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Members of some reknown requested a post of document-related links, so here 'tis.

 

A note from your compiler- perhaps it is time for all this info to be posted on the web, in its entirity, so denizens of the 'net can translate and interpret.

 

Captain's Quarters initiated a similar project for Gitmo documents- see here:

 

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

Gitmo Study Nears Completion

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 )

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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

Operation Blessed July

Another document released by the FMSO from the captured files of the Iraqi Intelligence Services shows that Uday Hussein, in 1999, ordered a series of bombings and assassinations in London, Iran, and in the autonomous areas of Iraq. Document ISGZ-2004-018948 shows a response from a Saddam Fedayeen operative to Uday himself outlining the plan, known as Operation Blessed July:UPDATE: Thomas Joscelyn wrote about this at the Weekly Standard last March: Posted by Captain Ed at 08:31 PM | Comments (6)

The Saddam-Osama Connection

One of the documents released by the FMSO project contains the records of the Iraqi regime's early connections to Osama bin Laden, starting in 1994 and continuing at least through 1997. It comes in the middle of document ISGZ-2004-009247, a review of Iraqi Intelligence Service contacts in the region and summaries of the combined efforts that they produced.

UPDATE: This document provides the prologue to the Feith memo. Remember how many people discounted that intelligence assessment?

UPDATE II: Laurie Mylroie had this translated herself from the original Arabic-only release in March.

Posted by Captain Ed at 06:12 PM | Comments (6)

 

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Iraqi Intel Memo Describes Osama Connection

FMSO has translated a new set of documents from those captured in the fall of Saddam Hussein, and one of them seems very provocative indeed. A memo from the Afghan section of the Directorate of Counterintelligence (M5) to the head of M5 dated September 15th, 2001 relays information from an Afghani source that Taliban consul discussed the relationship between Osama, Iraq, and the Taliban. Document CMPC-2003-001488 had previously been translated by Iraqi blogger Omar at Iraq the Model for Pajamas Media last March, but now has been translated by the government:

More news from today on Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda.......
http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/07/izzat_aldouris_interview_with/

http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/07/kashmiri_terrorists_al_qaeda_a/

More expected in the next two days as well at www.regimeofterror.com

Posted by Captain Ed at 07:30 PM | Comments (6)

 

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Post-Invasion Intel Showed WMD Went To Syria

Among the captured documents of the Iraqi Intelligence Services is a memo written in Arabic that describes pre-war intel from an Iraqi source working in Syria. Dated July 13, the memo itself was written after the invasion, but it describes the movement of trucks from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasions. Document ISGQ-2005-00022470 has notations reading "DOD" that indicate the Pentagon has already reviewed the data: A look at a map shows Dayr az Zawr in the middle of nowhere, with plenty of space to hide stockpiles from 50 trucks. Posted by Captain Ed at 01:59 PM | Comments (21) | TrackBack (4)

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Saddam Documents: Fences Make Good Neighbors Edition

A newly-translated document from the archives of Saddam Hussein’s ISI indicates that the regime kept some kind of weapons in Baghdad that made Saddam's elite Special Republican Guards nervous enough to keep hidden -- in a residential area. Document CMPC-2003-000788 contains a memo...

The memo included a block drawing by Taha showing the problem.

Click here for a larger view of the drawing. The center shows four cache facilities where the Special Republican Guard kept its ammunition -- including the SRG Artillery Battalion. Posted by Captain Ed at 05:52 PM | Comments (4)

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Thanks to a Special Freepmailer for pointing to JVeritas various translations and posts. Note: To view more of these translations and posts, check the Freeper Keyword "prewardocs."

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=prewardocs

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695883/posts

"2002 Document: Request for Precursor That Can Be Used To Make VX Nerve Gas (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents ^ | September 5 2006 | jveritas"

Posted on 09/05/2006 11:49:36 AM PDT by jveritas
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657480/posts

"Iraqi Documents: Plans To Produce Prohibited Chemical Weapons Precursors (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents ^ | June 28 2006 | jveritas"

Posted on 06/28/2006 6:34:38 PM PDT by jveritas

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600579/posts

"Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website about Iraq Pre-War Documents ^ | March 21 2006 | jveritas"

Posted on 03/21/2006 3:18:32 PM PST by jveritas

221 posted on 09/05/2006 5:06:18 PM EDT by Cindy

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Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 (Re-Post For A Reminder)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents http://70.168.46.200/ ^ | September 8 2006 | jveritas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697938/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698518/posts

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Saddam and the AP

A captured document from Iraq shows that Saddam Hussein had a source inside the Associated Press.  link: 69 comments

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The Return Of CMPC-2003-001488

Two months ago, almost to the day, I posted about a translation of a captured IIS document, CMPC-2003-001488, that described intelligence that the IIS garnered from one of its Afghan contacts regarding ties between Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein. I also noted in that post that the memo had been translated by Iraqi blogger Omar at Iraq the Model and at Pajamas Media last March. Tapscott's Copy Desk notes that blogger Fix 4 RSO has now also discovered this memo, which appears to put lie to the notion that post-war intel failed to show any operational ties between Saddam Hussein and AQ.

Here's the memo as I posted it in July:

Office of the Presidency Intelligence Service M5/3/9/2

The Honorable Mr. General Director Manager M5
Subject: Information

Our Afghani source numbered 11002 had provided us with the information on the denotation paper number -1- )
The Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahstani (the information on the denotation paper number (2)) had mentioned in front of him with the followings:

1. Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban Group in Afghanistan were in touch with the Iraqis and that group of the Talibans and Osama Bin Laden had visited Iraq.
2. The United States of America has evidence that the Iraqi government and Osama Bin Laden's group expressed cooperation among themselves in bombing targets in American.
3. In case Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were proven to have been involved in carrying out these terrorist operations, it could be possible that the United Stated will attack both Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. The Afghani consul heard about the connection between the Iraqis and the Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran.
5. Upon what has been presented we suggest writing to the Intention Committee with the above information.

