 WMD evidence in Iraq - Last updated July 12, 2004 |
| WMD evidence in Iraq - Last updated July 12, 2004 |
| The Left insist there were no WMD (weapons of mass destruction) in Iraq. They believe that Saddam was unqualified to hide, dismantle or move them, even though he had billions of dollars and millions of slaves at his disposal. This wild eyed belief largely rides on the back of the silly idea that Coalition spy planes and satellites would know every move Saddam made. While surveillance facilities are very useful, they are easily avoided by cunning terrorists all the time, through the use of tunnels, pipes, camouflage, simulacrums, various types of blocking equipment, vehicle fake temperature controls, and a hundred other tools. If anyone finds that hard to believe consider this: The New York Mafia move hundreds of tons of illegal goods around every year, and do so under the noses of the FBI, the CIA, thousands of cops, the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines, health inspectors, hotel inspectors, traffic cops, civilians, priests, firemen, doctors, lawyers and politicians, right in the middle of New York, Chicago and every other major city in the U.S.A. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, all Saddam had to put up with were a few toothless UN inspectors. On the basis of this the Left want you to believe that Saddam, who was a thousand times bigger than the Mafia, couldn’t import a room full of WMD, and hide or move it when the time came.
Aside from this there are many other pieces of information that point fingers at Saddam. I wanted to compile a list of these on one page, for reference, and this is it. Many thanks to Murf who put all the information below together, and to Cross_and_Flag and Mixed_Humor for much of the information also. Thanks to www.libertynewsforum.com for its ongoing debates on the subject. Rob Larrikin |
WMD Evidence in Iraq http://reason.com/hitandrun/005379.shtml |
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| Iraqi WMD Components Found in Rotterdam Scrapyard http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/june/0617_unmovic_report.shtml June 17, 2004 NEW YORK (Talon News) -- In its latest report to the U.N. Security Council, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) disclosed that a number of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) components have turned up in a scrapyard in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Among the items uncovered were several rocket engines used in Iraqi Al Samoud 2 missiles. The Commission's experts were conducting an investigation in parallel with the IAEA Iraq Nuclear Verification Office following reports of increased radiation readings at the facility when the discovery was made. Company staff members at the scrapyard confirmed that other items made of stainless steel and other corrosion-resistant metal alloys bearing the inscription "Iraq" or "Baghdad" had been observed in shipments delivered from the Middle East since November 2003. A number of items were examined and sampled on-site by UNMOVIC experts with a portable metal analyzer and were determined to be composed of inconel and titanium -- both dual-use materials subject to monitoring. The existence of missile engines originating in Iraq among scrap in Europe may affect the accounting of proscribed engines known to have been in Iraq's possession in March 2003. Representatives of the scrapyard company indicated that a number of similar engines (5 to 12) had been seen in the scrapyard in January and February of this year. More engines could have been processed and passed through the yard unnoticed. Additionally, the Commission is aware from comparative analysis of recent satellite imagery that a number of sites previously known to have contained equipment and materials subject to monitoring have been either cleaned out or destroyed. One satellite image of a storage facility in Shumokh taken in May 2003 clearly shows nine large storage buildings surrounded by piles of materials and other scrap. In a more recent satellite image taken in February 2004, all nine of the large storage buildings are gone. Another issue currently under examination by UNMOVIC is the evaluation of Iraq's procurement network that operated from 1999 to 2002, the period in which inspectors were absent from Iraq. During this period, Iraq utilized a sophisticated procurement network for the acquisition of foreign materials, equipment, and technology. The network consisted of state-owned trading companies, established and controlled by the Military Industrialization Commission of Iraq, with branches in foreign countries, Iraqi private sector, and foreign trading companies operating in Iraq and abroad. From 1999 to 2002 Iraq reportedly procured a variety of dual-use biological and chemical items and materials, including chemicals, equipment and spare parts. In many instances Iraq provided misleading declarations regarding the suppliers and sources of the items and materials as well as procurement channels, claiming that they had been purchased on the local market. It appeared that they had been procured outside Iraq through private trading companies operating both in and outside of the country. According to the UNMOVIC report, Iraq used the same acquisition methods for other WMD programs. There is evidence that from 1999 to 2002 Iraq procured materials, equipment, and components for use in missile development. In one instance, 380 SA-2 missile engines used in the production of Al Samoud 2 missiles were acquired through outside sources. The missiles were determined by UNMOVIC in February 2003 to be proscribed or subject to U.N. monitoring. UNMOVIC is also investigating Iraq's procurement, through foreign trading companies, components and equipment for the manufacture and testing of missile guidance and control systems, including inertial navigation systems with fiber-optic and laser ring gyroscopes and Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment, accelerometers, ancillary items and a variety of production and testing equipment. Copyright © 2004 Talon News -- All rights reserved. |
| UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Friday, June 11, 2004 The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program. The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared. UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the council on June 9 that "the only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap," Middle East Newsline reported. "It's being exported," Perricos said after the briefing. "It's being traded out. And there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal." "The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags. He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East. at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month. Destionations included Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters – the latter required for the production of chemical and biological warheads. "It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for," Ewen Buchanan, Perricos's spokesman, said. "You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax." The UNMOVIC report said Iraqi missiles were dismantled and exported to such countries as Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile, one of at least 12, was discovered in a junk yard, replete with UN tags. In Jordan, UN inspectors found 20 SA-2 engines as well as components for solid-fuel for missiles. "The problem for us is that we don't know what may have passed through these yards and other yards elsewhere," Buchanan said. "We can't really assess the significance and don't know the full extent of activity that could be going on there or with others of Iraq's neighbors." UN inspectors have assessed that the SA-2 and the short-range Al Samoud surface-to-surface missile were shipped abroad by agents of the Saddam regime. Buchanan said UNMOVIC plans to inspect other sites, including in Turkey. In April, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed El Baradei said material from Iraqi nuclear facilities were being smuggled out of the country. |
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| REMEMBER THIS STORY FROM 2003?? Check out this excerpt: "The US protested in December 2002 when Iraq ordered large quantities of atropine through the UN Oil for Food Programme . Iraq said it needed the drug for medical use." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chemical weapon antidotes found in Iraqi base Source 17:44 26 March 03 NewScientist.com news service US Marines say they have discovered drugs used by soldiers to counter chemical weapons and 3000 chemical protection suits at a hospital used by Iraqi forces in the town of An Nasariyah. The discovery has added to fears that Iraq might use chemical weapons against invading British and US troops. In particular, General Vincent Brooks, at US Central Command in Doha, Qatar, said on Wednesday that Marines had confiscated "nerve agent antidote auto-injectors" at the hospital. Chest containing atropine injectors reported by US Marines at An Nasariyah (Image: Capt. NV Taylor/US Marines/Getty Images) Many arms experts believe Iraq possesses nerve agents such as sarin and VX. These work by increasing levels of the neuromuscular transmitter acetylcholine, sending muscles into spasm. Atropine blocks acetylcholine. US and UK troops, as well as Israeli civilians, carry purpose-made self-injectors. These are 18 centimetres long and contain atropine and other chemical antidotes, which a person can administer to the thigh even when incapacitated.  The US protested in December 2002 when Iraq ordered large quantities of atropine through the UN Oil for Food Programme. Iraq said it needed the drug for medical use. Clouds of chemicals The presence of chemical weapons defences in a forward battle position such as An Nasariyah suggests that Iraqi commanders were expecting nerve agents. They may have expected the US and UK forces to use them, however unlikely that idea appears to observers in those countries. But because clouds of chemicals can move unpredictably - or be released prematurely if enemy bombardment strikes a chemical munitions dump - it seems more probable that Iraqi troops were seeking protection against their own weapons. Any use of chemical weapons would graphically reveal Iraqi denials of their possession as lies, and justify the US and British reasons for their attack. But most weapons experts contacted by New Scientist expect that whatever weapons Iraq has will be used in any last-ditch defense of the regime. Human waves But how would they use them? Iraq first developed chemical weapons in order to counter "human wave" attacks during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. Their use, which killed 20,000 Iranians, was "successful" because fewer than 15 per cent of Iranian troops had gas masks. But coalition troops carry full chemical protection. Moreover, the Iranians were not highly mobile. The main US defence strategy for any large attack with chemical agent is to detect it, and then simply go around it. So Iraq may not try such an attack, says Jonathan Tucker of the Institute of Peace, a Congressionally-funded think tank in Washington DC. "They would have to deliver literally tonnes of agent against the target for it to work," he says. "To do that they would need a massive artillery barrage, or aircraft." Coalition air power could easily destroy either before many chemical shells or rockets were fired. Instead, says Tucker, Iraq may coat certain areas with persistent weapons such as VX, or mustard gas - for which there is no antidote - to force invading troops onto terrain of Iraq's choosing. It used this technique against Iran. Worst of all, Tucker fears Saddam Hussein might direct a chemical attack on civilians to create a humanitarian emergency and distract his attackers. His regime released various chemical weapons against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq in the 1980s, killing thousands of civilians. Debora MacKenzie |
