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New Documents Reveal Saddam Hid WMDs, Was Tied to Al Qaida
News Max ^ | Nov. 16, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; bushlied; iraq; iraqwar; iraqwarfacts; prewarintelligence; saddam; wmd; wmdfacts
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To: sam_paine; zarf

I have similar reservations about News Max, but they say that they are reporting on something the Weekly Standard will report on, in the Weekly Standard's Nov 21st issue.

I'm going to wait and see on this one. It's possible this might be the smoking gun we've all been waiting for.


21 posted on 11/16/2005 9:41:04 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Ben Mugged

On the other hand, I would love to see a "Reverse Pentagon Papers" scenario evolve. But how could the Administration have kept all this quiet?


22 posted on 11/16/2005 9:41:19 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sono

Doesn't matter. The liberals have had more than enough time to construct every possible Rovian conspiracy theory possible and not one of them involves wrongdoing on Saddams part.


23 posted on 11/16/2005 9:41:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Ben Mugged
This is HUGE

Oh it is a very very BAD day to be a Dim. Oh how I WISH I could see Bab's face, or Kennedy's... oh to be a fly on THOSE walls!!!! Howie is gonna SCREAM!!!!

Oh let the WAILING begin!!!!
24 posted on 11/16/2005 9:41:50 AM PST by Danae (Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
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To: Ben Mugged

I don't trust a website that has a blinking WINNER WINNER at the top. Bogus.


25 posted on 11/16/2005 9:42:14 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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To: Ben Mugged

Bush better call a Presser or it will never be covered.


26 posted on 11/16/2005 9:42:58 AM PST by demkicker
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To: Ben Mugged
The smoking gun?

Anything from the Iraqi Survey Group will be dismissed as neoncon propaganda. Apparently, the only people more loathsome and despicable than Saddam and his thugs were their victims.

27 posted on 11/16/2005 9:42:59 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Ben Mugged

This information doesn't have a snowball's chance of: 1. getting any play in the MSM and 2. being believed even if it was on the 6 o'clock news every night this week. The opposition has done its' job too well re: the Bush lied lie, and as much as I love Rush, he's not the equivalent of non-stop airplay of the whole ABC/CBS/NBS/MSNBC/CNN, etc. crowd.


28 posted on 11/16/2005 9:42:59 AM PST by ChocChipCookie (Democrats: soulless minions of orthodoxy.)
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To: Ben Mugged; girlangler; Howlin

Better see this.


29 posted on 11/16/2005 9:43:17 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
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To: onyx; ohioWfan; BigSkyFreeper; Dog; Howlin; nopardons; OXENinFLA; kcvl; prairiebreeze; ...

Ping A Ling


30 posted on 11/16/2005 9:43:19 AM PST by Mo1
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To: FourtySeven

I would agree. Newsmax has a long track record of blowing smoke. The Weekly Standard, however, is a different matter. This could get interesting.


31 posted on 11/16/2005 9:43:19 AM PST by eddiemunster
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To: FourtySeven
It's possible this might be the smoking gun we've all been waiting for.

Agreed...you beat my OTOH post in 22.

32 posted on 11/16/2005 9:43:42 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Preachin'

The president is fighting a war, perhaps his agenda is more about that and protecting the troops and not tipping their hand to the enemy about what they know, as opposed to swatting liberal fleas off his hindquarters.

Eventually it will all come out in the wash.


33 posted on 11/16/2005 9:43:46 AM PST by Valpal1 (Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
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To: Ben Mugged

A former Romanian Intelligence officer told the world of Saddam's plans to ditch his WMDs 3 years ago. Yet the MSM drools over Joe "lying sack of sh*t" "fancy hairdo" Wilson and ignores this guy as if he did not exist.


34 posted on 11/16/2005 9:44:23 AM PST by pissant
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yep, still waiting for Couric to bandy that about before the cameras.........


35 posted on 11/16/2005 9:45:30 AM PST by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps, Saving France's Bacon Since 1775.............)
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To: Valpal1

Keeps his eyes on the prize and isn't distracted by lies..........Just ask Ma Richards...........


36 posted on 11/16/2005 9:46:28 AM PST by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps, Saving France's Bacon Since 1775.............)
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To: Danae

Ever try decaf?


37 posted on 11/16/2005 9:46:44 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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To: Ben Mugged; Carl/NewsMax

But of course, the silence from the MSM on this is deafening!


38 posted on 11/16/2005 9:47:22 AM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Ben Mugged

This would explain Rummy's comment the other day when asked about WMD.

Guess those of us that have maintained their existence aren't so fanciful after all.


39 posted on 11/16/2005 9:47:23 AM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: Red Badger

I would feel better about this if NewsMax didn't include their obligatory "blockbuster" description to this information.


40 posted on 11/16/2005 9:47:52 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
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