Posted on 03/15/2006 8:37:31 PM PST by jmc1969
The Bush administration Wednesday night released the first declassified documents collected by U.S. intelligence during the Iraq war, showing among other things that Saddam Hussein's regime was monitoring reports that Iraqis and Saudis were heading to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks to fight U.S. troops.
The documents, the first of thousands expected to be declassified over the next several months, were released via a Pentagon Web site at the direction of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
Many were in Arabic – with no English translation – including one the administration said showed that Iraqi intelligence officials suspected al-Qaeda members were inside Iraq in 2002.
The Pentagon Web site described that document this way: "2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaeda Members in Iraq. Correspondence between IRS members on a suspicion, later confirmed, of the presence of an Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Moreover, it includes photos and names."
The release of the documents, expected to continue for months, is designed to allow lawmakers and the public to investigate what documents from Saddam's regime claimed about such controversial issues as weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaeda in the period before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Link to the Doucments about Iraq and Al Qeda.
Link to the Iraq-Al Qeda docs
Oh...I'll be right there....after I learn Arabic...LOL
Yes, I just heard Stephen Hayes on the radio today, and also Pete Hoekstra. They both said there are approximately two million documents. Can you imagine how many man hours to translate that many docs? Yikes.
Seems to me a huge portion of the public has made up it's mind about WMDs and facts won't change that . This won't make any real difference .The MSM wont have to work hard to surpress any of this , the public won't really care at this point . People like us do but to most it's a closed case. Sorry to be so negative but that's what I see.
I told my niece, who is majoring in Political Science in college, two years ago..to take a few courses in Arabic...
She hasn't yet...but, I don't think it would be a bad idea...considering the WOT in the Middle East will continue a long time..and the need to converse with them could be very valuable in Washington DC for a long time.
My friend (and neighbor)recently told her niece the exact same thing. I think she is seriously looking into it.
It would be very smart...
Look at Condi, she majored in Russian History (I think, I know it had to do with Russia)...and now she is the Sec. of State...
Learning different languages would make someone invaluable in Washington and at embassies everywhere.
The press will automatically be in anti-Bush reaction mode and do their damnedest to distort their significance as portrayed by the administration....better to just let the tapes and documents be released and let them stand on their own merits, and when the MSM liars try to distort them....then shoot them down with facts.
Did you look at them?
One of them is a threat to the UAE to quit cooperating with us or else.
Huh, imagine that.
I like the one that mentions how the international media is a powerful tool for aq to propagandize to muslims.
Absolutely. Wish I would have had the foresight way back when. I was too interested in "supporting" starving rock musicians. ;^) If I knew THEN what I know now...
Well, Bush effectively ordered Negoponte to release them, which is why it is finally happened.
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Thank you very much. I just found the link and had not gotten that far. Intresting stuff indeed
Thanks for this post, jmc1969. BTTT
I tend to agree with your conclusions here but you are guaranteed to lose a fight if you surrender before it starts. The truth doesn't change just because people don't want to hear it.
Living in the DC area, I think addition languages would be invaluable when just trying to order at the local McDonald's.
What station were you listening to when you heard that?
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