Guess you're not interested in what Naji Sabri had to say to the CIA when he was recruited as one of their sources:
For a short time before the 2003 invasion, the CIA had French-sponsored, third-party contact with Sabri. In exchange for $100,000, Sabri offered the agency important details on some of Saddam's alleged weapons programs and assurances on the discontinuance of others. Sabri told the CIA that Saddam had stockpiled certain chemical weapons, specifically "poison gas." Newly declassified reports indicate that Saddam had if fact possessed those same weapons of mass destruction. In the lead-up to the invasion, the CIA pressured Sabri to defect to the United States, but Sabri declined. Communication between Sabri and the agency ceased thereafter.
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Tyler Drumheller is the former chief of the CIA covert operations in Europe, who has said that the CIA had credible sources discounting weapons of mass destruction claims before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He received and discounted documents central to the Niger yellowcake forgery prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has also stated that senior White House officials dismissed intelligence information from his agency which reported Saddam Hussein had no WMD program.
According to Drumheller, the CIA, with the help of a friendly intelligence service, recruited Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in Europe during the late summer of 2002. [1] Sabri told the CIA in September that Saddam had no major active weapons of mass destruction programs; they had no fissile material and biological weapons were almost non-existent, although he claimed that there were chemical weapons. This information was then transmitted to the White House, but it was ignored in favor of the information coming from a source known as Curveball.
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And while everyone was focused upon what Sabri said about Saddam not having any current nuclear program, HE ALSO STATED that Saddam had stockpiled 500 metric tonnes of chemical weapons:
On the issue of chemical weapons, the CIA said Saddam had stockpiled as much as "500 metric tons of chemical warfare agents" and had "renewed" production of deadly agents. Sabri said Iraq had stockpiled weapons and had "poison gas" left over from the first Gulf War. Both Sabri and the agency were wrong.
Now Naji Sabri was RIGHT INSIDE of Saddam's inner circle with the kind of placement and access that most spy handlers only dream of.
Now if he was right about no nuclear program, why was he wrong about the 500 tonnes of chemical weapons?
No, Libya has BEEN NEGOTIATING for a decade in order to get oil companies to come back. NE-GO-TI-A-TING. I suspect it wouldn't stop collecting negotiation tools in order to strengthen its position. Ditto NK. Ditto Iran.
And that's why they decided to import a ship full of nuclear centrifuges and full instructions on how to set up an enrichment program??
Sure they wanted to "negotiate" for renewed oil contacts.. Because they needed the technology and so long as they were on the list of terrorist states they couldn't get them from the US.
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