Bush administration releases secret documents from Saddam's spy ag

[Riverwind]

I'm sorry but I do not see anything on Page 61 to back your claims. You should read the report more closely before making such claims.

The quote I gave you is pretty clear and unambiguous yet you continue to deny reality. The report says that Bin Ladin attempted to get Saddam's help but there was no evidence that happened.

However, there is lots of evidence that Sudan was heavily involved yet the Bush regime does nothing about Sudan. Talk about incompetence.

[newbie]

Newbie, don't click this link. I don't want you to go blind!

Captured documents in Iraq show Saddam Hussein provided financial support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s

I don't read conservative rags Monty. I read responsible and impartial journalism. Nice try tho.

[geoffrey]

Newbie, don't click this link. I don't want you to go blind!

Captured documents in Iraq show Saddam Hussein provided financial support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s

I don't read conservative rags Monty. I read responsible and impartial journalism. Nice try tho.

Why bother reading anything other than your viewpoint?

I mean, it might cause you to think, which would be dangerous.

[newbie]

No, I accept things that can be cooberated from a multitude of sources. These documents cannot.

[Black Dog]

Hmmm...interesting that the Bush administration is releasing these documents to credulours right-wing bloggers. Must be because the monolithic hive mind of the left-wing MSM (unlike the courageou, agenda-free right-wing MSM) has declared jihad on the Truth which only a select few know.

What stunning new developments are there? Zarqawi was in Iraq? No shit (he had a training camp in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq which the Bush administration refused to target prior to the war). Saddam knew it as well, which why the documents include an order directing Zarqawi be apprehended (hence the wanted poster-style photo). Or how about this:

Most intriguing from a document dump Wednesday night is a manual for Saddam's spy service, innocuously listed as CMPC-2003-006430. It makes for interesting reading.

It probably did, when it was first posted on the Fedaration of American Scientists' web site here... in 1997.

Nice detective work there, dum dums.

This is all straight up conspiracy stuff kids.

Check this out: of conspircay theories. Pay close attention to the five characteristics of consopircay theories and note how teh resemblence MB and Shady's desperate attempts to connect the dots bear to them. Then take a look at these 10 characteristics of conspiracy theorists and note how it reads like a psych evaluation of our own Mr. Burns. In short: these people are kooks. There's no collusion among the "MSM" to keep the truth down: just feeble attempts by partisan elements on the right to create a picture to justify their own bad policy.

Ciao babies.

[Shady]

Hmmm...interesting that the Bush administration is releasing these documents to credulours right-wing bloggers

Yeah, ABC News is a real right-wing blogger, eh?

[GostHacked]

Newbie, don't click this link. I don't want you to go blind!

Captured documents in Iraq show Saddam Hussein provided financial support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s

I don't read conservative rags Monty. I read responsible and impartial journalism. Nice try tho.

Why bother reading anything other than your viewpoint?

I mean, it might cause you to think, which would be dangerous.

I am reading it right now, and it looks like they did not want the Americans knowing about their ties

The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.

and

An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad,

HOWEVER

The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq.

Did they find them in Iraq or Afghanistan?

According to this source, the documents had been examined by the U.S. intelligence community and judged "consistent with authentic documents"--the professionals' way of saying that these items cannot definitively be certified but seem to be the real thing.

So again, no real solid evidence.

The third, a September 15, 2001, report from an Iraqi Intelligence source in Afghanistan, contains speculation about the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda and the likely U.S. response to it.

The only attacks I see mentioned in this article are those of what happened in the Phillipenes.

Interesting article indeed. Sheds some light on the right's side. But even the FBI is admitting that the intelligence is speculative at best.

Looks like the dots that the right connect arre more valuble that the dot connecting of those from the left.

[Black Dog]

Bump!

Bush administration yanks Iraq document website

Why? Oh, nothing big:

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

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The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.

[Liam]

The only question now is why Republicans hate America. I mean, isn't that what the question would be if Democrats posted this information (particularly when it was done for political purposes)? It's heartwarming to see that the GOP is now in the business of aiding and abetting terrorists in their quest for WMD. :angry: