Would you believe me if I quoted my unimpeachable sources. - Mansoor
Posted on 02/07/2006 11:54:00 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A congressional intelligence committee is studying audio recordings between deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other top former regime officials in an attempt to uncover more information about prewar Iraq’s suspected WMD capabilities, the New York Sun reported today (see GSN, Feb. 3).
Former federal prosecutor John Loftus provided a copy of the 12 hours of recordings to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Loftus said he initially acquired the recordings from a former U.S. military intelligence analyst and that they “will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important — and controversial — weapons of mass destruction questions.”
Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has met with former Iraqi air force Gen. Georges Sada, who has said that civilian aircraft were used to transfer what appeared to be weapons of mass destruction to Syria just before the U.S.-led invasion of his country (see GSN, Jan. 26).
Hoekstra is now interviewing Iraqis who allegedly took part in the WMD transfer. He has also asked National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to declassify 35,000 boxes of Iraqi documents, the Sun reported.
Hoekstra said he is frustrated with the U.S. intelligence community’s lack of interest in the issue.
“I talked to one person relatively high up in [National Intelligence Directorate], and I asked him about [Sada’s claims] and asked are they going to follow up, and he looked at me and said, ‘No we don’t think so,’” Hoekstra said.
“I am trying to find out if our postwar intelligence was as bad as our prewar intelligence,” he added (Eli Lake, New York Sun, Feb. 7).
We had a poster who claimed something big would come out on WMD last week. These claims could be bogus, but we ought to find out.
When it does come out that the WMD's were there can we replay the King funeral so the idiots can make retractions?
The MSM will never let this story or another other positive WMD story run for John Q. Public.
I'm sure the f*****k NY times will be all over this story.
I can see it now...
Tape-Saddam: "Abdul, I want you to truck those WMD over to Syria quick, the US is setting up surveillance of our facilities"
Democrats: Sure, we hear Saddam say this, but where is the physical evidence of WMD?? He might have been playing for the crowd knowing he was being surveilled.
"Ok Tariq, I got you for the falafel pocket with tahini sauce, Uday, your got the goat sub loaded, and Quesay, you just want pita with olives?"
ROFLMAO!!!
Loftus? oh my god, could this be the first time he has gotten something right?
Nixon looks down from heaven and types "ROFL"
True.
I'm skeptical of the Sada version of the WMDs-to-Syria story. I heard he hasn't been a general, or even in government, for many years, and that his source was two anonymous pilots who allegedly took part in the program. Sounds pretty flimsy to me. Does someone have better info on this?
Would you believe me if I quoted my unimpeachable sources. - Mansoor
I have a suspicion that we know exactly what happened to those weapons and maybe even where they're at now. It may be that we're using that knowledge as leverage on any number of parties as we speak.
bttt
That's because the intelligence community is packed full of Klintonites who are happy to slow-roll the issue until the end of time.
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