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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: American Spirit who wrote (96245)4/25/2007 1:39:33 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
Sabri told the CIA that Saddam had stockpiled certain chemical weapons, specifically "poison gas."

From below:

In March 2006, NBC Nightly News reported that Naji Sabri was, indeed, the "source who had direct access to Saddam and his inner circle" of which former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet had once boasted. In April 2006, former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller said in a 60 Minutes interview that a very senior Iraqi official had indeed given the CIA information with regards to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. 60 Minutes verified that the source was Sabri.

For a short time before the 2003 invasion, the CIA maintained 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." 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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