Posted on 12/24/2007 5:24:12 PM PST by roaddog727
We live in an age of documents. There are no more secrets, only deferred disclosures.
Saddam Hussein's secret documents are measured by the shelf-mile and stored inside a secure but dusty facility near U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and in several subsidiary sites.
Armed guards protect the unread dossiers. Three shifts of two hundred translators each work around the clock. Perhaps 5% of these captured documents have been studied so far, but their contents are about to shatter much of the conventional wisdom concerning Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
The absolutists on either side of the WMD debate will be more than a bit chagrinned at the disclosures. The documents show a much more complex history than previously suspected. The "Bush lied, people died" chorus has insisted that Saddam had no WMD whatsoever after 1991 - and thus that WMD was no good reason for the war. The Neocon diehards insist that, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the treasure-trove is still out there somewhere, buried under the sand dunes of Iraq.
Each side is more than a little bit wrong about Saddam's WMD, and each side is only a little bit right about what happened to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at loftusreport.com ...
Hey bro, Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the ping.
Getting a package together for the media push... send me what you want included.
Do you want me to send you what I think are the most important documents I found regarding Saddam WMD programs? How about Saddam regime strong relations to terrorism?
Also, he was not supposed to lock on or fire on planes in the no-fly zone.
He did this weekly, and sometimes, daily.
Each time we then had the authority to start the war right back up again.
And Rockefeller... and Dashcle... and Durbin... and Leahy...
A very Merry Christmas to you and yours. :))
In the FrontPageMag article Loftus references longitude 35 degrees, 16 minutes, 49.31 seconds North by latitude 40 degrees, 3 minutes, 29.97 seconds East which is within a black square with a black line into and forking within. Resolution poor, as though the whole scene smudged by a giant hand.
Had heard spetznatz convoy to Bekaa on eve of invasion. Now references to the bravado of Hezbollah that their fighters will shock the IDF by appearing out of no where, reference to tunneling.
Bush seems to think the time is right for another round of bullying Israel into concessions while negotiating with Iraq's neighbors.
I would recommend a very strong opening position on our part.
Yes sir, send it all. Thanks.
Ping.
Merry Christmas my FRiend.
you can’t reason with people who think “911 was an inside job.”
I have to wonder about a report that relies on “Debkafiles” as one of its sources.
**SADDAM REALLY DID HAVE WMD**
Of course he did. Everyone let the dimocrats talk us out of the facts.
**the demoncrats lie about there not being any wmd.**
Exactly!
JANUARY 2003 mid : (IRAQ, UN, ONE SCIENTIST SEARCHED HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PAPERS, ANOTHER WAS CAUGHT BY IRAQ TRYING TO ESCAPE, WAS PROBABLY EXECUTED) UNITED NATIONS weapons inspectors in Iraq revealed last night that they had discovered 3,000 documents linked to nuclear arms technology while searching a scientist's house. The documents were recovered from the home of Faleh Hassan, an Iraqi physicist and director of a military installation west of Baghdad. Mohamed El Baradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Hassan's papers related to a laser technique for enriching uranium, a component of nuclear weapons. ...* This weekend American intelligence officers were investigating a report that a senior official in Iraq's ministry of industry and military industrialisation, which oversees weapons production, had been killed. He had been trying to flee the country for Jordan with his wife and two children a week ago, but had been stopped. "He was trying to leave with information, but the Mukhabarat [intelligence service] are watching him and all people like him," said an Iraqi source opposed to the regime. "They brought him back to Baghdad. We think he [was] executed." There has been no confirmation of the claim.
JANUARY 16, 2003 : (IRAQ : UNMOVIC DISCOVERS EMPTY CHEMICAL MUNITIONS - IRAQ ACTS INNOCENT AND APPOINTS A "COMMISSION OF INQUIRY" ) Among other developments, the report [ the twelfth quarterly report of the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) in accordance with paragraph 12 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999), covering UNMOVIC's activities from 1 December 2002 to 28 February 2003.] notes that, on 16 January, UNMOVIC inspectors discovered a number of empty 122-mm chemical munitions. Following that discovery, Iraq appointed a commission of inquiry. - "Statements to the UN Security Council by two Inspectors and Members of the SC, 7 Mar 2003 ," UN Press Release SC/7682, 07/03/2003, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859554/posts
JANUARY 16, 2003 : (IRAQ) Previously undisclosed warheads for chemical weapons are discovered by UN inspectors. A joint UNMOVIC/IAEA team also find a significant cache of documents related to Iraqs uranium enrichment program in the home of Iraqi scientist Faleh Hassan. --------------- Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History.
