Mossad blamed for WMD failure (by distortion of a Sarid quote; my title)

The Scotsman ^

[rmgb]

„British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs"

FRASER NELSON and JASON BEATTIE Key points • UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons

• Mossad "knew 45-minute claim was an old wives’ tale" - but did not tell UK or US

• US Secretary of State "does not know" if he would have recommended invasion if he had been told Iraq had no WMDs
• Former civil service chief to lead investigation into whether British intelligence on Iraq was accurate
• Lib Dems boycott inquiry because of tight terms of reference

Key quote "Intelligence indicating that chemical weapons remained disassembled and that Saddam had not yet ordered their assembly was highlighted."

Story in full BRITISH intelligence officers learned on the eve of the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had not assembled his chemical weapons and it was highly doubtful if he could deploy any within 45 minutes.

The Foreign Office yesterday admitted that the joint intelligence committee (JIC) warned in March last year that "the intelligence on the timing of when Iraq might use chemical and biological weapons was sparse".

This disclosure came as a senior Israeli politician [Sarid] claimed that Mossad, its intelligence agency, knew before the war that the 45-minute claim was "an old wives’ tale" - but decided against telling Britain or the United States.

In a further blow to the British government, Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, has said he does not know whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq if he had been told it had no stockpiles of banned weapons.“

[rmgb]

Below there is proof of how Sarid's quote was distorted to scapegoat Israel:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0204/dailyUpdate.html?s=mits

„Bad day for Blair“

„Finally, the Associated Press reports that a prominent Israeli MP said Tuesday that his country's intelligence services knew claims that Saddam Hussein was capable of swiftly launching WMD were wrong but withheld the information from Washington. "It was known in Israel that the story that weapons of mass destruction could be activated in 45 minutes was an old wives' tale," Yossi Sarid, a member of the foreign affairs and defense committee which is investigating the quality of Israeli intelligence on Iraq, told the AP yesterday.

"Israel didn't want to spoil President Bush's scenario, and it should have," he said."

Sarid clearly says that Israel wanted to help the Bush case for war, and was thus acting in line with the US administration, and was not acting in her own interests.

But quote now, as the Scotsman shows, is distorted by suggesting that Israel was acting against its allies, US/UK. This will add to the already widespread shreds of disinformation that are presently being propagated in order to create a scapegoat for US/EU (and no, there is no enmity between the US and the EU on that issue) military intervention.The superpower (plus powerful allies as UK) being led into a trap by "that little --- country" - this is the propaganda message.

So this must be exposed and opposed right from the beginning. Ignoring it won't help. Propaganda of this kind threatens everybody, not "only" Jews and Israel.

[Howie66]

I'm wondering just why our troops were finding all those chemical warfare suits and antidote kits all over the place as we were rolling into Baghdad........

[boxerblues]

I'm wondering just why our troops were finding all those chemical warfare suits and antidote kits all over the place as we were rolling into Baghdad........

My son almost brought one back home as a souvenir but decided against it when he remembered they practiced with real chemicals, which was obvious from the condition of it.

[Howie66]

Then I guess that it's a good thing that the Iraqis didn't have that stuff.

[boxerblues]

Nope no WMD in Iraq, never has been ....try telling that to the guys who have been finding bits & pieces of it and very telling evidence only to have the news media bury the story completely just to lay blame on Bush for lying

[Howie66]

You know that our wonderful media types and members of the RAT party would never, ever do anything that would shed a poor light on our troops or our president. Not those fine caring people.......