jveritas, thanks for translating this and posting it. Please ping me whenever you translate any of these important documents. You might want to send Mr Hayes a copy.
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Mark
And so it begins....
thanks jv.
this is incredible information.
a relationship between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden prior to 9/11/2001, and that the United States was aware of such a relationship
If this is so, why in the world have we been keeping it under wraps while the President takes a daily beating? Strategery????
Wow, unlike the Saddam tapes, this story is actually starting to poke it's head out. Here is one of many examples of where it's popped up so far this morning (CBS):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/16/terror/main1409920.shtml
Waiting for it on the Yahoo home page. Wait for it...wait for it...
And the administration of President Bush went on to keep such awareness from the American public and the United Nations, even during justification of waging war against Iraq.
Thank you for your translation work. This is a very important document.
You need to be sure you download the original document.
Things have been known to disappear shortly after they are brought to attention.
God bless our troops.
The president needs to go on national television and give a fireside chat, not a new conference, in which he details the evidence. He needs to sink the RATS now before it is too late. If they take the House, we are going to have impeachment hearings. Those b*st*rds do no care if it hurts the country.
BTTT
WASHINGTON, D.C.-March 16, 2006 - Iraqi documents collected by U.S. intelligence during the Iraq war and released by the Bush administration show Saddam Hussein's regime was investigating "rumors" that 3,000 Iraqis and Saudis had traveled unofficially 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 late Wednesday 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-Qaida members were inside Iraq in 2002.
The Pentagon Web site described that document this way: "2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida 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."
However, one of the documents translated by The Associated Press, a letter from an Iraqi intelligence official, dated Aug. 17, 2002, asked agents in the country to be on the lookout for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and another unnamed man whose picture was attached.
The letter said there were reports the two could be in Iraq and directed Iraqi security officials to be on the alert as a matter of "top priority."
Attached were three responses in which agents said there was no evidence al-Zarqawi or the other man were in Iraq.
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 said about such controversial issues as weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida in the period before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003.
The Web site cautioned that the U.S. government "has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available."
A handful of prewar Iraq government documents released Wednesday had been translated into English.
They included one Iraqi intelligence document indicating Saddam's feared Fedayeen paramilitary forces were investigating rumors in the fall of 2001 that as many as 3,000 Iraqis and Saudis were going to fight in Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion.
"In the report on the status of rumors for November of 2001 regarding Fedayeen Saddam in al-Anbar, there is an entry that indicates that there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin (mujahedeen, or holy warriors) to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack," the translated document stated.
"After presenting the matter to the Supervisor of Fedayeen Saddam, he ordered that the matter should be looked into for verification of the truth of the rumor," the translation said.
House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., requested the release of millions pages of documents and audio recordings captured during current and previous U.S. military operations in Iraq. Most have sat untranslated for years.
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Great work jveritas. I have a feeling that only FR and the blogosphere is going to be able to fully evaluate and show the signifigance of these documents.
A quick glance this morning from the Dinosaur Media showed them already highlighting that the docs have not been authenticated. They also highlighted one document making it sound like Saddam was worried about his citizens fighting in the War in Afghanistan. I'm surrrrreeeeee he was worried about his citizens getting involved in terrorism related activities... (sarcasm off).
SMOKING GUN ALERT! Way to go jveritas. This is one for the books. Outstanding!
bttt
If there are more Freepers out there who can translate Arabic it would be great to see some of these other documents translated.
Have you offered FMSO a copy of your translation so they can post it for a larger audience?