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The Price of Victory -Full Story- The "bombshell" revelation from last April's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which was leaked to the New York Times in September, was that the war in Iraq had resulted in more terrorism, not less. As reported by United Press International's Claude Salhani, "Did we really need 16 intelligence agencies to tell us that? Ten minutes of watching the newscast of your choice, from Al-Jazeera to Fox News, would be enough to convince most observers." But the key question is why the war has provoked the global Jihad.One answer has to be the influence in...

<p>The New York Times article to be published on November 3rd 2006 is about the US putting some captured Iraqi documents on the Foreign Military Intelligence Office (FMSO) website that talks about what the NYT and the IAEA call sensitive information from Iraq 1996 "Full, Final, and Complete Declaration FFCD presented to the UN and IAEA in 1996 and that talks about Iraq nuclear clandestine program. The IAEA and the New York Times claim that Iran may be using some of the technology in this FFCD which is a laughable idea as shown below.</p>

You've probably heard it said over and over: Saddam Hussein's regime was strictly secular ! That's not what the captured Iraqi Intelligence Service documants show ! But wait: There's more !

Document CMPC-2003-016112.pdf contains Iraqi Intelligence memos from December 2000 to January 2001 that talk about a coming meeting between Saddam regime and French officials. In these memos the Iraq put some talking points to discuss with the French and among them is one where they want to ask the French to provide them with information about “US and Zionist Intelligence activities against Iraq”. Also in the talking points the Iraqi wants to ask France to support them in the UN Security Council. Anyone who questions why France was against the removal of Saddam regime will get a clear idea from...

Of all the reasons to get rid of Saddam one stands above all else: Bad rap videos. This propaganda video features a guy I have dubbed A.K. Fatty. Hint: When he is standing in front of the sand bags, check out the guy on the upper right.

Document CMPC-2003-015588.pdf which is dated March/25/2003 talks about a meeting between Iraqi Officials in Damascus and the leaders of the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) a terrorist group lead by Ahmad Gibril. The Palestinians pledged 500 fighters including groups that they call “Istish’Hadeyea” which means “Suicide Martyrdom” i.e. “Suicide Terrorists” to come to Iraq and fight the US lead collation troop. The group also included terrorists who are IED experts and car bombs experts. These hundreds of Palestinians terrorists were to go to Iraq through Syria. The Iraqis approved this Palestinians offer, and in handwritten note over...

We've all heard the saying "lies, damn lies, and statistics," but it's time that we looked at that a little differently with the "main stream" media: lies, damned lies and "main stream" media outlets.  Below this short introduction is probably over 100 sources gathered from Free Republic and other internet areas.This is the beginning of a compilation and catalog of the media corruption, and how the "main stream" media outlets in the United States routinely lie to the American Public to advance the Democratic "agenda."  Please bear in mind that this is JUST THE BEGINNING of a massive expose on...

In what is so far the most important evidence of Saddam personal involvement in re-building Iraq nuclear program , document CMPC-2003-012331.pdf dated January 2001 indicates that during a meeting between Saddam and the Staff of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization Saddam was asked by the Organization Staff to give his permission for re-using the infamous “ Degussa Vacuum furnaces ” that were used in the previous and prohibited Iraq nuclear program. These furnaces can be used to melt uranium and other nuclear related activities.The Degussa Vacuum furnaces were supplied to Iraq in the 1980’s by a German firm (Degussa AG...

Just days before the anthrax attacks of 2001 started in the United States, the Saddam regime appears to have received intelligence of an impending attack on its own government. According to a newly translated memorandum, Saddam’s office issued a security alert on September 17th, 2001 for a “poisonous paper” attack. The alert consisted of a warning that “agents” who were instructed by their “Iranian masters” were going to submit personal paperwork to Iraqi government offices that it called “poisonous papers”. While the memo does not state the nature of the poison, due to the context of the memo it seems...

In this Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7 2001, there was a discussion in upper echelon of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves are the results of massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm Operation. What is also very interesting about this document is that it mentions how to give the priority of covering the story to CNN so it will have an effect on the international arena as the document says (Highlighted...

Document CMPC-2003-006431.pdf contains a series of Saddam speeches dated between September 12 2001 and October 29 2001. In these speeches he addresses the terrorist attacks of 9/11 but of course he never called it terrorist attacks. Some of the speeches are open letters to the American and Western people and some were speeches during meeting with some of his government members. The translated speech below was given by Saddam on September 12 2001 during a meeting with members of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission (MIC) in which he blames the US for 9/11 saying that it was the US evil...

