Posted on 11/16/2005 9:32:41 AM PST by Ben Mugged
Recently discovered Iraqi documents now being translated by U.S. intelligence analysts indicate that Saddam Hussein's government made extensive plans to hide Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 - and had deep ties to al Qaida before the 9/11 attacks.
The explosive evidence was discovered among "millions of pages of documents" unearthed by the Iraq Survey Group weapons search team, reports the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes.
In the magazine's Nov. 21 issue, Hayes reveals that the document cache now being examined contains "a thick stew of reports and findings from a variety of [Iraqi] intelligence agencies and military units."
Though the Pentagon has so far declined to make the bombshell papers public, Hayes managed to obtain a list of titles on the reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
From 2003:
Russia Hid Saddam's WMDs
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington Times | October 2, 2003
On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the U.S.-led "aggression" against Iraq as "unwarranted" and "unjustifiable." Three days later, Pravda said that an anonymous Russian "military expert" was predicting that the United States would fabricate finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov immediately started plying the idea abroad, and it has taken hold around the world ever since.
As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place. The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed "Sarindar, meaning "emergency exit." I implemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. We wanted to make sure they would never be traced back to us, and we also wanted to frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.
All chemical weapons were to be immediately burned or buried deep at sea. Technological documentation, however, would be preserved in microfiche buried in waterproof containers for future reconstruction. Chemical weapons, especially those produced in Third World countries, which lack sophisticated production facilities, often do not retain lethal properties after a few months on the shelf and are routinely dumped anyway. And all chemical weapons plants had a civilian cover making detection difficult, regardless of the circumstances.
The plan included an elaborate propaganda routine. Anyone accusing Moammar Gadhafi of possessing chemical weapons would be ridiculed. Lies, all lies! Come to Libya and see! Our Western left-wing organizations, like the World Peace Council, existed for sole purpose of spreading the propaganda we gave them. These very same groups bray the exact same themes to this day. We always relied on their expertise at organizing large street demonstrations in Western Europe over America's "war-mongering" whenever we wanted to distract world attention from the crimes of the vicious regimes we sponsored.
Iraq, in my view, had its own "Sarindar" plan in effect direct from Moscow. It certainly had one in the past. Nicolae Ceausescu told me so, and he heard it from Leonid Brezhnev. KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Gen. Yevgeny Primakov, told me so, too. In the late 1970s, Gen. Primakov ran Saddam's weapons programs. After that, as you may recall, he was promoted to head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service in 1990, to Russia's minister of foreign affairs in 1996, and in 1998, to prime minister. What you may not know is that Primakov hates Israel and has always championed Arab radicalism. He was a personal friend of Saddam's and has repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991, quietly helping Saddam play his game of hide-and-seek.
The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them "disappear." Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia's topnotch "retired"generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam's Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. "I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee," was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were there orchestrating Iraq's "Sarindar" plan.
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Thanks for this ping! Bookmarking and maybe printing to hand out to creepy liberals!
We need to see some chronology on Saddam's plans and movement of WMDs in the light of Rockefeller's recent admission that he revealed US plans to Assad in 2002, months before the actual war.
If the plans were made or substantially accellerated because of Rockefeller, then the Senate and the government must act to bring Rockefeller to the bar of justice.
The WH and Pentagon should step up to the plate to either stop this rumour or confirm it!
So when is the Administration going to go public with this? The day before Hillary is sworn in?
Nahh, I think we will see some rhetoric for the next few months that escalates as the real deal documents continue to show the true story. W will get heavier and harsher with the rhetoric with an occasional tidbit for us to consume.
THEN starting in, what I think will be about July, things will be coming out left and right top to bottom that expose all the crap Dems have been spewing since the Tora Bora operation concluded.
Many thanks for the ping!
Yes, but the MSM will never allow it to see the light of day.
If this isn't buried asap, it'll be like a game of musical chairs with the Libs screaming, running to switch change 'positions'. Kerry can call it 'nuancing', but they'll run like rats.
I'm like you. What the hell are they waiting for?
It was Rove with his document planting machine.
Take that dimoRATS and RINOs
Put them out there for all to see. Let the dems and the MSM choke on them. Thank God for our military , the Commander in chief, the Secretary of Defense, V.P.Cheney, and all of the grownups running the country after the hippies left town.
General Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is currently finishing a new book, Red Roots: The Origins of Today's Anti-Americanism.
Thanks for posting this!
Bump.
what happened to that I wonder?
Easy, the CIA leaks only the things that will hurt the Administration.
LOL.
As soon as the administration is done making all White House staffers take repeated "ethics classes", they will get around to this.
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