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Freepers Mentioned................
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If you read nothing else today, make sure to go to this site.
There will be a press conference about the documents today at 1:30pm EST:
TODAY, Thursday, March 16, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, will comment on the release of Iraqi documents, including photos and tapes, that today have been made publicly accessible to the world. Senator Santorum and Congressman Hoekstra have worked aggressively to get the trove of documents seized from the Saddam Hussein and Taliban regimes released so the world can see for itself what those regimes stood for. Both congressional leaders believe that these documents are not only of historical significance but can help remind the world that we are fighting a global war on terror. Senator Santorum and Congressman Hoekstra both offered legislation requiring the release of the captured documents and photos. These documents come from a collection of some 2 million exploitable items captured in post-war Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States has had these documents for four years. They have not been publicly available during this time.
How about an Army of Davids to translate and process the info?
March 16, 2006
In Saddam's Archives
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As Scott noted below, the government has finally begun making available a few of the many thousands of documents captured from Iraqi intelligence during and after the 2003 war. Only a handful are now available on the Foreign Military Studies Office web site, but already there are revelations that strike me as interesting. One document, CMPC-2003-006430, is accompanied by a bland synopsis: "This file contains document relevant to the Mukhabarat or Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS), it explains the structure of the IIS." The document's contents are more interesting than the synopsis sounds [Note update below. The English portion of the document is a description of the Mukhabarat by the Federation of American Scientists. The Arabic portion apparently hasn't been translated. Hopefully, the Arabic cover sheet and notes will reveal whether the Mukhabarat confirmed the FAS description. Arabic speakers--please send us a translation!]:
Directorate 4. Secret Service. The Secret Service Directorate is located inside the headquarters complex of the Mukhabarat. Its activities take place both in Iraq and abroad, with agents of D4 infiltrated into Iraqi Government departments, the Baath Party, associations, unions and organizations, Iraqi embassies and opposition. ... The Directorate includes a number of offices specializing in the collection against a specific country or region, including offices for Southern Asia, Turkey, Iran, America (North and South), Europe, Arab states, Africa and the former Soviet Union. D4 works in co-ordination with D3, D5, D9, D12, D14, D18.Directorate 8. Technical Affairs. Located in the headquarters complex of the Mukhabarat, the Eight Directorate is responsible for development of materials needed for covert offensive operations. It contains advanced laboratories for testing and production of weapons, poisons, and explosives, as well as facilities for finger printing all Mukhabarat members.
Directorate 9. Secret Operations. The Ninth Directorate is one of the most important directorates in the Mukhabarat. Most of its work is outside Iraq in coordination with other Directorates, focusing on operations of sabotage and assassination.
Office 16. This Office conducts training of agents for clandestine operations abroad. Agents attend a special school near Baghdad which provides language courses and orientation concerning the country to which they will be assigned. The Office also provides training for the operation itself. Special six-week courses in the use of terror techniques are provided at a camp in Radwaniyah.
So Iraqi intelligence conducted "covert offensive operations" involving "poisons" as well as explosives, carried out "sabotage and assassination" outside of Iraq, and trained agents in "the use of terror techniques" abroad. Not bad for a single eight-page document.
ISGQ-2003-M0004244-1 (joined in progress)
Male 13: So why are there countries that need oil, and other countries that export oil but also deal in the oil market, like Russia, need oil like France, they want the embargo lifted? Let’s ask this question.
First of all, they feel that America is controlling the oil by controlling the gulf area. So it is in their interest and they know that America has become the only super power left that controls everything. They know, and just like me and the comrades here, when the French meet together they talk about how the Americans control everything, exactly like we do. The only difference is that they don’t say it in public because they don’t want to get into a public confrontation.
They want guaranteed shares for the future. Even Russia wants a guaranteed share that it can sell on the market. It wants to stay an effective player in the market. They want Iraq to be back now and in the future. And they want Iraq to increase it’sproduction like you mentioned earlier. Meaning for Iraq to export more than it does at the present time. All this is in their best interest.
But the thing that we do need to emphasize is like you said, that Iraq is a balancing factor in the oil market when it comes back. That’s why I talked about the two countries in OPEC. Not because they’re Islamic countries trying to do good for Muslims. It’s because they have interests. The two countries are Indonesia and Niger. They support lifting the embargo. I’m sure Dr Safa knows this, but there is an agreement in OPEC that the Iraqi return to the oil market combined with less oil production from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, is a balancing factor.
Right now, any news out of Baghdad, or any news from New York, affects the oil prices. The Iraqi return to the oil market combined with an oil agreement to specify production levels and agree on prices, and if there’s a plan to increase production it should do so gradually not jump suddenly, all of this is in the interest of exporters for sure, and that’s why they support us. And it is also in the best interest of consumers that import the oil who do not have imperialist goals like America. They want guarantees and stability. They don’t want one party to play around. If a crisis hits the American dollar, which is possible, for example, America dumped 20 to 30 billion dollars in Mexico because the Mexican Peso collapsed. America is scared of Mexico. If Mexico’s economy collapses…
Male 2: [Inaudible]
Male 13: If the last treaty between America, Mexico and Canada; NAFTA, collapses, if Mexico collapses and a starvation happens, Mexicans will jump the fence and cross into the United States. It was a big problem for them when the Haitians and Cubans came to them. Mexico is 100 million. And they’re close; they don’t need boats or anything. The only option for Americans would be to open fire and kill them, but they can’t do that…
Male 9: Sir, California is already Mexican