JANUARY 30, 2003 : (IRAQ : RIGHT UNDER THE NOSES OF THE UN INSPECTORS IN IRAQ, IRAQI MILITARY STILL CONCERNED ABOUT HIDING EVIDENCE OF WMD : OFFICER FROM THE REPUBLICAN GUARD HQ ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS TO AN OFFICER IN THE FIELD: THE US SECRETLY TAPES THE CONVERSATION AND POWELL WOULD PLAY PART OF IT BEFORE THE UN IN FEBRUARY 2003)
... HQ : "They are inspecting the ammunition you have, yes?"-- Source: "Remarks to the United Nations Security Council," by Secretary Colin L. Powell, New York City, February 5, 2003FIELD OFFICER : "Yes. For the possibility there are forbidden ammo."
HQ : "For the possibility there is, by chance, forbidden ammo?"
FIELD OFFICER : "Yes.
HQ : "And we sent you a message yesterday to clean out all the areas, the scrap areas, the abandoned areas. Make sure there is nothing there.
...
HQ : "After you have carried out what is contained in this message, destroy the message because I don't want anyone to see this message."
FIELD OFFICER : "Okay."
...
JANUARY 2003 : (IRAQ : UNMOVIC INSPECTIONS : UNMOVIC ASKS IRAQI SCIENTISTS, ETC, TO SIT FOR INTERVIEWS IN BAGHDAD, BUT REQUEST IS REFUSED; IRAQ SHIFTS FOCUS BACK ONTO UN WITH HALF-MEASURE PROMISE) During the review period, UNMOVIC requested 28 individuals to present themselves for interviews in Baghdad without the presence of observers. None of them agreed. During the January meeting, the Iraqi side committed itself to "encourage" persons to accept interviews "in private." - "Statements to the UN Security Council by two Inspectors and Members of the SC, 7 Mar 2003 ," UN Press Release SC/7682, 07/03/2003, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859554/posts
(* Note that Iraq refused this - claiming the scientists refused in order to preserve its media image- and note that the UN never did get useful interviews by interviewing people outside of Iraq )
FEBRUARY 3, 2003 : (DATE OF IRAQI DOCUMENT CONCERNING CHEMICAL WARFARE RELATED EQUIPMENT)Document Dated February/3/2003: Chemical Gears for The Chemical Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603039/posts
FEBRUARY 2003 : (TWO GERMAN NATIONALS ARE CHARGED WITH TRYING TO SMUGGLE MISSILE PARTS INTO IRAQ) Two German nationals are charged with attempting to smuggle over 2,000 missile parts into Iraq.-- via "Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History, " Various Sources , 02-20-03 , by PsyOp
FEBRUARY 2003 : (IRAQ : AL-TUWAITHA : IAEA INSPECTORS SEARCH KNOWN SITES AT AL-TUWAITHA, BUT MISS AN UNDERGROUND CITY OF LABS, WAREHOUSES AND OFFICES WHICH WOULD LATER BE FOUND AFTER THE COALITION INVASION) International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors who combed the site [al-Tuwaitha] - "Marines hold nuclear site," by Carl Prine, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Wednesday, April 9, 2003
FEBRUARY 19, 2003 : (UN ON IRAQI WMD) The UN says, though, that Iraq has failed to account for 1,000 tonnes of chemical agents from the war against Iran; to reveal the whereabouts of 6,500 missing chemical rockets; to produce evidence it has destroyed 8,500 litres of anthrax; and to account for 380 rocket engines smuggled into Iraq with chemicals used for missile propellants and control systems. ---- 'Three mystery ships are tracked over suspected 'weapons' cargo," independent.co.uk ^ | 2/19/03 Posted on 02/18/2003 4:47:00 PM PST by knak
FEBRUARY 21, 2003 : (IRAQ & UN INSPECTIONS : UN ORDERS IRAQ TO DESTROY AL SAMOUD 2 MISSILE SYSTEM & REBUILT CASTING CHAMBERS) Iraq has declared development and production of two types of missiles that were capable of surpassing the proscribed range limit of 150 kilometres. As a result of expert assessments, it was concluded that all variants of the Al Samoud 2 missile were inherently capable of exceeding the range and, therefore, constituted a proscribed weapons system. Clarification of the Al Fatah missile data was required before the capability of the missile system could be assessed. On 21 February, UNMOVIC directed Iraq to destroy the proscribed missile system, as well as reconstituted casting chambers. - "Statements to the UN Security Council by two Inspectors and Members of the SC, 7 Mar 2003 ," UN Press Release SC/7682, 07/03/2003, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859554/posts
(* No one seems concerned that Iraq reconstituted its casting chambers?)
