[SBD1]

I think this report says it all!!

The CIA should be replaced by the GIS!!

SBD

[Brad from Tennessee]

Or the Girl Scouts of America. At least they have adult supervision.

[Mr. Mojo]

....documentation of that small portion of the WMD program which was administered directly in Iraq was moved, along with other sensitive material and resources, to the Hshishi Compound at al-Qamishli (Kamishli) in Syria, just near the Iraqi border, in August-September 2002.

Imagine that such a thing should happen during the time we were messing around attempting to get UN approval.

[arthurus]

I still think that is what Qadafi gave up when he turned over his nuke program. He had the hot potato in his lap and didn't want it any more.

[popdonnelly]

The truth about this work in WMDs needs to be made public. I would like to know when some public news source is going to look into this.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is this a respectable source (Defense and Foreign Affairs Daily)? I never heard of it.

[marron]

We've seen this before, but there is some additional detail here. The jist is that Libya's nuclear weapons program was Saddam's weapons program. It was also Egypt's. It doesn't say so here, but I have seen references elsewhere suggesting that the Saudis had an interest as well.

We've seen references elsewhere that Libya's uranium was shipped under the table from Niger (among other places in Africa) which adds an additional level of interest to the Saddam/France/Niger story.

[dynoman]

More information here on Posts 80-85

[MilleniumBug]

 ...we [A.Q.Khan's party] reached Timbuktu on 24 February 1999. After spending a couple of days, we were on our way back and our first stop was Niamey, capital of Niger.
http://www.kashmirherald.com/featuredarticle/khanandbinladen.html

The information puts Khan in Niger in that period, detailing how his scientific court, installed in the hall of the Grand Hotel du Niger, gave appointments to local emissaries and clients from every imaginable country on a daily basis. Appointments where information, money and encrypted documents exchanged hands.
http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=3782

As I posted before, there is no doubt that Wilson went in 1999 (under the guise of investigating a 1998 deal), to broker what I believe were ongoing sales of Uranium from Niger to other rogue nations including Iraq.[and Libya]
http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2005/11/plame-game-lets-play-hide-cake.html

As a private citizen, Wilson reports that he made three trips to Niger, a landlocked hellhole in the Sahara, culminating the fateful trip of February 2002. The only reason he cites for his first trip in 1998 was to "participate in a cultural festival," at best a half-truth. [Trips to Niger in 1998, 1999, 2002]
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47487


Pattycake, pattycake, Wilson's the Man.
Africa's as big as any one Khan.
You dig it, you shop it,
You pack it, you ship it.
Bake me a Yellow Boy as fast as you can.
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/12/niamey_niger_19.html

[operation clinton cleanup]

Mauritania? First I have heard that name thrown into the mix.

Interesting stuff here:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mr.html

Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA siezed power in a coup in 1984. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open. A bloodless coup in August 2005 deposed President TAYA and ushered in a military council headed by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, which declared it would remain in power for up to two years while it created conditions for genuine democratic institutions. For now, however, Mauritania remains, a one-party state. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black population and the Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.

[Steve_Seattle]

This is all very interesting, and it all seems credible to a non-expert like me, but what exactly is the GIS and how do they get their information? And if any of this is true, why aren't we hearing about it anywhere else? Because the MSM is stuck on stupid?

[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"