Iraqi WMD Debate and Intelligence: the Links to Libya

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily ^ | January 30, 2004 | Gregory R. Copley

[Steve_Seattle]

"This meant that Iraqi weapons programs — or hints about them — within Iraq had to be sufficiently enigmatic as to attract attention; the game had to be drawn out, and no suspicion should be allowed to fall on external programs."

This is one of the more interesting points. I remember when the failure to find WMDs was first becoming an issue, some experts said that if Saddam didn't have WMD's, he sure tried to make it seem like he did. And he was definitely playing a cat-and-mouse game with world opinion, such as letting his own people die so as to turn world opinion against the sanctions. I am sure that it was Bush's intuition that Saddam was doing just that - stalling and playing rope-a-dope until the sanctions were dropped and he could resume everything full speed ahead, stuff that was being done on the sly in Libya.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1068: "LIBYAN LEADER QADDAFI: WE CAN CUT OUR DEFENSE BUDGET BY USING SUICIDE OPERATIONS, CAR BOMBS; I AGREE WITH AMERICA ON EVERYTHING BUT IRAQ AND PALESTINE; THE WORD 'DEMOCRACY' IS ARABIC" (January 11, 2006)

MEMRITV.org - video clip no. 990: "Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Qaddafi: We Can Cut Our Defense Budget and Use Suicide Operations and Car Bombs; I Agree with America on Everything (Except for Iraq and Palestine); The Word Democracy Comes from the Arabic for 'Common People in Seats'" (TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "Following are excerpts from an address given by Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Qaddafi, which was broadcast on Libyan TV on January 5, 2006, and from an interview broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV on January 1, 2006." (January 6, 2006)

Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) Herzliya, Israel http://www.e-prism.org The Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) Occasional Papers Volume 3 (2005), Number 2 (June 2005) Director and Editor (Reuven Paz): "'THE LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP' (LIFG)" by Moshe Terdman (June 2005) (pff)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "LIBYA CONFIRMS BUYING 'A-BOMB' PLAN FROM PAKISTAN" (January 5, 2004)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 587: "AL-QADDAFI: 'LIBYA SHOULD QUIT THE ARAB LEAGUE... WOMEN MUST BE TRAINED TO BOOBY-TRAP CARS, HOUSES, LUGGAGE, AND CHILDREN'S TOYS'" (October 10, 2003)

QADHAFI.org: "MUAMMAR AL QADHAFI Leader of The Great Al Fateh Revolution"