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Furor Erupts Over Recordings of Saddam
NT Sun ^ | February 16, 2006 | ELI LAKE

Posted on 02/16/2006 1:32:20 AM PST by mal

Two former CIA directors have resigned from the board of the organization planning tomorrow to make public secret recordings of Saddam Hussein and his advisers.

In the last week both John Deutch and James Woolsey abruptly left their positions at Intelligence Summit, according to its president, John Loftus, who said their departure is part of a campaign by the directorate of national intelligence to punish him for releasing the recordings.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deutch; iraq; jameswoolsey; johndeutch; loftus; okcbombing; saddam; saddamtapes; wmd; wmds; woolsey
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CNS NEWS.com: "INTELLIGENCE SUMMIT TO AIR 'SADDAM'S WMD TAPES'" by Monisha Bansal (February 15, 2006)

NEWSMAX.com: "SADDAM ON TAPE: TERRORISTS WILL ATTACK D.C." -Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com staff (February 15, 2006)


WorldNetDaily.com: "SADDAM GENERAL: WMDs IN SYRIA Another former confidant of ex-dictator makes claim, also links Iraq to al-Qaida" (February 15, 2006)

MEMRI.org: "SYRIA"


FBI.gov - MOST WANTED TERRORISTS - WANTED POSTER: "IMAD FAYEZ MUGNIYAH" aka "Hajj" (VIEW POSTER; Read More.)

"www.waronline.org/terror/bin%20laden/mugniyah-2.jpg" (VIEW PHOTO. Click Here.)

NYSUN.com: "A MOST-WANTED TERRORIST IS SPOTTED IN SYRIA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One of the American government's most wanted terrorists visited Syria late last week with Iran's President Ahmadinejad, according to a former Reagan administration national security official and Iran watchers on Capitol Hill.")(January 25, 2006) (Read More...) (NOTE: This url may expire.)
"osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000186.html" (Note: re Mugniyah) (Read More...)


JIHAD WATCH.org (IRAN FOCUS): "IRAN'S SUICIDE BOMBERS THREATEN TO 'BURN DOWN' U.S. INTERESTS" (February 13, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Vienna, Austria - "REPORT: IRAN BEGINS URANIUM ENRICHMENT" (February 13, 2006)

TOWNHALL.com: "THE IAEA DIVERSION" -Commentary by Caroline B. Glick (February 11, 2006)

WorldNetDaily.com: "ALMADINEJAD TO IRANIANS: ISRAEL 'WILL BE REMOVED'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The crowd, numbered in the hundreds of thousands accoding to state media, responded to Ahmadinejad's defense of its nuclear program -- believed by U.S. intelligence to be an effort to acquire atomic weapons -- with cries of "Nuclear energy is our undisputable right," "Death to America," "Death of Israel," "Death to Denmark."" (February 11, 2006)
TOWNHALL.com: "AYATOLLAH FIDEL AND IRAN'S CUBAN VACATION" -Commentary by Kathleen Parker (February 10, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE IRAN-CUBA AXIS" by Frederick W. Stakelbeck (January 18, 2006)

OFF-TOPIC.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (TIMESONLINE.co.uk): "BRITISH CAMPUS LINK TO IRANIAN NUCLEAR CENTRE" (February 8, 2006)

MEMRI.org - Special Alert - No. 15: "'Iran is Capable of Conducting a Fission Reaction' -Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary-General Ali Larijani" (February 15, 2006)

MEMRI.org: "IRAN"


FOX NEWS.com (AP): " RICE: SYRIA, IRAN INFLAMED VIOLENCE" (February 8, 2006)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: Beirut - "SYRIA SEEN AS INSTIGATOR" (February 7, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "IRANIAN PAPER PLANS HOLOCAUST CARTOONS" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 8, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (SA via News24.com): "'We swear to God, if we catch one of their citizens in Iraq, we will cut him to pieces, to take revenge for prophet'" (February 6, 2006)

JPOST.com - JERUSALEM POST: "IRANIAN PAPER RUNS HOLOCAUST CONTEST" (Updated February 6, 2006)

21 posted on 02/16/2006 2:45:03 AM PST by Cindy
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To: mal
"PAPER! PAPER! THERE IS NO GOLD! AWRENZ LIED! HE IS NOT PERFECT."
22 posted on 02/16/2006 2:52:57 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: gr8eman
We will be waiting for the mea culpas to start from the left. From Al Gore all the way down the kook food chain!

