/2005 10:48:22 AM PST by Fishtalk
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To: mwyounce

62 posted on 03/12/2005 10:48:57 AM PST by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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To: marty60

The Supreme Goofball,Sodamn Insane, thought he had more than he did,there was WMD,don't get fooled


63 posted on 03/12/2005 10:49:04 AM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: SDR

And Saddam did this because he had NO weapons of mass destruction, of course. (sarcasm)


64 posted on 03/12/2005 11:08:07 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
And, at this point, I'd like to re-post for a little bumpity, an old thread I began a long time ago...

RandallFlagg: WMDs = Cheese ^


I think something nasty will hit the fan shortly.
And the mess will splatter in a valley in Syria.
65 posted on 03/12/2005 11:46:07 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: RandallFlagg

Great link!


66 posted on 03/12/2005 11:49:04 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Rebelbase
Ritter's offer was $2 mil + all the teen girls he wanted.

Don't forget the sweet correspondent stint at al-Jazeera.
67 posted on 03/12/2005 12:15:02 PM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: Light Your World

President George Bush right again? The left will be apoplectic!


68 posted on 03/12/2005 12:50:58 PM PST by Libertina (Hey temporary Governor Christine Gregoire - don't get too comfortable in that mansion!)
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To: Libertina

The left is chewing its own tail off at this one... lmao


69 posted on 03/12/2005 2:27:59 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: EGPWS

AlGore, the putz who was put in charge of improving airline security while VP, took cash instead, then blamed 911 on Bush. It`s no coincidence that AlGore went completely insane after 911. It`s called extreme guilt.


70 posted on 03/12/2005 2:29:06 PM PST by Imaverygooddriver (I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
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To: Imaverygooddriver
AlGore, the putz who was put in charge of improving airline security while VP, took cash instead, then blamed 911 on Bush.

The "bail out" to our country was the election of a POTUS with conviction for what's best for our country and not a conviction devoted to selfish endeavors.

71 posted on 03/12/2005 2:35:30 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: SDR

gee what a surprise, Saddam Maddas trying to bribe the UN weapons inspectors? who'd have thought /sarc


72 posted on 03/12/2005 2:45:53 PM PST by William of Orange (Liberalism: killing babies good, killing criminals bad...)
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To: DevSix

Really!!! What were in all those caravans of Russian trucks heading to Syria? Saddamn"s hareem.


73 posted on 03/12/2005 2:58:29 PM PST by marty60
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To: Blurblogger

On your tagline:

I agree and dislike them not keeping true to their RED heritage. I propose we make up bumper stickers in 08 that say, "This year WE get to be the blue states."


74 posted on 03/12/2005 3:36:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: RobFromGa

"My answer was, 'That is not the way we do business in Sweden.' "

At least not until the ROP takes over Sweden. Next year.


75 posted on 03/12/2005 3:38:05 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Dog

If I had your tag line, I would change one word: "are" to "have", as in "We have a battery ... ", because what happens to our poor faces when we find that target?


76 posted on 03/12/2005 3:40:15 PM PST by GretchenM (Have no fear. Tagline is non-toxic.)
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To: marty60
Really!!! What were in all those caravans of Russian trucks heading to Syria? Saddamn"s hareem.

Who knows? (Certainly you don't) - The fact is all sorts of things could have been in those "supposed" caravans leaving Iraq (a war was coming and it does make sense for people to try and get all sorts of valuable items out of the Country beforehand). - The idea that they had to be WMD's is simply not an accurate or honest assessment -

The fact is we have had the best of the best searching Iraq via complex hex operations searching for any WMD's (or any evidence of an active WMD program) - The fact remains we have found none -

While one could theorize about how WMD's (themselves) could have been moved out of Country (to Syria for example) - What could not have been completely removed would be the "residuals" of any active WMD program.

Those residuals being from the human element, chemical element, computer element, prototype element, paperwork element, storage element, disposal element, etc, etc, etc - We have not found any residuals to an "active" WMD program. That is the bottom line.

But don't allow the MSM to fool you into thinking WMD's were the sole reason we went into Iraq - They certainly were not!! - There was a list of over 17 reasons presented by the WH for reasons Saddam needed to be removed. WMD's were only one of those reasons.

And the fact is now we know (to a large extent) about Saddam's current WMD program (there or not) and the World is safer because of it. The World is safer because Saddam is not in power. The World is safer because freedom and self-worth are spreading throught-out Iraq (and Afghanistan).

Lastly, GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld are all serious men who do not play word games. All have said Saddam did not have the WMD's we expected he would have (They mean what they say).

77 posted on 03/12/2005 3:49:18 PM PST by SevenMinusOne
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To: SDR
Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction

How can that be? We've been told by the mainstream media and the Eurotwits that Sadaam never had WMD! Why would he feel the need to bribe someone into not revealing them, if he never had them?

78 posted on 03/12/2005 4:03:21 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: marty60

Bingo!


79 posted on 03/12/2005 4:20:12 PM PST by scoastie
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To: DevSix
The MSM never fools me because I don't pay any attention to what they have to say. We know Saddamn had WMD's, he used them. granted what was moved was probably old and unstable (hopefully the ones moving them found this out). but I am not ready to become assured that the terrorists don't have their bloody hands on this stuff. I just think they may be afraid to use it while Bush is in power.

these people are evil and dangerous and that is the one thing that makes anything possible.

80 posted on 03/12/2005 4:33:37 PM PST by marty60
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