The Iraq Documents

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AN ARMY OF TRANSLATORS NEEDED

By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 16, 2006 12:19 PM

***scroll for updates...translations coming in***

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:

How about an Army of Davids to translate and process the info?

Debate at RedState.

Flashback: AJStrata - Unleash the blogosphere

Flashback: Pajamas Media documentarian Andrew Marcus interviews Rep. Hoekstra Feb. 16 about the docs: "They ought to be put on the Internet...unleash the power of the 'net on these 55,000 boxes of documents to see exactly what went on...Let the blogosphere go!"

And an Army of Freepers has started to dig through the docs. Jveritas provides a translation of a document linking Iraq and Osama bin Laden CMPC-2003-001488 (hat tip: Jawa Report):

John Hinderaker starts digging into the new document trove here.

Background:

Steve Hayes, who got the ball rolling here.

Michael Barone, Why Do Democrats Fear the Al-Qaida/Saddam Relationship?

Power Line, here, here, and here.

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Saddam's terror training camps

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Newly released document links Saddam to al-Qaida (Free Republic mention/link)

 

 

ABCNews: New Documents from Saddam Hussein's Archives Discuss Bin Laden, WMDs

 

Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden See Translation

 

 

First Declassified Iraq Documents Released

-more--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597217/posts

 

Post-Haste [Link to Pentagon Site Where pre-war Iraq and Afghanistan Documents are]

 

Al ADL Letter (translation of captured Al Qaeda Communication)

 

Bush wants to release the Saddam files but his intelligence chief stalls

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594534/posts

 

Bush Admin. releases 48K boxes of Saddam Documents (FOX NEWS ALERT!)

 

When the Dungeon Doors Swing Open...

... Harvard has five million pages of captured Iraq documents on the net here. Mass murder by Saddam is more well documented ...

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889383/posts - 147k - Cached

 

Saddam General Explains Saddam’s ‘Secrets’ — WMDs, Bombing Israel, and Genocide (AUDIO)

 

New Saddam Documents Detail Terror Training

 

CNS New Iraq documents on Web

-more--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241500/posts

 

UN purges Iraq documents with $15-bn in question

 

Former Finnish PM on trial over leaked pre-war (Iraq) documents

 

Joseph Wilson, Niger, Uranium and Bush's Famous Sixteen Words: Evolution of a Confused Story--Read this and notice that it all starts (at least the controversy)after Wilson is contacted by Chris LeHane, the infamous Democrat dirty trickster and head of the Kerry campaign at that time.

 “Iraq Inspectors, 'Yellow Cake' and Other Quarries”
Washington Post, by Waler Pincus

Mission to Niger (Novak/Wilson July 14, 2003)

 

Whatever Happened To Iraqgate

 

Whatever Happened to Iraqgate? Was it swept under the rug because of the CIA - - or Hillary? [Free Republic]

 

Breaking All the Rules

 

The impact of Bush linking 9/11 and Iraq (is Bush lying about an Iraq/911 connection?)

 

Oil for Food, Money for Kofi

 

The Butcher with the Terror Ties - The evidence mounts. (Newsweek reports on Atta in Prague, 2001)

 

Jihad, Terror, and anti-Semitism across the world

 

 

--and for some reason, a search for "Iraq Documents" revealed this odd info:

The Clinton-Gore Incinerator [a compendium] [Free Republic] -- Beginning in 1990, Hillary Clinton received $31,000 a year to serve on the board of the Lafarge Corporation, a French company that is the second-largest producer of cement in the United States.--the key stuff in this particular one re: Mafia, is the Von Roll etc. ties with Hillary, the Swiss Banks, BCCI, and Mafia associations. Most of this is back into money laundering, probably Vince Foster and NSA/CIA involvement.

[backhoe]

 

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Iraq Documents Show Saddam Terror Connections

The trove of documents discovered in Iraq has been released to the public, and we’re now starting to see the results; Michelle Malkin has some early translations that are already making clear Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorists—including Osama bin Laden.link: 80 comments

Newly released document links Saddam to al-Qaida
[Indicates regime was cooperating with bin Laden group to strike U.S.]