Any and all evidence proving that Bush et. al. might have been correct, will be ignored. It will be like when all the other women came forward to say Clinton was a sexual predator; Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, etc.

Manufactured evidence, liars, sex was consensual, exaggerated claims, all part of a vast right wing conspiracy.

23 posted on 02/16/2006 3:10:22 AM PST by Joe Miner
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

One of the tapes had Saddams guys saying that they had grossly under reported the amount of biological weapons that they had to the UN. I'm suprised that I heard this on ABC.


24 posted on 02/16/2006 3:42:20 AM PST by xmission
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To: DoughtyOne
Beginning to wonder if all the hysteria over Cheney's accidental shooting is an excuse for NOT covering this story.

Remember the wild hysteria over 'yellow cake' that went on forever?

Suddenly the issue is no long relevant?

25 posted on 02/16/2006 3:58:56 AM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: mal
Don't you worry, Saddam, baby! Hill and Janet went through all those tapes and edited us out...
26 posted on 02/16/2006 3:59:24 AM PST by Bender2 (Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often!)
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To: OldFriend

There's also the Able Danger story- the effort required to ignore that is impressive indeed.

I have a feeling that these two stories may meet somewhere down the road.


27 posted on 02/16/2006 4:00:35 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: xmission
One of the tapes had Saddams guys saying that they had grossly under reported the amount of biological weapons that they had to the UN. I'm suprised that I heard this on ABC.

Yes, I know. Like I said there is probably much there of interest and of use in Saddam's trial but they may not think it is useful to the present direction.

One thing I read a couple of years ago, maybe more, was that one translator at the CIA told the supervisors that another translator was purposely misrpresenting what she was reading or hearing. I never heard that anything was done about that. With the shortage of translators that could easily be an ongoing problem with moles being hired to do intelligence for us.

28 posted on 02/16/2006 4:50:06 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: mal

The games have just began


29 posted on 02/16/2006 4:54:45 AM PST by IrishMike
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To: chuckles
"Isn't there a few red blooded American dudes that can translate these documents and tapes. Surely there are a few around that could be paid $50 an hour to transcribe this crap. We have been waiting for a couple of years now and haven't even scratched the surface."

Don't we have recognition & translation software that could produce a rudimentary understanding of all these documents and tapes in short order?
30 posted on 02/16/2006 5:02:23 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (http://www.busateripens.com)
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To: mal
I'd like to believe these tapes will knock a giant hole in the Rat's argument but, MSM is hurriedly arranging their spin.
31 posted on 02/16/2006 5:03:03 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: mal

Bump for later


32 posted on 02/16/2006 5:03:48 AM PST by upcountry miss
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To: Cindy
I don't know if you saw the initial reports last night. Some creative editing made Saddams admissions tame and nonthreatening.
33 posted on 02/16/2006 5:05:10 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: mal

Has Scott Ritter claimed that these recordings are fraudulent yet?

And have we heard anything on these tapes about pilot Capt. Scott Speicher?


34 posted on 02/16/2006 5:07:32 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
He was on with John Bathcalor last night and it does look interesting/

BTW Loftus is not a Republican.

35 posted on 02/16/2006 5:10:12 AM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: mal

bump


36 posted on 02/16/2006 5:16:35 AM PST by VOA
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To: Straight Vermonter
"Like a mafia don he doesn't come out and say "kill the guy". He merely states that "someday that man will be dead".

Sort of like the king of England - "Who will rid me of this troublesome Priest"

37 posted on 02/16/2006 5:24:28 AM PST by joebuck
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To: chuckles

Ther's a large Iraqui-American comunity, many of whom came here for political asylum before the Liberation. Many of those folks would probably be happy to make $50.00/hr. translating the doucments. I've not read of any sincere and determined effort by the government to recruit them as translators.


38 posted on 02/16/2006 5:30:38 AM PST by libstripper
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To: gr8eman

The left will simply dismiss it as a fabrication by the WH. My UF professor buddy already has. And if it is real then WH translators deliberately mistranslated it.Remember facts, actual events, existing objects, are irrelevant to Liberal Truth which is a term synonymous with the older term "Party Line."


39 posted on 02/16/2006 5:47:55 AM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: ThanhPhero

ABC plays tapes of Saddam Hussien talking about a WMD attack on Washington and what is WRKO's John DePetro talking about? The VEEP had a beer at lunch. FREEP WRKO!


40 posted on 02/16/2006 6:15:06 AM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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