FEBRUARY 2003 : (IRAQI MISSILE EXPERT, GENERAL MUHAMMAD SA'ID AL DARRAJ IS POISONED) SADDAM Husseins top missile expert has been murdered to stop him blabbing to the UN.
General Muhammad Said al Darraj died on Thursday after Saddams men poisoned his drink.
Relatives say he was ordered to hide details of Iraqi Scuds from the UN but devious Saddam did not trust him....
----------- "Iraq Scud boss poisoned, " by GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON, The Sun, March 1, 2003
FEBRUARY 23, 2003 : (IRAQ : UN ARMS INSPECTORS VISITED FACILITY IN THE VICINITY OF KARBALA CHEMICAL PLANT - KARBALA PLANT IS WHERE US ARMY WOULD LATER FIND BURIED SHIPPING CONTAINERS OF LAB EQUIPMENT) U.N. arms inspectors visited a facility in the immediate vicinity of the [Karbala] chemical plant Feb. 23, but did not find the buried equipment. [that 101st Airborne later found buried at the plant] Officials at the U.S. Central Command suggested that no conclusions should be drawn.- "Experts: U.S. 'Discovery' of Nuke Materials in Iraq Was Breach of U.N.-Monitored Site," Thursday, April 10, 2003 Associated Press via Fox News
MARCH? 2003 : (SATELLITES SPOT FLOW OF TRAFFIC INTO SYRIA JUST BEFORE THE US INVASION OF IRAQ IN MARCH) In a briefing for journalists reported on October 29, 2003, the director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency said satellite images showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion in March 2003. Retired Air Force Lieutenant General James Clapper Jr. said he believed "unquestionably" that illicit weapons material was transported into Syria and perhaps other countries. He said "I think people below the Saddam- Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse. ... I think probably in the few months running up to the onset of the conflict, I think there was probably an intensive effort to disperse into private hands, to bury it, and to move it outside the country's borders." ----------------- "Iraqi Chemical Weapons," http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/
******
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph published on January 25, 2004, Dr. David Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey Group, said there was evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before the start of the war to overthrow Saddam. "We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."---------------------- "Iraqi Chemical Weapons," http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/
2003 : (US SATELLITES SPOT SUBSTANTIAL VEHICULAR TRAFFIC GOING FROM IRAQ TO SYRIA JUST PRIOR TO US ATTACK ON MARCH 19, 2003- See WEAPONS INSPECTOR DAVID KAY) "In his testimony before Congress last year, weapons inspector Kay said U.S. satellite surveillance showed substantial vehicular traffic going from Iraq to Syria just prior to the U.S. attack on March 19, 2003." 47 posted on 04/18/2004 11:38:09 AM PDT by Maria S
2003 end of summer : (IRAQI WMD GOODS PLACEMENT IN HEZBOLLAH-CONTROLLED LEBANON IS IDENTIFIED) Towards the end of summer 2003, Israel identified the placement of Iraqi WMD goods in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Israeli spy satellites had captured on film several tractor-trailers filled with Iraqi weapons (they assessed them to be WMD later) in the Bekka Valley. The weapons were then connected to strange shipments that occurred between January and the first week of March 2003. Additional information indicated that Saddam Hussein paid Bashar Assad, Syrias president, approximately $35 million to hide the supplies.[67] Not long after this was reported, additional press reports indicated that privately the United States had begun to suspect that the theory about WMDs in Lebanon to be correct.------------ ?Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties ?
“Saddam called in the PutinExpress ( PudEx ) were you have to have your WMDs in Syria over night.”
I too believe that is EXACTLY what happened!
Someday when the real history of our IRaq war is made public.....
Nah. Saddam joined the isotope of the month club.
You know how hard it is to quit those clubs...
okay, some misplaced attempted levity in a very serious subject, have a Merry Christmas
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.