The Iraqi WMDs That Slipped Through Our Fingers

front page magazine ^ | 06 april 2006 | Jamie Glazov

[unionblue83]

Frontpage Interview’s guest is Paul (Dave) Gaubatz, a former U.S. Federal Agent (Arabic linguist/counter-terrorist specialist) who was deployed to Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His mission was to search for WMDs. Four sites he identified were not searched by ISG (Iraq Survey Group) and he has waged a three year battle to get them searched. He is currently the Chief Investigator with the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Dallas, TX. He can be contacted at pdgaubatz@yahoo.com.

FP: Mr. Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Gaubatz: Thank you Jamie.

FP: Let’s start with your background. Tell us a bit about who you are and why you were sent to Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Gaubatz: I served 20 years on active duty with the USAF and had spent 12 of those years as an OSI Special Agent (counter-terrorism/counter-intelligence. After retiring I obtained a position as a civilian Federal Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI).

Directly after Sept 11th, I was sent to the U.S. State Department (Foreign Service Institute) for a one year intensive Arabic language course. Immediately afterwards I was deployed (as a civilian Agent) to Saudi Arabia from Jan 2003 until Mar 2003. I was the only civilian in the area.

[saganite]

I wonder if this guy has an axe to grind. It's not plausible that potential WMD sites were overlooked since that was Bush's primary justification to the American people for going to war. You would think that every effort was made to uncover WMD's so as to avoid what has happened since.

[observer5]

Leave it to teh gov. to f*** things up really good.

[SJackson]

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[happygrl]

My mission directly before the war was to develop intelligence to eliminate espionage by Saudi Arabian military officials who we suspected of passing U.S. war fighting intelligence to Iraqi intelligence officers. I conducted an operation against one Saudi military officer and his activities were deterred and he is no longer a U.S. threat.

Enough said.

[happygrl]

OK, here's one more thing:

Although I believe some of the WMD sites still contain chemical and biological weapons, there are indicators the Russians may have assisted in exploiting some of the WMDs from one or more of these sites. The Iraqi people told us that Russian intelligence had been well organized in Iraq before the war, and also Iranian personnel. We were told if we don't remove the WMDs, others will.