New Documents Reveal Saddam Hid WMDs, Was Tied to Al Qaida

News Max ^ | Nov. 16, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

[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.

[kabar]

It's not NewsMax, it is the Weekly Satandard and Steven Hayes using DOD-seized documents. I would also note that Chalabi mentioned the very same thing on the Charlie Rose show last night. He said that the Pentagon had millions of pages of documents seized from Iraqi intelligence. They were being translated and pieced together right now. It would be a long, slow process, but the truth would come out.

[BlueStateDepression]

Could that truth be something along these lines?

Iran, Iraq, and DPRK work together, in cahoots with other terrorist states, to develop a nuclear and or Bio/chem capability along with the means to deliver them that had no lone state sponsor?

Saddam uses technology from DPRK and Pakistan thru AQ KAHN to develop a nuclear bomb in Libya that would be shipped to Syria where it would be combined with shabob missiles built in Iran then deployed to Lebanon for use against Israel and the rest of the westernized nations of the world. Sure sounds like an axis of evil to me.

I think it is entirely possible that what Gadafi turned over very well could have been Saddams Project to begin with or it was sent there when Saddam knew the jig was up.

[eyespysomething]

from the Weekly Standard article mentioned:
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/345qrbbj.asp?pg=1



SOME OF THE DOCUMENT TITLES I requested are suggestive, others less so. It's possible that the "Document from Uday Hussein regarding Taliban activity" was critical of one or another Taliban policies. But it's equally possible, given Uday's known role as a go-between for the Iraqi regime and al Qaeda, that something more nefarious was afoot.

What was discussed at the "Secret Meeting with Taliban Group Member and Iraqi Government" in November 2000? It could be something innocuous. Maybe not. But it would be nice to know more.

Was there really a contract for satellite pictures among Russia, France, and Iraq in December 2002? That would have been a mere three months before the war, at a time when France was telling the U.S. government it supported "serious consequences" for Iraqi noncompliance with U.N. inspections.

One of the documents, "Iraqi Efforts to Cooperate with Saudi Opposition Groups and Individuals," had been provided to the New York Times last summer. Thom Shanker, one of the Times's best reporters, wrote a story based on the document, which was an internal Iraqi Intelligence memo. The Iraqi document revealed that a Sudanese government official met with Uday Hussein and the director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in 1994 and reported that bin Laden was willing to meet in Sudan. Bin Laden, according to the Iraqi document, was then "approached by our side" after "presidential approval" for the liaison was given. The former head of Iraqi Intelligence Directorate 4 met with bin Laden on February 19, 1995. The document further states that bin Laden "had some reservations about being labeled an Iraqi operative"--a comment that suggests the possibility had been discussed. (According to another Iraqi Intelligence document, authenticated by the DIA and first reported on 60 Minutes, the regime considered bin Laden an "Iraqi Intelligence asset" as early as 1992, though it's unclear that bin Laden shared this view.)

[churchillbuff]

This'll be buried faster by the MSM than a Cat in a Cow Pasture!........."""

Good point! Why don't Newsmax stories get more respect?

[mewzilla]

Someone really needs to ask the Dems, especially Hillie, if they'd be willing to stake their jobs on guaranteeing that no WMD made it out of Iraq before the war.

[GOP_1900AD]

Tell W and all his staff that Dale Carnegie is great for doing real estate deals and handling cranky customers, but sucks for dealing with backstabbers.

GOP_1900AD Training: BEGIN IN A BRUTAL AND SURPRISING WAY!!!!

[dc-zoo]

This can't be! Cindy Al Sheehani says there were no "weapons of mass distruction" and Bush lied.

[WesternPacific]

I still think the plans to hide this stuff were formalized and put in place as soon as the Iraq and Syrian governments got word from their U.S. contact and point man, the distinguished Senator J. Rockefeller.

[Danae]

""When David Kay ran the Iraq Survey Group searching for weapons of mass destruction, he instructed his team to ignore anything not directly related to the regime's WMD efforts," he reports. "As a consequence, documents describing the regime's training and financing of terrorists were labeled 'No Intelligence Value' and often discarded, according to two sources.""

Uhhh, doesn't this mean, if true, that David Kay is responsible for destroying documents that could PROVE Saddam was working with Terrorists, the President's claim all along??? Next question, did he do it of a purpose, and at who's bidding?? Was there a quid Pro Quo somewhere?

[eyespysomething]

Wasn't there supposed to be a final assembly plant in a mountain (was it in Libya?)

[Stellar Dendrite]

it's not huge, its HUGH :)

[Mo1]

BTTT

[billhilly]

"Good point! Why don't Newsmax stories get more respect?"

Their track record.

[ThanhPhero]

Bush's administration seems inclined to minimize this sort of thing, cover it up even. When has he mentioned the 1.7 tons of uranium?

[pissant]

They have the MSM as their ally in the coverup, so unless Assad comes clean or we find them at the bottom of the Arabian sea, you can count on the NY Times and the rest of the traitorous media to ignore it completely.

[moose2004]

I've always believed that the WMD and their materials were whisked out of Iraq before the liberation by the Syrians with Russian and possibly French help.

[jbwbubba]

Yes CNS did have story last year about found documents which showed Iraq had WMD

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\\SpecialReports\\archive\\200410\\SPE20041004a.html

Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
By Scott Wheeler
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 04, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.

[girlangler]

Bingo. That's my opinion.

Let the Dimocrats keep talking. Their words will make some great ads in the upcoming election.

[finnman69]

http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2005-11-15_334178292678704/movie_stars/murphy/ahh_ha.wav

[mewzilla]

so unless Assad comes clean or we find them at the bottom of the Arabian sea...

Or, Heaven forbid, someone uses one. God help the Dems and RINOs if that happens.