Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, and Search Is On [FR's jveritas makes the news]

NY Times ^ | March 28, 2006 | SCOTT SHANE

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603696/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603039/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602985/posts

[bill1952]

Mr. Shahda said he was proud he could help make the documents public. "I live in this great country, and it's a time of war," he said. "This is the least I can do."

Don't we wish the liberal trash in this country felt the same way?

What happened that they became so rabidly anti American that I cannot say 'liberal' without saying 'liberal trash?'

Thank you Joe.

[Right Wing Assault]

second guessing

Second guessing? Who's guessing here? Maybe the NYT?

[dinasour]

The girly-man CIA as been at war against the administration for some time.

Bush knows that they are dragging thier feet on these documents because they don't want to find anything that might support the administration.

So, you could call this document dump: The Empire Leaks Back.

[GRRRRR]

Of course, it NEVER occurred to the NYSlimes to start translations of the docs on their own...FReepers, doing the jobs the LameStream Media won't do...

[Peach]

We made the NYT.

[dennisw]

US puts Iraqi documents on the Web
Goal is to speed up translation of files
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | March 18, 2006

Joseph Shahda of Randolph earns his living as an engineer. But in his spare time, he's an intelligence agent, working to ferret out the truth about the regime of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

When the US government on Thursday began publishing captured Iraqi government documents on the Internet, Shahda eagerly began to translate the files into English and publish them on a conservative website.

''I feel a sense of duty," said Shahda, a native of Lebanon who supports President Bush's decision to invade Iraq. ''I think it's a duty for people who know Arabic to translate the documents."

Still, conservative bloggers, eager to bolster the case for going to war against Iraq, have long argued for release of the documents. They gained a powerful ally last month in Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In an interview with blogger Andrew Marcus, Hoekstra called for Negroponte to release the documents online. ''Unleash the power of the Net," Hoekstra said. ''Let the blogosphere go." Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed Hoekstra's proposal.

Within hours of the first release of documents, Shahda posted his first translation on the conservative website Free Republic. It was an Iraqi intelligence report of an interview with an Afghan informant that suggests -- but does not prove -- agents of Al Qaeda and the Taliban were active in Iraq before the Sept. 11 attacks.

[Peach]

This is a better link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/politics/28intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[ballplayer]

I thought all the intelligence agencies said Sadam had weapons of mass destuction before he didnt have weapons of mass destruction! Which do we believe ? I guess it depends on which day of the week it is when we decide if we believe the intelligence agencies

[Shqipo]

>>>On his blog last week, Ray Robison, a former Army officer from Alabama, quoted a document reporting a supposed scheme to put anthrax into American leaflets dropped in Iraq and declared: "Saddam's W.M.D. and terrorist connections all proven in one document!!!"<<<<

--Instead of a sardonic triple exclamation point, you think the NYT might actually translate the one document itself and report on what it says to the contrary.

[sausageseller]

Joseph G. Shahda, One Great American!

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post, ping, and link and a huge thanks to Joseph G. Shahda!

[shezza]

All the documents ... have received at least a quick review by Arabic linguists

"Nothing. Nothing. Nope. No. (yawn) Nope. Nope. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. What time is it?"
"3:22."
"(Sigh.) Nothing. Nothing. Nope. Seen it. Seen it. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. No. No. Nothing. Nope. No. Nuh-uh. Nothing. Nothing. Nope. Nothing. What time is it now?"
"Still 3:22."
"(Sigh.)"

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I don't like the way this guy's name is being published.

I was wondering just how they *got* his name.

[FreedomPoster]

Boy, the Times really gives a lot of ink to the "there's nothing in all that stuff to be found" argument, and early on in the article, then buries the private translations material at the end. So in their minds, they've reported it "fairly".

From the article:

"There's no quality control," said Michael Scheuer, a former Central Intelligence Agency specialist on terrorism. "You'll have guys out there with a smattering of Arabic drawing all kinds of crazy conclusions. Rush Limbaugh will cherry-pick from the right, and Al Franken will cherry-pick from the left."

jveritas, how do you like being described as having "a smattering of Arabic"?

Saying what I think about the Time here would get me suspended at least.

[Peach]

Before this is over, the NYT will look like the biased fools they are. Those documents are providing a virtual tsunami of information and the leftists will be exposed as liars.

[codercpc]

On some tapes already released, in fact, Mr. Hussein expressed frustration that he did not have unconventional weapons.

So According to the Great NY Times = When Mr. Hussein says he doesn't have weapons; we must believe him.....

When Mr. Hussein says he has weapons, it's just right wing bloggers and writers; so don't believe him?

And what the h*ll is with the MR? He doesn't deserve the respect.

If I am correct, the only story before today that they reported on was the one in which Hussein says he doesn't have the weapons. And they wonder why we no longer believe in the MSM.

[genefromjersey]

I had to chuckle when I read the Times story this morning: all sniffy and "How dare they ?"

[PigRigger]

Joseph G. Shahda, One Great American!...

Tip of the hat to Mr. Shahda...Bravo.....

[tiredoflaundry]

Great job! Thank You.