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Could Scores of Sealed Documents Reveal Saddam Hussein's Terror Ties?
FoxNews ^ | 3/13/06 | Paul Gigot/Stephen Hayes

Posted on 03/13/2006 6:50:21 PM PST by pissant

PAUL GIGOT, HOST: Nearly three years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, some two million documents and tape recordings seized during Operation Iraqi Freedom remain largely un-translated, unanalyzed, and unavailable to the American public. These items appear to contain information relevant to the ongoing debate over the former dictator's terror ties, including some that describe in detail how Saddam trained thousands of Islamic radicals in the waning years of his regime.

Stephen Hayes broke this story for "The Weekly Standard." He joins me now from Washington.

Welcome, Steve.

STEPHEN HAYES, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Hi, Paul.

GIGOT: Why should we care about these documents? And what do you expect to learn if they are uncovered?

HAYES: Well, I would say we should care about them both for historical reasons, and as you point out, for reasons that might help us with the very people we're fighting in Iraq today. There are lists, to give you one example, of Iraqi intelligence operatives who operated during Saddam Hussein's regime both inside and outside of Iraq. Those are likely the same people that U.S. forces are fighting on the ground in Iraq today. And if we knew, for instance, who these people trained with back in Iraq in 2002, we might have a better idea how they've set up theirselves in Iraq in 2006. So that's one of the main reasons.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: gigot; iraq; iraqdocs; losers; saddam; stephenhayes
It's sad to think a major party in this country WISHES that Bush lied, and wishes that we fail, and prays that the world "hates us".
1 posted on 03/13/2006 6:50:24 PM PST by pissant
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To: Baynative
"If they did, the lead story in the "Drive by Media" would be SEALED DOCUMENTS APPEAR FAKE! or -

BUSH DOCUMENTS ALTERED, SOME CLAIM!"

Dan Rather would come out of retirement/hiding to break that news.

3 posted on 03/13/2006 6:56:45 PM PST by Thumper1960 (The enemy within: Demoncrats and DSA.ORG Sedition is a Liberal "family value".)
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To: Baynative

Those will be the headlines in the days to come, I can assure you.


4 posted on 03/13/2006 6:57:12 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

what headlines?? if these documents debunk the "Bush lied" mantra of the left (and the MSM), then the MSM will ignore them since it doesn't fit the agenda.


5 posted on 03/13/2006 7:07:30 PM PST by fhlh (Polls are for Strippers.)
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To: fhlh

I was referring to the likely headlines that Baynative posited.


6 posted on 03/13/2006 7:09:13 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

The crickets are warming up in the bullpen of Old Media


7 posted on 03/13/2006 7:09:33 PM PST by digger48
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To: digger48

A long, agonizing death has started. Man the shovels.


8 posted on 03/13/2006 7:10:50 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Two million documents? We can't expect the MSM to actually go through two million documents. What do you think they are, reporters?


9 posted on 03/13/2006 8:06:33 PM PST by 6SJ7
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To: lepton

bookmark bump


10 posted on 03/13/2006 8:10:18 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: 6SJ7
Two million documents? We can't expect the MSM to actually go through two million documents. What do you think they are, reporters?

Wasn't there some notion a while back of scanning them and putting them online. (Now theory would hold that an infinite number of pajama monkeys....)

11 posted on 03/13/2006 8:20:32 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: pissant
"It's sad....."

Using their blind hate for President Bush, the media and the Democrats are killing our men and women who are in dangerous parts of the world.

Yes, it is very sad!!!!

12 posted on 03/13/2006 9:03:37 PM PST by malia
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To: Baynative
BUSH DOCUMENTS ALTERED, SOME CLAIM!

Unfortunately, I would not be surprised if the traitors in the unelected shadow government deliberately through some fake documents in there to throw a wrench in things.

13 posted on 03/13/2006 9:26:25 PM PST by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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