 merrie says: It's true that the Pentagon report found no "smoking gun," i.e., a direct connection on a joint Iraq-al Qaeda operation. Supposedly this vindicates the view that Iraq's liberation was launched on false premises. But the Administration was always cautious, with Colin Powell alleging merely a "sinister nexus" in his 2003 U.N. speech. If anything, sinister is an understatement. The main Iraq intelligence failure was over WMD, but the report indicates that the CIA also underestimated Saddam's ties to global terror cartels. The Administration has always maintained that Iraq is just one front in the war on terror; and the report offers "evidence of logistical preparation for terrorist operations in other nations, including those in the West." In 2002, an IIS memo explained to Saddam that Iraqi embassies were stockpiling weapons, while many of the terrorists trained in Fedayeen camps were dispatched to London with counterfeit documents, where they circulated throughout Europe. Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy http://www.husseinandterror.com/ More links at the end of http://www.husseinandterror.com/ 1. "The Paper Trail: Newly released documents provide more evidence of Saddam's terror ties," By Laurie Mylroie, OpinionJournal.com (Wall Street Journal online) Sunday, April 2, 2006 GO TO ARTICLE 2. "Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership," By Kevin M. Woods, et al, Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Defense Department, Spring 2006. GO TO ARTICLE [PDF] 3. "Did Russian Ambassador Give Saddam the U.S. War Plan?" http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490 4. "Team W's Unilateral Disar... Great article. My nephew was in Iraq for a year and his job was categorizing and preserving the videos, computer records, etc. that were captured from terrorist camps in Iraq. He was able to show us a few of the propaganda films that they showed to potential recruits. As a regular American, and just a person, what I saw was horrifying. All the info that is being processed and revealed to *regular* people now will not receive the press that the initial nay-sayers, the dooms-day prophesiers, and the 'Bush-lied' contingent received when the war began. So what you might hear now is the truth. What you heard before was peoples' opinions, thoughts and conclusions based on limited information. All the info that is being processed and revealedAfter U.S. military entered Baghdad, they collected millions of documents from the Iraqi Ministry of Information, which are still in the process of being translated. As far as the WMD issue, Jay Rockefeller made a trip to the MiddleEast in January 2002: What was Jay Rockefeller doing in 2002? Apparently alerting certain Middle Eastern leaders that he was ’sure’ President Bush planned to launch an attack on Iraq. Powerline has a transcript of an interview Fox News’ Chris Wallace did with the Senator. The quote in question (emphasis added): SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No. The – I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’... Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says Staff Reporter of the Sun January 26, 2006 The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed. http://www.nysun.com/article/26514 |
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