Posted on 03/26/2006 6:42:20 PM PST by jveritas
In this Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7 2001, there was a discussion in upper echelon of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves as the results massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm Operation. What is also interesting about this document is that it mentions how to give the priority of covering the story to CNN so it will have an effect on the international arena as the documents says.
I did a partial translation of the document highlight the statement related to CNN in bold letters in the body of the translation. The rest of this 3 pages document that I did not translate will go into further deception on how to make big military funerals for the people in the mass graves though out all the Iraq provinces and how high level state officials will participate in these funerals.
Beginning of the Partial Translation
The Republic of Iraq
The Intelligence Apparatus
Date: 7/2/2001
No 1687
In the Name of God the Merciful the Most Compassionate
Secret
To the respectful Mr. Director of the Fourth Directory
Your letter secret and immediate numbered B 264 on 2/4/2001
1. No information is available to us about the Mass Graves in the Southern Region.
2.We see to achieve the observation the following matters:
A. Inspect the graves to confirm the existence of Nuclear Radiations.
B. Were they buried alive or their death was by suffocation.
C. Are they military personnel or civilians.
D. Are there tombstones that carry the names of the martyrs
E. Identify accurate marks and proofs of the graves and the possibility to reach it quickly and identify it.
3. We do not agree that the declaration about it through a direct Iraqi media in the first stage at least and not to cause public and party reaction so that the subject will take as a priority an international interest, and we should work on the following direction during this stage:
A. Leak the news through reliable sources.. News agencies or Satellite stations.. and that there is confusion, and indications from the members of the Coalition forces about the existence of mass graves civilians and military personnel in the South of Iraq.
B. The attempt to search for soldiers from the Coalition forces in a serious way to mention these truth through the agencies.
(1-3)
C. Ask some of the friendly countries with good technology to find these graves and for sure it will be asked from some news agencies in these countries to humanly participate in this effort and in case it is discovered there will be media reactions internationally and foreign and this media must be given a big space to repeat it and leak it to take its natural form of influence on the countries that made this bad deed and give it to the international general opinion.
D. Not to dig these grave by the Iraqi side… and it is possible to make a dialogue with the CNN channel to give them a priority on this subject to have an influence over the international arena and it will be accepted more than the Iraqi media.
End of Partial Translation
CNN was at least holding out for "exclusives"...Dan Rather was a traitor for free.
Yeah even Saadam knew that a Rick Kaplan-run CNN network would literally saliva over a chance (even a faked one) to make Saddam look like a hero and the US out to be a Villian.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003336
CNN's Access of Evil - The network of record covered Saddam's repression with propaganda.
Eason Jordan
Hopefully, Rush and others will provide this information to millions of listeners this week.
Wow. This is really an eye opener and a confirmation at the same time. Thanks for the hard work. Wish we could do more to help!
Thank you for your effort in exposing the left media as being in good with America's enemy.
Our old pal Ramsey Clark is the one that set up Rather's interview with Saddam.
I read this document and it appears to be from an intelligence officer wehre he state that Abu Zubaida in his prison talked to interrogator about Al Qaeda attempt to deliver nuclear weapon and deliver it to the US. The Iraqi reporting is reproting this from a report by CBS network according to the document.
Thanks very much for the summary.
If you have a ping list, could you please put me on it for your posts about the Iraqi documents. Thanks.
(Or if you don't have a ping list, you may consider starting one, I am sure a lot of people would love to be on it, so as not to miss the news that can only be found here on FR, translated by you.)
unbelievable...they won't post things because it'll put, as Jorad said, "Iraqi's lives in danger" yet they don't think twice about posting info which help the terrorists kills Americans...
Dude.... you rock.
Interesting.
Be sure you report this in full ..
Hey Telegraph....that means you.....we know you are following these posts.
I read this document and it appears to be from an intelligence officer wehre he states that Abu Zubaida in his prison talked to interrogators about Al Qaeda attempt to make nuclear weapon and deliver it to the US. The Iraqi reporting is reproting this from a report by CBS network according to the document.
That is correct.
BTW, have you seen any of the boxes of documents found at Salman Pak when Ollie North and the Marines rolled through there?
The truth rocks :)
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