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| IRAQ THE FACTS The facts are there and the evidence is solid. Saddam Hussein was not complying with his obligations which were clearly spelled out in the 1991 Cease Fire Agreement. The weapons inspection teams were never created to "find" weapons of mass destruction. That task alone would be nearly impossible, much less probable inside of a country that had an extensive program of deceit and secrecy. The burden of proof was on Iraq to be forthcoming, declare their programs, allow unfettered access and destroy any illegal weapons of weapons systems under U.N. supervision. 3. Iraq regime change was the official U.S. Policy 5. Iraq had ties to terrorism 6. Unilateral Action was an acceptable U.S. Doctrine 7. Containment was an ineffective doctrine So we revisit square one: Show me a man that understood the above outlined positions, yet refused to take action against Iraq...and that individual is not fit to be Commander in Chief of the United States. Innaction was no longer an option. |
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The Saddam-9/11 Link Confirmed Former White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke is a prime example of this phenomenon. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when President Bush asked him to look into the possibility of Iraq's involvement, Clarke was “incredulous” (his word), treating the idea as if it were one of the most ridiculous things he had ever heard. On September 18, when Deputy National Security Adviser Steven Hadley asked him to take another look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, Clarke responded in a similar fashion. |
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Pesticides, Precursors, and Petulance UNSCOM inspectors understood these factors when they concluded in 1995 that, at the time of Operation Desert Storm in January of 1991, Iraq had largely solved key technical issues. The problem of precursor storage and stabilization for VX, a powerful and persistent nerve agent was solved by Saddam's scientists. In addition, UNSCOM noted the development of prototypes for binary sarin (non-persistent nerve agent) artillery shells and 122mm rockets. Binary rounds consist of two non-lethal substances that combine upon detonation to form a lethal agent. But later ISG tests resulted in a proclamation of negative, end of story, nothing to see here, etc., and the earlier findings and injuries dissolved into non-existence. Left unexplained is the small matter of the obvious pains taken to disguise the cache of ostensibly legitimate pesticides. One wonders about the advantage an agricultural commodities business gains by securing drums of pesticide in camouflaged bunkers six feet underground. The “agricultural site” was also co-located with a military ammunition dump, evidently nothing more than a coincidence in the eyes of the ISG. |
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| Just an excerpt.. Russia The highest-ranking Communist bloc defector, Ion Mihai Pacepa (defected from Romania when it was still Communist) has warned that Russia has an interest in having Iraq's WMDs disappear. He explains that Russia had a key role in Saddam receiving the weapons initially, and had a secret operational plan to make them “disappear” should it become necessary. The plan was called “Sarindar”, or, “Emergency Exit”. Pacepa played a key role in Operation Emergency Exit in Libya. The goal of the plan? To remove all WMDs from any third world ally that was being invaded by the West. The plan, he writes, originally developed for Libya (and to hide Russia's complicity in the activity) was quickly expanded to other allies of Russia including Iraq. As a bonus, the operation “would frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.” WMDs would be burned or buried deep at sea (in Libya's case, most likely underground for Iraq), but technical documents would be preserved in small water-proof containers for future use. All the plants for WMDs would have a civilian cover, so the West could not prove they were WMD sites. The plan involved an intense propaganda campaign, in which the politicians making the accusations towards the Soviet/Russian ally would be mocked. Among the propaganda activity would be anti-Western demonstrations and protests. Pacepa says he knows first-hand that the Operation Emergency Exit was applied to Iraq, because Ceausescu, Brezhnev, Andropov and Primakov all informed him about it. It is interesting that Primakov also is known to be close to Saddam Hussein and to regularly consult with him (and was in Baghdad from December 2002 up until when the war began). Pacepa concludes Russia advised Iraq on how to implement its old Emergency Exit plan.[72] Pacepa's theory makes plenty sense. As stated above, a senior bodyguard for the Iraqi inner circle has said Russian technicians were present at a major WMD site. Former head of Biopreparat, Ken Alibek has said that it is likely that Soviet biological weapons were sent to Iraq, and that Russia assisted Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons programs even after the Soviet Union fell. The Wall Street Journal's Robert Goldberg has cited a bioterrorism expert explaining that Russia was Iraq's main supplier of materials and technical know-how to make anthrax, smallpox and botulism. Former UN inspector Richard Spertzel reports that Russia gave Iraq some fermentation equipment to produce biological weapons, and that Russians on his UN inspection team were “paranoid” about his efforts to uncover Iraq's smallpox production. Goldberg explained that no nation has helped Iraq rebuild WMDs more than Russia.