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Saddam Planned To Deploy 'Camels Of Mass Destruction' (Free Republic Mention)
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-26-2006 | James Langton

Posted on 03/25/2006 6:23:46 PM PST by blam

Saddam planned to deploy 'camels of mass destruction'

By James Langton
(Filed: 26/03/2006)

Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces.

The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip foreign insurgents drawn up by the dictator shortly before the American-led invasion three years ago, reveals a 37-page report, captured after the fall of Baghdad and just released by the Pentagon. It is part of a cache of thousands of documents that the United States Department of Defence says it does not have the resources to translate.

British soldier in Iraq

Earlier this month, the Pentagon released copies in the original Arabic onto the internet in the hope that others would interpret them into English.

Handwritten on official paper, one of the reports appears to be a road map for the insurgency, with detailed instructions for training what it calls suicide bombers.

In the memo, they are described as "estishehadeyeen", Arabic for suicide martyrs, and would almost certainly have been foreign volunteers.

The memo details a training commission to be headed by senior officers, including a colonel from the "Directory of Political Orientation". Their job, says the report, was to "prepare a very intensive training course", "to raise the physical fitness and train in the use of Kalashnikovs and hand grenades".

It continues: "The largest section of the course will be specialised to focus on using the explosive material in the body, in motorcycle, in cars, and in camels". Camels will be "provided by the Directory of General Military Intelligence".

The memo also reveals the incredible bureaucracy that underpinned Saddam's Iraq. Rifles and hand grenades were to be provided by a Department of Armament and Equipping, explosives by the Directory of Military Engineering and "religious sermons that emphasise jihad'' by the Directory of Political Orientation and the Religious Scholars.

The papers have been translated by Arabic-speaking members of Free Republic, a conservative internet discussion forum that believes the documents will justify British and American claims that Saddam had made Iraq a haven for terrorists.

If the translation is correct, it suggests that many of the foreign fighters now attacking coalition forces and bombing Iraqi civilians were directly trained by the Saddam regime, although there are no known reports of camels being used in suicide attacks.


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To: Mo1

BTTT!


41 posted on 03/25/2006 7:17:23 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: prairiebreeze

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/ied-iraq.htm

Many IEDs have been placed in these median strips, some placed under girders. Meals, ready-to-eat (MRE) boxes, soda cans, manholes, tunnels burrowed under roads, cement-encased bomb projectiles, and even dead animal carcasses have been used by the insurgents to conceal IEDs.


42 posted on 03/25/2006 7:17:33 PM PST by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift from God, but it should not be abused." Pope John Paul II)
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To: blam
He had people slated to go to London also:

Iraqi Perspectives Project & the Saddam Fedayeen

******************************* AN EXCERPT *********************************

Thomas Jocelyn cites captured Iraqi documents related to this in greater depth in a Weekly Standard article titled "Blessed July" that is likely based upon the same documents included in the IPP.

As Jocelyn notes, the documents are the same one's discussed in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, which adds that the Blessed July operation was ordered by Uday Hussien.


43 posted on 03/25/2006 7:21:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: prairiebreeze
"I think this one knows something"

Yea! He Nose Somthin'

That's the one that bit my sister!

44 posted on 03/25/2006 7:21:58 PM PST by Nova
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To: Mo1

Even children who were murdered then booby-trapped to kill the parents who came for them.

Sick ba$tards.


45 posted on 03/25/2006 7:27:19 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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To: operation clinton cleanup
I used to have a t-shirt from the first gulf war that showed an F-111 blowing up a camel.. it read "I would fly 1,000 miles to smoke a camel".

I remember seeing those.

46 posted on 03/25/2006 7:27:33 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (God bless our military)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
I believe it was put out by the 48th TFW from RAF Lakenheath at the time... it promptly shrank to 1/2 its size after its first washing!
47 posted on 03/25/2006 7:33:13 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: operation clinton cleanup

I like the in-flight shot that you have on your profile page.


48 posted on 03/25/2006 7:38:07 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (God bless our military)
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To: Mo1

Thanks for the ping..


49 posted on 03/25/2006 7:41:28 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: jveritas

I believe you are famous....congratulations.


50 posted on 03/25/2006 7:42:13 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

It's a "fantasy" painting... but would not be surprised if a B-1B pilot has not done that in real life.


51 posted on 03/25/2006 7:43:49 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: blam

I no longer sympathize with Joe Camel-the SOB got what he deserved.


53 posted on 03/25/2006 7:49:47 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (President Bush isn't absolutely perfect,but he is absolutely less flawed than his critics .)
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To: blam

Fantastic!


54 posted on 03/25/2006 7:49:55 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: blam

bump


55 posted on 03/25/2006 7:50:28 PM PST by lesser_satan
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Gosh...

I wonder if they ever considered developing a Camel TOW missle? *grin*


56 posted on 03/25/2006 8:16:06 PM PST by P H Lewis (One of the fundamentals of democracy is knowing where to place your machine gun. - Foggy)
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To: blam

So he was sending in his 'heavy' armor.


57 posted on 03/25/2006 8:34:57 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: freedumb2003; jveritas

jveritas gets the credit!!


58 posted on 03/25/2006 8:43:38 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: PzLdr
"So he was sending in his 'heavy' armor."

'The Mother Of All Armor', no less.

59 posted on 03/25/2006 8:47:40 PM PST by blam
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To: jveritas

Are your ears ringing yet?

It's you we are all bragging on! Congratulations for making the international news!


60 posted on 03/25/2006 9:02:05 PM PST by Shelayne
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