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A number of valuable historic documents stolen from some of Israel's leading research institutions, including the Weizmann and Jabotinsky institutes, are being offered for sale in the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Antiquities expert John Reznikoff, who owns and operates University Archives, an antiquities dealership in Westport, Connecticut, told the Post on Monday that "all the major archives in Israel are being looted, and the items are ending up here in the US. Jewish culture is being sold for pennies on the dollar, and there's a general malaise at the institutions in Israel about the situation. "I'm very...

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) - Documents taken from an Iraqi scientist this week appear to have been related to laser enrichment, the head of the U.N. nuclear control agency said Saturday. U.N. inspectors went to the Baghdad home of physicist Faleh Hassan on Thursday and removed a number of documents, which the scientist said were from his private research and from doctoral theses of his students. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press that it was too early to tell what the documents were for certain and that he would get details when he and...

The Americans are sitting tight on the extremely valuable Iraqi intelligence archives discovered at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad and at sub-departments of Saddam’s clandestine machine never before known to exist. The only data released are a few leaks to the British media calculated to help prime minister Tony Blair stand up to anti-war campaigners at home and around Europe. From this treasure trove, America has distributed to its war allies some materials relevant to their national security. But no decision has been taken as to the disposition of documents attesting to the clandestine ties of collaboration maintained with the...

<p>Following is a transcribed excerpt from Fox News Sunday, April 27, 2003.</p> <p>SNOW: Mr. Chalabi, last week you told me you believed that Saddam Hussein is still alive and somewhere in Iraq. Do you still believe that's the case?</p> <p>CHALABI: Yes, I do.</p>

"These dramatic revelations come just when Britain needs an outspoken voice of dissent more than ever" Scott Ritter Friday April 25, 2003 The Guardian I was shocked to read about the allegations, ostensibly based upon documents discovered in Iraq, that George Galloway was somehow compensated financially by the Iraqi government for championing its cause. I was shocked because, if these allegations prove to be true, then the integrity and credibility of a man for whom I have great respect would be dramatically undermined. But I was also shocked because of the timing of these allegations. Having been on the receiving...

Saddam, bin Laden link found: Canadian reporter Last Updated Sat Apr 26 22:54:29 2003 BAGHDAD-- Secret documents uncovered in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's former spy agency show the first clear link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to a Canadian journalist. 'It was marked top secret, and of course they went to great lengths to try to mask the contents' – Mitch Potter Mitch Potter, a foreign correspondent with the Toronto Star, says he discovered the file while digging through what's left of the Mukhabarat intelligence office. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had already...

According to the papers, an Al Qaeda envoy met with Baghdad in March 1998 to create a relationship based upon a mutual hate of the United States and Saudi Arabia.An unidenfiied Western Intelligence Source describes the find of intelligence (linking Saddam and Al Qaeda) as 'sensational.'

How I found the papers in a looted foreign ministry office By David Blair in Baghdad (Filed: 22/04/2003) Standing on a heap of grubby box files piled on the floor in the office of Iraq's foreign minister, I dropped to my knees and started rummaging through a secret archive of correspondence. Documents stamped "Confidential and Personal" emerged from overflowing pale blue folders, all carrying the Iraqi eagle, the symbol of the state. Letters signed by famous names in Iraqi politics such as Tariq Aziz, once deputy prime minister, and Naji Sabri, the former foreign minister, were suddenly cascading on...

<p>A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.</p>

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Iraqi officials at their Brazilian mission were seen Wednesday burning what appeared to be documents outside their embassy, Brazilian news sources reported. A photo by Brazil's official news agency, Agencia Brasil, showed an Iraqi official throwing papers onto a fire in the garden outside the Iraqi embassy in Brasilia.Efforts by United Press International to confirm with Iraqi officials the exact content of the papers being destroyed or independently verify the incident were unsuccessful.Local news sources reported, however, that at least two embassy employees were seen carrying boxes of papers out to the garden where a fire...

<p>Researchers, genealogists and the plain curious can now use the Internet to check more than 50 million historical records at the National Archives, from Civil War battles to family immigration files.</p> <p>Before the system became available, people had to either visit the Archives and spend hours combing through documents or request the files by phone and pay to have them mailed.</p>

British Intelligence Documents 'Unfounded'CPI News Exclusive - Investigative Report Recent press reports and statements, including a statement from IAEA Director General Mohamed Elbaradei presented to the UN Security Counsel on March 7, 2003 indicate that documents allegedly obtained by British intelligence agents supporting allegations that Iraqi officials attempted to acquire uranium in 1999 and 2000 were fakes. Allegations were made that in 1999 and 2000 Iraqi officials attempted to purchase uranium from Niger. In fact, British intelligence sources claimed to have documents and in fact produced these documents in their 2002 "dossier" on Iraq's alleged possession weapons of mass destruction....

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SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Two workers in Orange County, Calif., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of shredding thousands of documents at an INS office. Dawn Randall and Leonel Salazar were indicted on one count of conspiracy and five counts of willfully destroying documents. The indictment alleges Randall, a file room manager, ordered Salazar and other employees last February to shred unprocessed documents after the office had discovered a 90,000-document backlog. Prosecutors say a month after the shredding began, the backlog dropped to zero. Prosecutors believe the papers were shredded at night to avoid detection. The...

Iraqi Challenges Critics Over Documents 7 minutes ago By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq challenged the United States on Sunday to produce evidence it still has weapons of mass destruction. "Why play a game?" a top adviser to President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) asked. AP Photo (AP Video) As the huge collection of documents on Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological programs was being flown to the U.N. headquarters, Lt. Gen. Amer Al-Saadi said the declaration demanded by the United Nations (news - web sites) is accurate and complete. Al-Saadi told reporters that...

Secret Kabul airport documents stolen in Rome AFP [ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2002 04:42:50 PM ] ROME: A pilot transporting equipment for Italian troops stationed in Kabul was robbed during a stopover in Rome of a computer containing confidential information about the airport in the Afghan capital, Italian police said on Saturday. The computer contained details of flight paths into Kabul airport and landing procedures there, they said. The computer was in a black bag which the pilot — a Ukrainian working for Italian cargo firm Saim Avandero — had also stuffed with thousands of dollars. The machine had been...

CIA Releases New 'Noah's Ark' Documents Posted Nov. 13, 2002 By Timothy W. Maier Is it the Ark, or just a piece of rock? Two years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey, the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House under former president George H.W. Bush. The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see "Anomaly or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's releasing...

La. Purchase documents returned to state Capitol Robert Morgan Posted on November 16, 2002 BATON ROUGE - Documents that comprise the Louisiana Purchase, one of three original copies, have been brought to the Old State Capitol for a six-month display as part of the 200th anniversary of the agreement. The documents were last in Louisiana in 1994. In a preview showing for news media, Secretary of State Fox McKeithen said the documents are on loan from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Jim Zeender, registrar for the National Archives, said historical documents such as the purchase documents normally are not...

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