[73] It is also well-known that retired Russian generals have gone to Iraq to help guide Saddam Hussein on defending the country from invasion. They were there right up to the days before war. A Russian diplomat in New York in early April 2003 confirmed that several Russian military advisors were in Iraq, and that Putin knew about it. The Russian advisors were teaching the Iraqis how to fight urban warfare, and not to engage on open fields.[74] Captured files also show that Russian agents informed Iraqi intelligence on the status of US war preparations, and gave them a heads-up that the war would begin in mid-March.[75] On March 26th, US troops south of Baghdad claimed to have found Russian chemical warheads with a launcher and a chemical weapons specialist. A reporter with the Third Infantry Division confirmed the incident.[76] We heard nothing about it afterwards. It is highly possible, in my opinion, that the US covered the story up, because it would upset our “ally”, Russia. If going public with such a claim would hurt the chances of Russia helping get international forces in Iraq or to help with Iran, then that would explain why such a cover-up occurred. Of course, that is assuming the story is true. The conclusion of the report is that there is no conclusion. Will the United States take action against Syria? Did Russia have a role in the disappearance of the WMD? All that is left is questions unanswered. But one thing is for sure, there is a geopolitical game being played with the US, and the WMDs are just a tool in that game. Thus, all these questions can be summed up in one question: Does the United States care enough about the game to just accept its war against Iraq, and to proceed with winning the game? “WMD: Believe Iraq or Believe the Evidence?" Compiled By: Ryan Mauro Full Article Full Article here: (This is a little dated, but still excellent) |
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| Who Armed Saddam again?? Source  Arms transfers to Iraq, 1973-2002 Source Below are two files containing data on major conventional weapons transfered to Iraq for the period 1973-2002. The first file provides SIPRI Trend Indicator Values for major conventional weapons transfered to Iraq expressed in US $m. at constant (1990) prices for the period 1973-2002. The data are presented according to major suppliers and are also expressed as percentages. Transfers of major conventional weapons to Iraq 1973-2002, (Acrobat file 4k) The following file contains a register that describes the weapons on order or under delivery, or for which the licence was bought and production was under way or completed during the period 1982 to 2001. This register also provides comments and some additional information on each deal. Register of the transfers and licensed production of major conventional weapons to Iraq 1973-2002, (Acrobat file 17k) When using SIPRI data for arms transfers made to Iraq after 1990, the following points should be taken into account: a] Although the SIPRI Arms Transfers Project has monitored reports of transfers of major conventional weapons to Iraq since 1990, none of these reports have been sufficiently well documented to confirm a transfer has taken place. b] The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project only reports transfers of complete major conventional weapon systems. Thus, reports that indicate Iraq has obtained parts of a given weapon system, even if confirmed, would not be registered as a transfer. c] See the Arms Transfers Project's chapter in the forthcoming SIPRI Yearbook 2003 for further details on suspected transfers to Iraq since 1990. d] Information on suspected transfers of major conventional weapons and related equipment can be obtained from the Arms Transfers Project. e] Details of arms embargoes in force against Iraq can be found at the Export Control Project. Updated and further data are available on request; please address requests for information to the Arms Transfers Project. Information on the sources and methods used in compiling SIPRI data can be found here. Conventions, abbreviations and acronyms used can be found here. |
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| Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs October 2002 Source Key Judgements: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs Discussion: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs UN Security Council Resolutions and Provisions for Inspections and Monitoring: Theory and Practice Nuclear Weapons Program Chemical Warfare Programs Biological Warfare Program Ballistic Missile Program Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program and Other Aircraft Procurement in Support of WMD Programs Here    |
