Posted on 06/09/2008 10:30:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE has once again released a report claiming that the Bush administration hyped prewar intelligence. The so-called Phase Two report is supposed to investigate the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence. In reality, the report is little more than yet another attempt by partisan Democrats to make political hay out of flawed prewar intelligence. (The only Republicans to endorse the report were two of the Senate's most liberal GOP members.) The committee focused exclusively on prewar statements by Bush administration officials, ignoring similar statements by leading Democrats. Therefore, the report is intended to portray the Bush administration in the worst possible light. But even with this bias, the committee came to a noteworthy conclusion: The Bush administration was right to claim that Saddam's regime was harboring al Qaeda members.
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report includes this conclusion at the end of a terse section on the Bush administration's claims about Saddam's prewar terror ties:
Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other al Qaeda-related terrorist members were substantiated by the intelligence assessments.
Intelligence assessments noted Zarqawi's presence in Iraq and his ability to travel and operate within the country. The intelligence community generally believed that Iraqi intelligence must have known about, and therefore at least tolerated, Zarqawi's presence in the country.
Regarding postwar information collected by the U.S. intelligence community, the report reads:
Postwar information supports prewar assessments and statements that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was in Baghdad and that al Qaeda was present in northern Iraq.
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I loved that thread, Ernest, but the title makes it sound as if some smart person finally gave those idiots, in the Senate, I.Q tests.
After I posted it,...I realized I should have added some kind of description ...to help make sense of what it was talking about,...but wasn’t sure what to put in there.,
It does kind of defy description, doesn’t it?
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Maybe more material will show up tomorrow...The DemonicRats need to be beaten up severely over this...
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As I recall, al Qaeda in northern Iraq was carrying out attacks on the Kurds for Saddam.
Thanks Ernest, g’night all.
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I'm convinced it is Ryan Crocker
Here is the document
Page 3 Translation from captured Iraqi document ISGZ-2004-031613.pdf
In The Name of God the Most Merciful The Most Compassionate
Directory of General Security
Directory of Security Ninevah Province
No: 10106
Directory of General Security/ Director Section 1
Subject: Information
Date: 24/8/2002
The confident (1253) declared the following:
1.On 21/8/2002 an American delegation who is visiting the Northern Region has paid a visit to the headquarters of the Iraqi communist party in Shaklawa. The representative of the communist party made presentation accusing the Iraqi government of hiding members of Al Qaeda organization in the region of Salman Pak in addition to members of the Turkish Workers party and the Iranian Moujahidee Khlak and that they are trained to use chemical weapons and that Iraq will use them in case there is military strike directed against it.
End of translation.
Iraqi Perspectives Project; Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents
About to shutdown down here....be back later this evening.
Even the America haters news network CNN reported Ryan Crockers visit in Northern Iraq with Kurdish groups.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/26/time.iraq/
“Yet while Ansar may share Saddam's desire to destroy the Kurdish leadership—in April, Ansar unsuccessfully attempted to kill one faction's prime minister when Assistant Secretary of State Ryan Crocker was visiting the area—the Iraqi dictator does not appear to have direct control over the Kurdish militants. Both Saddam and al-Qaeda may find Ansar’s activities useful, but there's no evidence that the group serves as a link between them.”
But the evidence about links became clear and the fruit loops at CNN never read this article written at the Weekly Standard.
Saddam's Ambassador to al Qaeda
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/768rwsbj.asp?p g=1
“In addition to weapons, al-Shamari said, the Mukhabarat also helped finance Ansar al Islam. “On one occasion we gave them ten million Swiss dinars [$700,000],” al-Shamari said, referring to the pre-1990 Iraqi currency. On other occasions, the Mukhabarat provided more than that. The assistance, he added, was furnished “every month or two months.”
Al Qaeda Document: Zarqawi Came to Iraq Before The War To Prepare The Fight Against U.S
I'm anxiously waiting to hear if there is any response from the McCain campaign when the message is relayed to him.
Thanks again, my FRiend!
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