Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 (Translation)

Pentagon/FMSO website about Iraq Pre-War Documents ^ | March 21 2006 | jveritas

[MizSterious]

And don't forget Backhoe's careful list of links pertaining to this story! Bookmark it and it will all be there.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And Saddam was right in the middle of it all!

Don't we now have multiple different documents establishing the OBL and Iraq connection?

Or perhaps I should say the case is stronger if we had multiple documents as opposed to multiple press reports from the same document!

[Marine_Uncle]

"Retracting that. You made it happen Marine Uncle! Thanks."
See. The old fart is good for something around here.

[Calpernia]

[SittinYonder]

separate heads of the same Hydra in my mind!

I may have been confusing al Qaeda's involvement in Riyadh for Khobar, or I may have just been wrong. I admit to getting pretty excited after reading jveritas' translation and trying to put two and two together.

[Marine_Uncle]

"And don't forget Backhoe's careful list of links pertaining to this story! Bookmark it and it will all be there."
I believe I have been bookmarking his URL refrences for the past few days. But will check via. his user name to make sure I got them all. We should be downloading a lot of this stuff to our local machines for the just in case.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See my questions, just above....

if we had multiple documents showing this connection between OBL and Saddam....


the Invasion Case gets MUCH STRONGER!!!!!

[eyespysomething]

If no one's found similar docs and put them together, I'll see what I can dig up later, but right now I have a date with 3 boys!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Questions at post #82.

[SittinYonder]

but right now I have a date with 3 boys!!

So this is what happens when I work late?! You dirty, no good ... oh, you mean the kids.

[Mo1]

the Invasion Case gets MUCH STRONGER!!!!!

And Chrs Matthews will have a stroke at that news

[Marine_Uncle]

A Heavenly tweety pie I presume. Hey! What's that on the lower left side, a flying saucer.

[SittinYonder]

Where do you guys come up with such unbelievable documents?

Welcome to Free Republic.

What's unbelievable about them?

[Marine_Uncle]

"And Saddam was right in the middle of it all!"
Fine chap he is. I don't know E. Don't ruin your brain on these preliminary excursions into seeking the truth. My philosophy is to give as little time to L/MSM stuff and concentrate on blogs and the occasional things that have real meat we find popping up at FR. One could go mad trying to sort out the false from the not so false to the almost truthfull.
All we need are a finalized set of documents cast in cement that show most of the key reasons this POTUS made his final decision to take out Saddam.
I personally don't need them, for they have existed for three years plus. But for the sake of solid rebutals against the left and still ill-informed a set of docs will come forth in due time. That is my take on it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just checking on the other Blogs and I find this:

An Army of Analysts
Collective analysis of captured Iraqi documents may produce much more than just answers about pre-war Iraq.
by Michael Tanji

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It is perhaps coincidental, but certainly apropos, that at the start of "Sunshine Week"--an annual promotion of openness and transparency in government--we receive word from Director of National Intelligence Negroponte that documents captured in Iraq will be released to the public for review and analysis. As someone who spent the last several years exploiting captured media for the U.S. government, I am keenly aware of the staggering scope and scale of the current effort. To be frank: Uncle Sam needs all the help he can get.

The significance of what can be uncovered by an external and independent analysis of captured media was recently illustrated by the Combating Terrorism Center at the Military Academy at West Point. The Center's 100-plus page analysis of just 28 declassified Iraqi documents provided some unique insights into the terrorism problem. That's 28 documents out of at least two million.

Recently, the New York Times reported on the publication of a report on the state of Iraq prior to and immediately after the start of Iraqi Freedom. This effort was a fusion of 600 captured documents, interviews, and interrogations of former regime members. It is not known if those interviewed were presented with copies of their own work written at the time Saddam was still in power, though given the state of Iraq immediately after shock and awe it is unlikely. As I have written previously, there is really only one way to re-create the information systems used by the senior leadership in Iraq prior to

the war. A more comprehensive analysis of pre-war Iraq would include such an effort because even under the friendliest of circumstances (interviewees were reportedly "wined and dined"), for some there will always be cause to be taciturn.

Both of the aforementioned efforts received a certain amount of intelligence community support, which meant the imposition of a pre-publication review requirement. Releasing documents to the public precludes the imposition of such a restriction, so in the interest of preventing an adversary from aggregating intelligence (piecing together an essentially classified picture by assembling unclassified and seemingly innocuous data points) some form of pre-release review is probably prudent. This may add some time to the starting point of any collective analysis, but it also means that the speed at which analytical findings are released are limited only by the effort put forth by the assembled analysts.

From a traditional intelligence perspective, a group analysis effort is something of a new concept. Intelligence "Community" projects are occasionally called for, but these are more collegial bouts over the odd debatable point--most analysts agree on 80 percent of any given issue area--than thorough and original examination of a given problem by any interested parties. Collective projects like the one analyzing documents on Guantanamo Bay detainees have produced encouraging preliminary results. Whether you call it a blog-swarm, the "wisdom of the crowds," or an "Army of Davids," the general concept is the same: the more determined individuals that are set on a problem, the better the result.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Michael Tanji is a former senior intelligence officer and an associate of the Terrorism Research Center. He opines on intelligence and security issues at blog.groupintel.com.

he has a Blog :

Intelligence An Army of Analysts (Scroll for Update)

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[Calpernia]

I never noticed that saucer shape before. I will have to ask my friend what it is. That is a caricature he painted of me. I took a picture and uploaded it for message board emotconing of sorts.