| From Russia With Terror By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | March 1, 2004 Frontpage Interview's guest today is Ion Mihai Pacepa, former acting chief of Communist Romania's espionage service. In 1987 he published Red Horizons (Regnery Gateway), reprinted in 24 countries. In 1999 Mr. Pacepa authored The Black Book of the Securitate, reportedly an all time bestseller in Romania. He is now finishing a book on the origins of current anti-Americanism . Frontpage Magazine: Welcome to Frontpage Interview, Mr. Pacepa. Let's begin. As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take direct orders from the Soviet KGB, you are obviously armed with a wealth of information. You have written about how the Soviets armed Hussein with WMDs, and also taught him how to eliminate any trace of them. Can you talk a bit about this and tell us its connection to the “missing WMDs” in Iraq today? Pacepa: Contemporary political memory seems to be conveniently afflicted with some kind of Alzheimer's disease. Not long ago, every Western leader, starting with President Clinton, fumed against Saddam's WMD. [b]Now almost no one remembers that after General Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law, defected to Jordan in 1995, he helped us find “more than one hundred metal trunks and boxes” containing documentation “dealing with all categories of weapons, including nuclear .” He also aided UNSCOM to fish out of the Tigris River high-grade missile components prohibited to Iraq. [/b]That was exactly what my old Soviet-made “Sãrindar” plan stated he should do in case of emergency: destroy the weapons, hide the equipment, and preserve the documentation. No wonder Saddam hastened to lure Kamel back to Iraq, where three days later he was killed together with over 40 of his relatives in what the Baghdad official press described as a “spontaneous administration of tribal justice.” Once that was done, Saddam slammed the door shut to any UNSCOM inspection. FP: So was any Sãrindar plan activated? Pacepa: Certainly. The minimal version of the Sãrindar plan I made for Libya's Gaddafi. Soon after I was granted political asylum in the US, Gaddafi staged a fire at the secret chemical weapons facility I knew about (the cellar underneath the Rabta chemical complex). To be sure the CIA satellites would notice that fire and cross that target off its list, he created a huge cloud of black smoke by burning truckloads of tires and painting scorch marks on the facility. That was written in the Sãrindar plan. To be on the safe side, Gaddafi also built a second production facility, this time placed some 100 feet underground in the hollowed-out Tarhunah Mountain, south of Tripoli. That was not in the Sãrindar plan. FP: It is undeniable, therefore, that Saddam had WMDs, right? Pacepa: In the early 1970s, the Kremlin established a “socialist division of labor” for persuading the governments of Iraq and Libya to join the terrorist war against the US. KGB chairman Yury Andropov (who would later become the leader of the Soviet Union), told me that either of those two countries could inflict more damage on the Americans than could the Red Brigades, the Baader-Meinhof group and all other terrorist organizations taken together. The governments of those Arab countries, Andropov explained, not only had inexhaustible financial resources (read: oil), but they also had huge intelligence services that were being run by “our razvedka advisers” and could extend their tentacles to every corner of the earth. There was one major danger, though: by raising terrorism to the state level we risked American reprisal. Washington would never dispatch its airplanes and rockets to exterminate the Baader-Meinhof, but it might well deploy them to destroy a terrorist state. We therefore were also tasked to provide those countries secretly with weapons of mass destruction, because Andropov concluded that the Yankees would never attack a country that could retaliate with such deadly weapons. Libya was Romania's main client in that socialist division of labor, because of Ceausescu's close association with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Moscow kept Iraq. Andropov told me that, if our Iraq and Libyan experiment proved successful, the same strategy would be extended to Syria. Recently, Libya's Gaddafi admitted to having WMD, and the CIA inspectors found them. Why should we believe that the almighty Soviet Union, which had proliferated WMD all over the world, was not able to do the same thing in Iraq? Every piece of armament Iraq had came from the former Soviet Union—from the Katyusha launchers to the T72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes. In the spring of 2002, just a couple of weeks after Russia took its place at the NATO table, President Putin and his ex-KGB officers who are now running Russia concluded another $40 billion trade deal with Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime in Iraq. That was not for grain or beans—Russia has to import them from elsewhere. The Rest |
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| Tenuous Links – The Media, The 911 Commission And The Truth |
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| Gorelick Memo Exposes 'Feckless' Clinton Policy Posted April 14, 2004 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Originally posted April 13, 2004; updated with contents of memo on April 14, 2004. In a dramatic moment of his testimony before the 9/11 commission this afternoon, Attorney General John Ashcroft released a previously classified memo from 1995 that instructed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys around the country to ensure they had "walled off" overseas intelligence information from domestic crime-fighters. The separation between overseas intelligence gathering and domestic criminal prosecution has been widely criticized by both Democrats and Republicans on the committee for having helped make the 9/11 attacks possible. "[T]he simple fact of Sept. 11 is this," Ashcroft testified: "We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies. Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls, handcuffed by government-imposed restrictions, and starved for basic information technology. The old national intelligence system in place on Sept. 11 was destined to fail." Ashcroft went on to explain the "wall" that had been erected between criminal investigators and intelligence agents was "the single greatest structural cause for Sept. 11 [successes by al-Qaeda]." He said, "Government erected this wall. Government buttressed this wall. And before Sept. 11, government was blinded by this wall." Ashcroft then described the 1995 memo that initially established the wall, which later impeded the investigations of the 9/11 hijackers and their accomplices. When frustrated field agents complained to headquarters about it in August 2001, Justice replied: "'These are the rules.' ... But somebody did make these rules," Ashcroft said. "Someone built this wall." Then the attorney general dropped his bombshell: "Although you understand the debilitating impact of the wall, I cannot imagine that the commission knew about this memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review. Full disclosure compels me to inform you that its author is a member of this commission." The 1995 memo by then Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick - now a member of the 9/11 commission - explains that the new rules dictated by the Clinton administration to separate criminal investigations from intelligence gathering "go beyond what is legally required." The Gorelick rules were meant to ensure that "no 'proactive' investigative efforts or technical coverages" of terrorist suspects be carried out on U.S. soil. The result of the 1995 Gorelick rules, Ashcroft said, were devastating, and hampered the ability of U.S. intelligence agencies to communicate the identify of two of the 9/11 hijackers to law-enforcement agencies, even after they had entered the United States. That failure specifically contributed to 9/11. Click here to read the contents of the Gorelick memo or view in PDF format. Article Gorelick memo she forgot to divulge before serving on the 9/11 commission joke, that walled off information sharing between CIA and FBI. Actual document |
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| ***GRAPHIC*** Iraqi victims tortured by Saddam's group during interrogation http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Free_Iraq.htm http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Tortured%2008.jpg http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Tortured%2003.jpg http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Tortured%2005.jpg http://members.cox.net/free_iraq/Tortured%2006.jpg Everyone who mentions the US Abu Ghraib "torture" should see this video (IT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN!): http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.844,filter.all/event_detail.asp The Coalition has rescued Iraqis from Saddam and his sadistic regime. I'm ready for the Democrats in this country to begin supporting America instead of her enemies |
| Revealed: the Iraqi colonel who told MI6 that Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes During the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, said that the information contained in the intelligence dossier relating to the 45-minute claim had come from a single "established and reliable" source serving in the Iraqi armed forces . Privately British intelligence officers have claimed that they believe the original source was killed during the war. |
| October 22, 2001, CNN Khidhir Hamza: Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi weapons program http://www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/22/hamza.cnna/ Dr. Khidhir Hamza was educated in the United States, then was deceptively persuaded to return to Iraq by Saddam Hussein, where for over 20 years he was forced to work at developing an atomic weapon. In 1994, he defected to the U.S. Embassy in Hungary. Dr. Hamza now works as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy, and is the author of "Saddam's Bomb Maker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda." HAMZA: Saddam has a whole range of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological and chemical. The nuclear program is his primary weapon, and that would give him the ability to use the biological and chemical better. According to German intelligence estimates, we expect him to have three nuclear weapons by 2005. So, the window (actually, he's being careful right now), will close by 2005, and we expect him then to be a lot more aggressive with his neighbors and encouraging terrorism, and using biological weapons. Now he's using them through surrogates like al Qaeda, but we expect he'll use them more aggressively then. There could also be the angle of him using nuclear weapons through surrogates also, if he can achieve it. HAMZA: I think there are several links between Osama and Saddam. The Iraqi ambassador in Turkey, Hajazi, visited Afghanistan, and met with Osama and his associates. He's a powerful figure in Iraq. There are several reported meetings between him and Osama's associates. Osama was sighted in an Iraqi hotel in 1996, by the lawyer for Arkan, the Serbian leader. [Regarding] the reported sighting by the Czech intelligence of Mohammed Atta, and the Iraqi intelligence agent -- to do this meeting, Atta had to drive from Germany and Czechoslovakia, a long drive, meet him, and go back. Which means it was an important meeting for supplies, coordination. It couldn't have been by accident. Many other meetings were reported between Osama associates and Iraqi intelligence. There are reports by Iraqi defectors of bin Laden's people being trained in Iraqi terrorist camps. They are credible stories, because they don't contradict each other. They confirm each other in types of training, places, the people trained. In a covert operation like this, you don't expect much more information. There will be no smoking gun. All sightings confirm a multi-layered coordination between Saddam and bin Laden, in terms of training, support, and supplies. That could have included anthrax. |
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