Among the pre-war documents posted online yesterday by the Pentagon is a letter from a member of Saddam's intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9-11 attacks.

This shouldn't surprise anyone here;

AIM Report: Media Reports Connect Saddam to 9/11 Plot

[OKSooner]

Sounds like a job for Backhoe and/or Alamo Girl.

[backhoe]

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/

Pajamas Media Doesn't Just Report History, It Helps To Make It

Talk about Gonzo Journalism:


Back in mid-February Pajamas Media went to Washington to cover the Intelligence Summit and did video interviews with Congressman Hoekstra (chair of the House Intell Committee), former DCI Woolsey and Richard Perle, among others. In all those interviews we discussed our idea - new to all of them - that the myriad untranslated Saddam tapes and documents be released to the blogosphere for translation.  Today, it was announced that at the instigation of Hoekstra these documents have been released by the Pentagon for ... and this is how it was worded on the Brit Hume Show on Fox News ... for translation by the blogosphere.

Here's some info on some of the documents already translated.

If you read nothing else today, make sure to go to this site.

Jveritas provides a translation of a document linking Iraq and Osama bin Laden CMPC-2003-001488 (hat tip: Jawa Report):

There's more there and more to come.

I BELIEVE THE RELEASE OF THESE DOCUMENTS WAS CAREHULLY TIMED.

THEY ARE BEING RELEASED NOW AS PART OF THE EFFORT TO PREPARE US FOR A MAJOR ASSAULT ON IRAN.

JUST WATCH.

Permanent Link | Posted by Pastorius at 6:40:00 PM | 2 comments

[RightWhale]

AN ARMY OF TRANSLATORS NEEDED

If they hope to go thorough 48 thousand boxes of documents before elections this fall they will need to hire some Iraqis who have learned some English. There should be no shortage of translators.

[johnny7]

It was long in coming... but at least it was released in a way that will circumvent MSM censorship.

[backhoe]

It was long in coming... but at least it was released in a way that will circumvent MSM censorship.

Once enough people on the web start rummaging through all this stuff, it will get very "interesting..."

[backhoe]

 Papers Give Glimpse of al-Qaida Recruits (more declassified DoD docs)

 

Declassified Truth (Pre War Iraq Terrorist Connections)

[eyespysomething]

The Iraq Docs

Release of Classified PreWar Docs ping. If you want to be added or removed to the ping list, please Freepmail me.

Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents

[backhoe]

Thanks for those pings.

[eyespysomething]

That's nothing! Your gathering of info is always great and so useful! Thanks for that.

[Calpernia]

As always, you rock backhoe!

[backhoe]

Your kind words are appeciated- thank you.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[backhoe]

Meanwhile, the blogosphere's Army of Translators--mother of all hat tips to Glenn Reynolds--is busy with Project Docex.

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DISCLAIM THIS

By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 17, 2006 02:17 PM

So, the MSM is slowly picking up on the historic release of thousands of documents from Saddam Hussein's archives. But not without making a concerted effort to downplay and undermine the story. Readers are calling attention to the disclaimers included in this ABC News story.  Will we see that helpful disclaimer--"this document is of limited evidentiary value"--the next time ABC News or Newsweek or the NYTimes or the Washington Post uses unnamed, uncorroborated informants?

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IraqtheModel has another translation. (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon)

Stay tuned to Pajamas Media:

Let the Pajamas folks know if you have posted translations/analysis of any of the Docex docs. Lots of work to do.

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It's funny that these documents are getting so little attention from the press. INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: WHAT LED TO THE DOCUMENT RELEASE? Here's at least part of the story.   One of the documents already translated by Iraq the Model here.  Comments (23)

Declassified doc Iraq show 3,000 Saudi and Iraqi mujihideen

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Mirror room at the Funhouse

Iraq the Model got his hands one of the untranslated Saddam-era documents now being released to the public, (possible in part through the efforts of Roger Simon) Omar writes:

Our friend Roger directed me to one document he though was interesting, and reading it, I believe he is right about it. Find my (hopefully accurate) translation of this document HERE.  "The neat thing is that they ignored the "Gate-Keepers," and just threw the documents over the wall, "right into the hands of the Blogospere."

W, you're learning."

 

 

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