I have received most of the surveys back from the blogswarm that undertook a review of the newly-released documents regarding the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Most of the study's volunteers have remarkably similar comments about the information provided in the documents. The Denbeaux study which prompted this blogswarm reached a number of conclusions that appear now to be highly subjective assumptions. For instance, the Duke wrote after his review:
Some found some strange stories in the testimony, such as this from Commander Salamander:
The CQ Blogswarm Study Group consists of these volunteers: ( too many to list here, see link for names & links )
This interview of Tom Joscelyn by FrontPage Magazine provides an excellent summary of what we've learned so far from the Project Harmony documents. Tom adds some other information, too, some of which was new...
Iraq Documents Prove Saddam-Osama Relationship, Meanwhile Congress Bans Use of Jewish Bullets
Another very important document from Saddam's archives, translated by jveritas: A very interesting document. Note that the Iraqis were working on IEDs as early as 1999. Why, I wonder? The most striking thing, of course, is the reference to "Training of the Arab Fedayeens." "Arab Fedayeens" is, I believe, a common term for foreign terrorists.And note who wrote the memo: a "Senior Chemist." Which suggests that Iraq was sharing its knowledge of chemical weaponry with foreign terrorists as of 2000. Comments (13)
This PDF document is from July 20 1994 and it mentions IED... maybe you don't know much about EOD terminology?
http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/32/afpd32-30/afpd32-30.pdf
This from Oct. 1995:
http://www.army.mil/soldiers/oct95/p13.html
FReeper jveritas on kvi radio now (vanity)---This is stunning radio. I am very glad that the truth and facts about these documents are getting out. Excellent work as usual, Jveritas.
Declassified Iraqi Intel Documents Reveal Ties to French State Owned Oil Company
British investigators have finally started checking into MP George Galloway and his role in the Oil for Food scandal at the United Nations. The London Times reports that their diplomats have approached Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein, to see if he will talk about Galloway's relationship with the Hussein regime: Brits hauled off "thousands" of documents on the scandal and its relation to British politicians.For a refresher on all this, have a gander: http://www.seixon.com/blog/archives/george_galloway/perjury_investigation/
Joseph Shahda has translated another Iraqi intelligence document, which appears to indicate that Iraq procured equipment to detect nerve gas in or about December 2000. This equipment is described as "prohibited" and as "similar to the required quality compared with the Russian equipments," which are described as having "expired." It appears that the equipment was tested in December 2000 and was found to detect "nerve agents" successfully. Which certainly seems to confirm that Iraq had some quantity of nerve gas as of early 2001.
Joseph Shahda has translated yet another of the captured Iraqi government documents, and this one shows that Saddam Hussein's government produced banned nerve gas detectors in 2000. Shahda's discovery shows that Saddam never intended on stopping his WMD programs nor planned on complying with UN resolutions that supposedly "contained" Saddam (via Power Line):