Please revise…Your recommendation …. With appreciation,

Obviously, the case worker for this source at M5/3 (the directorate for North Africa and East Asia) was very concerned that the US had information that exposed an operational link between Iraq and AQ. It doesn't mention any specific tie to the 9/11 attack, but it states that the Afghan source believed that we had proof of their intent to bomb American targets. The IIS was very concerned that the information he believed we already had would lead the US to attack both Afghanistan and Iraq -- and this memo was written four days after 9/11.

This didn't get treated like speculation, either. The case worker directed this memo to the head of M5, responsible for counterintelligence, for his immediate attention. It also got copied to the "Intention Committee President", apparently a separate review process for intel. The IIS considered this important data.

However, as I pointed out, it's hardly new. It's been in the open for at least six months, and the government translation for two. All of which casts even more doubt on the Senate report that claims no additional evidence of connectioned between Saddam, Osama, and the Taliban came to light in the post-invasion period. Has the Senate even bothered to look through the FMSO documents?

Posted by Captain Ed at 09:11 PM | Comments (9) |

"Has the Senate even bothered to look through the FMSO documents?"

What - and ruin their fantasy world with facts?

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March 2003 Iraqi Document: Orders to Hide Weapons In Underground Shelters (Pentagon Translation)

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2001 Document: Saddam Regime Gives CNN Priority For News Coverage (Translation)

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2003 Document: Hundreds of Palestinian Terrorists to Join Saddam And Fight US Troops (Translation)

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Why is your vote so critical?

WWIV

We are in it:

JVERITAS Responds to the 11/3 NYT Article Regarding Iraq Nuclear Program.

So I Guess The FMSO Documents Are Legit

Over the past year or so, I have provided CQ readers with a number of translations from key Iraqi Intelligence Service documents that have been translated by either the FMSO or by Joseph Shahda of the Free Republic website. I even engaged two interpreters to verify one particularly explosive memo last April, after Shahda published his own translation. Now we find another verification of their authenticity, this time from the New York Times, which reports today that the documents constitute a national-security threat: This is apparently the Times' November surprise, but it's a surprising one indeed. The Times has just authenticated the entire collection of memos, some of which give very detailed accounts of Iraqi ties to terrorist organizations. Just this past Monday, I posted a memo which showed that the Saddam regime actively coordinated with Palestinian terrorists in the PFLP as well as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. On September 20th, I reposted a translation of an IIS memo written four days after 9/11 that worried the US would discover Iraq's ties to Osama bin Laden.

What other highlights has the Times now authenticated? We have plenty:

* 2001 IIS memo directing its agents to test mass grave sites in southern Iraq for radiation, and to use "trusted news agencies" to leak rumors about the lack of credibility of Coalition reporting on the subject. They specify CNN.

* The Blessed July operation, in which Saddam's sons planned a series of assassinations in London, Iran, and southern Iraq

* Saddam's early contacts with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda from 1994-7

* UNMOVIC knew of a renewed effort to make ricin from castor beans in 2002, but never reported it

* The continued development of delivery mechanisms for biological and chemical weapons by the notorious "Dr. Germ" in 2002

Actually, we have much, much more. All of these documents underscore the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and show that his regime continued their work on banned weapons programs.

UPDATE: More at Stop the ACLU and QandO. And Michelle Malkin has a great take on this -- the paper that blew a series of highly classified national-security programs wants to point fingers about the status of these documents? Posted by Captain Ed at 12:14 AM | Comments (14) | TrackBack (7)

NY Times: Iraq Within A Year Of Building Bomb In 2002

November 3rd, 2006

A seemingly inadvertent admission from the "Paper Of Treason," the New York Times:

U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide

November 3, 2006
By WILLIAM J. BROAD

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials.

Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

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Saddam Was Close to a Nuclear Bomb

Here’s the New York Times’ November surprise: U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide.

Apparently, in 1991 Saddam Hussein was about a year away from a nuclear bomb, and possessed detailed plans to build one. The Times wouldn’t be publishing this if they thought it would help the GOP, and the angle here is that the Bush administration was sloppy with intelligence secrets, since some of the plans were made publicly available on the Iraq documents web site.

But it’s a weak last-minute play, that could just as easily be interpreted as a positive story for the Bush administration since it lends credence to fears of Iraqi WMD.

UPDATE at 11/2/06 10:17:02 pm:

Note paragraph 13 (hat tip: LGF readers):

Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

Is the New York Times actually conceding that Saddam was just a year away from having a nuclear weapon in 2002?

08:29 PM PST | link: 339 comments

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#248 Isi

Perhaps others have already mentioned this but the above is NOT the same as having the appropriate materials to do so.

Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

ANOTHER FORMER HIGH-RANKING IRAQI OFFICIAL CONFIRMS WMD WENT TO SYRIA

Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti was a southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia in the late 1980s and a personal friend of the dictator. Units under his command dealt with chemical and biological weapons.

A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq WMD located in three Syrian sites

Nizar-Nayouf, a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, [2006], to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf,” that he knows the three sites where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are kept.

Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw: Russia Moved Saddam's WMD

A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them.

For those in still in denial, Saddam's WMD went to Syria...

Shocker: New York Times Confirms Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Program

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Iraqi Document: Saddam Regime Spying on the IAEA (Congressman Hoekstra is Right) (Translation)