Document CMPC-2003-006758.pdf contain a memo form the Iraqi Intelligence Service ( The Apparatus) dated March 28 2001 that talks about plans to “Strike US presence and interest” in response to the new policies of President Bush toward Iraq and that aims at toppling the regime according to the memo. Few months ago there was another memo from the Iraqi Air Force also dated March 2001 that talk about recruiting member of the Iraq Air Force to conduct suicide missions against US interest (March 2001 Document: Saddam Regime Recruits Suicide Terrorists to Hit US Interests http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610012/posts). This document CMPC-2003-006758.pdf is...

Documents CMPC-2004-003978.pdf and CMPC-2004-002191.pdf contains memos dated from 1999 to 2001 that talk about projects sponsored by the Iraqi Atomic Nuclear Agency to rebuild some of their nuclear facilities and equipments. All the projects were dated after the UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in December 1998. These facilities and equipments were part of Iraq clandestine nuclear weapon program before the 1991 Gulf War and they were destroyed by the bombing and some were dismantled by the UN weapon inspector. Rebuilding these nuclear facilities and equipments was totally prohibited per the UN sanctions. The facilities include rebuilding Iraq Radioactive Waste Treatment...

As part of our Guest Essay series, I asked Joseph Shahda to write for us on the topic of translating Sadaam Hussien's captured documents. Mr. Shahda, who goes by the screen name "jveritas" on FreeRepublic.com, has had a article written about him in the Boston Globe: ( http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/03/18/us_puts_iraqi_documents_on_the_web/ ) "Joseph Shahda earns his living as an engineer. But in his spare time, he's an intelligence agent, working to ferret out the truth about the regime of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When the US government on Thursday began publishing captured Iraqi government documents on the Internet, Shahda eagerly began to...

Document http://70.168.46.200/Released/10-02-06/CMPC-2003-004963.pdf is a “coded” handwritten letter in English from a person called Amelia Rovena Guadagno to Saddam Hussein dated September 2001. The writer of the coded letter is asking Saddam to “Nuclear the United States as required and as soon as possible as this is September 2001”. In fact the document later on indicates that this letter was written on or before September 8 2001. I have no idea what this letter means, whether it is a hoax, whether it is true, but someone may find something about it that it is not clear to the naked eye. You...

How many times have we heard members of the media say, “We know now that there were no ties between Saddam and Al Qaeda”? Typically, people make this claim based on any combination of four sources: President Bush’s 9/17/03 statement, Sec. Powell’s 1/8/04 statement, the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report of 7/22/04 or the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) report on Pre-war Iraq intelligence reports: 7/7/04. Yet, in each of these cases, the very quotations that opponents of the war in Iraq point towards as definitive claims of “no ties” are only half quotes. When they refer to President Bush’s...

As soldiers and Marines by the hundreds of thousands return home from Iraq they are telling their stories. They are telling family and friends of what they saw and of who they fought. They are writing books that tell of their experiences. Amazon.com is full of them. They have fought and lived through a dramatic and on-going historical event. To them it is real-not politics and so they tell the truth. They describe an invasion and an occupation where Islamic extremists and Iraqi thugs are the enemy. They tell tales of a fight against terrorists; people who rammed cars filled...

Many of the quasi-conclusions are based largely on claims of innocence from Saddam Hussein, “a top official in Saddam’s government, Abid Hamid Mahmoud al-Kattab al-Tikriti,” Tariq Aziz and Faruq Hijazi. These are 4/7 of the primary players in any involvement or potential involvement between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda. The other 3 primary players are Mohammed al-Douri (He is Saddam’s VP/muscle man/Thug-In-Charge who remains at large. He is also suspected of being the primary source for most of a large portion of the insurgency and most reports place him as directing operations from inside Syria). The last 2 primary players...

the Phase II report says: “The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which is leading the exploitation effort of documents (DocEx) uncovered in Iraq, told Committee staff that 120 million plus pages of documents that were recovered in Iraq have received an initial review for intelligence information. As of January 2006, 34 million pages have been translated and summarized to some extent and are available to analysts in an Intelligence Community database.” pg 62/400 And while that might mislead people into thinking that the assessments made are full and complete, it isn’t until later in the report that a little caveat is...

I generally go through the pre-war Intelligence Services documents every day, looking for ones already translated/already in English. It's pretty dull reading as a rule, but I had to laugh when I saw this Nigerian E Mail-apparently sent to Saddam himself-who to his Intelligence Service to be translated. I wonder how much the Butcher of Baghdad got conned out of ! Nigerian Scam E mail Received by Saddam Hussein From: MARYAM ABACHA mamaba2002@email.com c/o The Abacha’s Family Legal Adviser (Abacha’s Family Estate) BARRISTER: TOM BELLO Esq. Email:tombello@maktoob.com Attn.: The President/CEO I am Dr. (Mrs.) Maryam Abacha, wife to the late...