THE COALITION’S LONG-AWAITED IRAQI DOCUMENT DUMP
TKS
jim geraghty reporting
Many bloggers, including The Pajamas Media gang, PowerLine, Protein Wisdom (and that’s just the ‘P’s) are talking about the documents released from Saddam-era Iraq and what they reveal about Saddam’s ties to terror groups and WMD programs. Stephen Hayes is on top of the story, as usual.
(This is the document <linked below> generating the most buzz, which reportedly is from an Iraqi intelligence figure in Afghanistan, claiming that one of his agents spoke with Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahestani who claimed,
“1. That Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and it that previously a group from Taliban and Osama Bin Laden group visited Iraq.
2. That America has proof that the government of Iraq and Osama Bin Laden group have shown cooperation to hit target within America.
3. That in case it is proven the involvement of Osama Bin Laden group and the Taliban in these destructive operations it is possible that American will conduct strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. That the Afghani Consul heard about the subject of Iraq relation with Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran.” Unfortunately, the document has not yet been translated officially. Omar of Iraq the Model offers his translation (link below).)
The US Army Foreign Military Studies Office has created a web site to provide the general public with access to unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I clicked over and picked a translated document of meeting transcript. The discussion holds no smoking guns, but it does illustrate how much Hussein’s regime was focused on keeping the United Nations inspectors in the dark, in ending the inspections and sanctions regime, in having biological, chemical, and nuclear programs ready to go once the sanctions were gone, and getting Russia, China and France to get the U.N. off their backs. (Also, the entire tone of the meeting suggests that the assembled authorities are in some sort of hellish version of “Office Space” – “Yeah, General Amir, if you could get the inspectors out of here by Monday, that would be great… Yeaaaah.”)
At one point, a speaker refers to "five years" of sanctions, suggesting to me this takes place in 1996 or 1997.
<<< SADDAM: Are you talking about the Biological Program or are you talking [rambling] about another subject?
LIEUTENANT GENERAL ‘AMIR: No sir ... sorry, it is not that, if I may say?
SADDAM: Yes.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL ‘AMIR: There are grounds for that, but there are no credible grounds left for the Chemical Program and missiles. However, there are grounds for the Biological Program. Sir … one could be suspicious of it [the Biological Program] if we concentrate on it [UNINTELLIGIBLE] and the trafficking effort and dodging everything in regards to it. Therefore … if one does not have anything or have anything left, for example, one should concentrate on their efforts to achieve results. Now, there is a strong ground for achievement on the subject of the Biological Program. Now, sir, the subject of the Biological Program has become a subject that was adopted by [UNINTELLIGIBLE] I mean I am sorry to say that we are responsible for this subject, I mean, we want to succeed. We have succeeded in a few of the UN paragraphs, we have won Russia, ahhh … we have convinced Russia by way of generous accounts [payoffs] in which, you remember how and why it happened … >>>
Much of the meeting is a long, long report from a speaker identified as "COMRADE HUSAYN." Here are the parts I found particularly interesting:
<<< COMRADE HUSAYN: I think they [it appears he's referring to the U.N. inspectors] have the Chinese information about the missiles, if they want to raise this issue, let them, because as I mentioned, we did not complete it. They have a bigger problem with the Chemical program than the Biological program, a lot bigger than the Biological program. It is not the weapons, the size of the imported material, the size of [UNINTELLIGIBLE] that we presented to them or the size of the stockpile. They knew that not all of this was true. We have not told them that we used it on Iran, nor have we told them about the size or kind of Chemical weapons that we produced, and we have not told them the truth about the imported material. Therefore, sir, if they want to raise an issue, I mean, they will see that our argument is the issue of the Biological program. >>>
Later in Husayn's report:
<<< Again sir, about the Biological and the Chemical programs, we disagree with them but not about the 17 [UNINTELLIGIBLE] Sir, this is the big issue. Some of our teams are working in one direction where another team does not know that they are working above in the same direction. Therefore, they could find it out if they wanted to. The … the reason they know about it is, that we imported a quantity from America and we imported a quantity from Europe. However, we did not come forth with the quantities. Sir, therefore, [UNINTELLIGIBLE] a problem we must pay attention to, that [UNINTELLIGIBLE] have a new relation with agents [representatives] to keep silent? No sir, I disagree. Sir, about the Nuclear program, we say that we have uncovered everything. In addition, we have an unannounced problem with the Nuclear program, and I think they know about it. I mean, there is working teams that are working and some of these teams are not known to anyone. >>>
Husayn sounds particularly ominous here:
<<< Sir, getting back to the subject, are we uncovering everything? If we continue to be silent about the issue at hand, I must say that it is in our best interest not to uncover it, not only in fear of exposing the technology that we have or that we possess or to hide it for future agendas. >>>
Readers who are not fond of the French will probably relate to his comment by Husayn:
<<< Until now, we have not seen the French change one bit ever, not even a hair. To be truthful before your Excellency, I do not trust the French in their current position; maybe this will change after the election. However, in this current situation sir, by God, I think that they are more distant than the Chinese are, even though the Chinese are very far also. They [French] appear in the Security Council with a yes one time and a no another time. Therefore sir, my personal belief is that they are layered [two-faced] and possibly in coordination with America and in coordination with the world. >>>
It's really a shame that the administration hasn't done more to showcase what U.S. intelligence folks have found in these documents.
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