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Who was the U.N.Inspector compromised??
Wolfowitz speech transcript
| 1-23-03
| Dog
Posted on 01/23/2003 12:41:45 PM PST by Dog
In the 1990s, there were reports that Iraqi intelligence recruited U.N. inspectors as informants, and that Iraqi scientists were fearful about being interviewed. Recent reports that Iraq continues these kinds of efforts are a clear sign that it is not serious about disarmament.
Today, we also anticipate that Iraq is likely to target U.N. and IAEA computer systems through cyber intrusions to steal inspections, methods, criteria, and findings. We know that Iraq certainly has the capability to do so. According to Khidhir Hamza's book, Saddam's Bombmaker, Iraq's Babylon Software Company was developing cyber warfare capabilities on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence Service as early as the 1990s. Some people assigned to Babylon were segregated into a "highly compartmented unit" and tasked with breaking into foreign computers in order to download sensitive data. Some of the programmers reported that they had accumulated sufficient expertise to break into moderately protected computer systems, such as those used by the inspectors.
Intimidation and Coercion: In the past, Iraq did not hesitate to use pressure tactics to obtain information about the inspectors. Often the pressure was quite crude. During the UNSCOM period, one inspector was reportedly filmed in a compromising situation and blackmailed.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: homeofthewhopper; inspectors; pervymclickspittle; ritter; thewhopperstopper
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Freeper copycat found this in the Wolfowitz speech today and I thought it needed its own thread.
Admin Moderator pull this out of breaking news if you feel it doesn't belong..
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:41:45 PM PST
by
Dog
To: copycat; PhiKapMom; Miss Marple; Howlin
Over here...
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:42:32 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
Hmmm, who could it be? Who could it be?
To: Dog
"thank heaven for 14 and 16 year old girls"
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:44:23 PM PST
by
finnman69
(Bush Cheney 2004)
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: The Great Satan
Hmmm, who could it be? Who could it be? SATAN?
Apologies to the Church Lady
jriemer
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:44:59 PM PST
by
jriemer
To: Dog
Please God, let it be him.
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:45:20 PM PST
by
McGruff
(It's Time to Bomb Saddam.)
To: jriemer
To: Dog
During the UNSCOM period, one inspector was reportedly filmed in a compromising situation and blackmailed. Oh I could take a guess
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:46:24 PM PST
by
Mo1
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To: The Great Satan
Hmmm, who could it be? Who could it be? Well, aside from the obvious guess, I'd say there were probably several of them. You just know that Iraqi intelligence had female (or even male) agents trying to crawl into every inspector's bed.
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:46:34 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: Dog
Can you give us a link to the complete speech?
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:46:56 PM PST
by
per loin
To: Badabing Badaboom
I wonder, did the Iraqis discover his 'weakness', then compromise him, then pay him $400,000 for his support? Didn't the Soviets raise this practice to an art? Are the Iraqis friends with the Russians?
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:47:41 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: Dog
Oh, it's breaking news alright. Interesting though. How do we know Iraq was blackmailing an inspector (most likely Ritter, of course)? How long have we known? Did Iraq know that we knew? Was Ritter allowed to proceed by the WH because they wanted Saddam to believe his plan to sow dissent against the war was working? If so, what does that say about Ritter now being compromised? That we don't care anymore if Iraq knows that we know? Why don't we care anymore? Because the war is imminent?
Better than Clancy.
To: per loin
You trying to be funny..???
Look at little further down in breaking news..
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:48:02 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog
I heard the Wolfowitz speech LIVE today.
When he said "Back in the 1990s, a UN inspector was compromised and blackmailed by Iraq", all I could here in my mind for three solid minutes was:
"Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter. Ritter."
How many times have we Freepers said on here, what with Scott Ritter's vitriol, that the only way a sane person could act this way were if he or she were being blackmailed or threatened.
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:48:33 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Oi! Saddamu. Nani yatterunda, kono tako! Kuru nara, koi!)
To: Dog
To: per loin
To: Dog; Admin Moderator
Good question, Dawg.
Admin Mod: I vote this stays in BN.
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:49:05 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Raving Lunatic LLC)
To: Cyber Liberty
Thanks..
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posted on
01/23/2003 12:50:00 PM PST
by
Dog
To: finnman69
someone set him up the bomb!
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