Posted on 02/23/2006 3:22:14 PM PST by rjp2005
"William Tierney, the former United Nations weapons inspector who unveiled the so-called "Saddam Tapes" at a conference in Arlington, Virginia, Saturday, told National Review Online that God directed him to weapons sites in Iraq and that his belief in the importance of one particular site was strengthened when a friend told him that she had a vision of the site in a dream."
God, devil or sun above, whatever works!
I want some more evidence to shove in the face of the left.
don't you know the left just hates hearing God might have helped though? he is only supposed to help the dingy ones...like Pat and Jesse...
Tierney is also the only Western expert on the "Tikriti dialect." So he claims.
The tapes were interesting enough without his "unique" spins.
The real scandal about the WMDs
By Jack Kelly
It was hardly the "smoking cannon" its promoters promised, but it is a good deal more than the cap pistol it's being treated as.
I went to Washington Saturday for the "unveiling" of 12 hours of recently discovered tapes of Saddam Hussein and his senior aides discussing Saddam's WMD programs.
I have "unveiling" in quotes because the translator of the tapes, Bill Tierney, gave an advance copy to ABC, which broadcast a report on them Feb. 15th, thus stepping on his own story.
Turnout among journalists for the formal unveiling was low, partly because ABC had already broken the story, partly because many journalists have little interest in information that contradicts the assumption Saddam had no WMD.
Mr. Tierney, who served with both UN weapons inspectors in Iraq and at U.S. Central Command, gave a slide show on what he said were the highlights on the tapes, which were made in Saddam's office between 1992 and 2002. The highlights were:
On a 1992 tape, Saddam made it clear he still considered himself at war with the United States. "The Mother of All Battles is continuing," he said.
Saddam's WMD programs were revived soon after the first Gulf War, and lots of resources were devoted to them. A 1992 tape discusses the diversion of electric power from a massive plant in Basra for a process for enriching uranium like that the U.S. used to create the first atomic bomb. In a later tape, a scientist explains to Saddam how uranium is being enriched through the process of plasma separation.
Saddam and his aides were not merely confident they could hide their WMD programs from UN inspectors, they were scornful of UNSCOM. "All they will confirm is our cover story," Saddam said on one of the tapes.
On one of the later tapes, foreign minister Tariq Aziz seems to indicate Iraq would soon acquire nuclear weapons. The topic is a proxy terror attack on the United States. Aziz argued biological weapons would be best, because they would be the hardest to link to Iraq. If there were "destruction," he said, it would be harder for Iraq to plausibly deny involvement.
One of Saddam's aides hints at what happened to the WMD. "Where was the nuclear material transported to?" he asks rhetorically. Then, answering his own question, he says: "A number of them were transported out of Iraq."
On another tape, there is what Mr. Tierney said is a discussion of using proxies to attack the U.S. Here the goof in providing ABC with an advance copy of the tapes is most damaging. The translator ABC hired translated the relevant passages as Saddam telling his aides he warned the U.S. groups like al Qaida were planning to attack us.
It is reasonable to assert Saddam had nothing to do with al Qaida (though evidence to the contrary is mounting). But it is preposterous to assume someone who considers himself at war with the United States would warn us of a forthcoming attack.
But because the ABC version was out first, and because it supports what most in the media would like to believe, it will be the dominant interpretation.
Mr. Tierney's quirks make it easier for those who wish to do so to dismiss his translation. He is a born again Christian who told National Review's Byron York that G-d had directed him to join the Army. Mr. Tierney resigned from the Army after he was charged with improper behavior because he prayed with an Iraqi Christian defector prior to interrogating him.
But it is what is on the tapes, and not Mr. Tierney's religious beliefs, on which we should focus. They call into question the tentative conclusion of Iraq Survey Group chief Charles Duelfer that Iraq had ended its nuclear program by 1995.
The tapes support the account of Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, who'd been in charge of the centrifuge program, that parts and blueprints were hidden from UNSCOM but not destroyed.
Air Force investigator David Gaubatz said he found four sealed bunkers in southern Iraq where he was told WMD was stored. He reported this to Mr. Duelfer's group, but they didn't check it out.
Doubtless there are more clues about Saddam's WMD on the more than two million documents and tapes captured after all the fall of Baghdad. It is scandalous that fewer than four percent of them have been translated.
http://jewishworldreview.com/0206/jkelly022106.php3
Fine. So what was there?
It makes him sound like a weirdo or kook and casts doubt on him and the case he wants to make.
"The tapes were interesting enough without his "unique" spins."
Exactly. The tapes are hard evidence of conversations of Saddam, that he discussed these things. I dont care who, how or why they become public. As long as they do, and I want to see more. And If I were the left and had bet the farm on Saddam being "contained" I would be really really nervous about that pile of data yet to be gone through.
Who is the legal owner of the tapes?
Anyone happen to know if Tierney supports/confirms the Georges Sada book?
I have no definitive answer because I only saw parts of the Intelligence Summit on C-SPAN & don't know if Tierney mentioned Sada. I do know that on the intelligencesummit.org website there are video links to some of Sada's January TV appearances on FoxNews & MSNBC.
Thanks....
I am not so sure. There are so many self-described "psychics", tarot readers, palm readers, etc., and they all make the same claim to "absolutely knowing the truth". "God told me so" or "Rama channeled me" are equal, unless backed up with useful evidence.
A faith in psychics is not inspiring at all.
bump
Healthy skepticism is good, but this person did not identify himself with the occult (tarot cards, psychics, etc.). He merely said he was a Christian and often prayed for God's help in doing his work.
Yes, lets see what the results will be. I just think its good to hear examples of people working in government who credit God's help in fulfilling their duties.
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