Here's one no one will see reported by the US media:
guardian.co.uk
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The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the
White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged
close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel
Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and
provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on
Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon
through normal channels," said one source familiar with the
visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority
without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing
relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives
had with Israel's Likud party.
In 1996, he and Richard Perle - now an influential Pentagon
figure - served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin
Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break:
A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said
that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or
destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated
by unnamed senior US officials in the American press,
suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found
in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence
sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli
prime minister. >>> |
