[neverdem]

fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm

[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

[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!

[genefromjersey]

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

[tiredoflaundry]

Great job! Thank You.

[A message]

We are blessed.

Thank You

Sincerely

[airborne]

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

Are those the ones the MSM (intentionally?) translated wrong?

[jveritas]

Thank you very much my fellow freepers, just doing my little duty.

[Taliesan]

I guess it remains to us amateurs to point out THE salient fact the NY times couldn't rouse itself toward: "American intelligence agencies and presidential commissions" have not read these documents.

So any conclusions from these documents would, in point of fact, not be 'second-guessing" the government, but correcting it.

By the way, one of the MSM's dirty little propoganda techniques is on display in this article: when a conclusion has been reached by some government entity and they LIKE that conclusion, they cite "the government". Let the same government entity reach a conclusion they DON'T LIKE, and they will cite it is "the Bush Administration".

[blam]

This from The Telegraph (UK) three days ago:

Saddam Planned Top Deploy 'Camels Of Mass Destruction' (Free Republic Mention)

More work of FReeper jveritas.

[Alexander Rubin]

Thanks from Canada, buddy. ;)

[jan in Colorado]

You don't want to miss this PING!

Thank you for all you are doing, jveritas, to expose the TRUTH!

Many on this thread are still using the term MSM. I think we can all agree that there is NOTHING Main Stream about them or their coverage.

The ENEMEDIA is being exposed!

[Wiz]

ping

[eureka!]

Joseph-Congrats, I think. Thanks for all you do.

That said, this article shows the Clymers at the Slimes read FR, and, in particular, your work on the prewar docs. They do not, however, report that which is said in them. No surprise there, eh?....

[RugerM77]

From the article>>>"All the documents, which are available on fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm, have received at least a quick review by Arabic linguists and do not alter the government's official stance,"<<<<<

Does a "Quick review" count as intelligence analysis at the NYT? One would think that a true study would require extensive cross-comparisons and collations and so forth between documents, looking for patterns and stuff that may be missed by a quick review.

That appears to be happening now.

[GOPJ]

"I'm trying to pick up documents that shed light on the political debate," said Joseph G. Shahda, 34, a Lebanese-born engineer who lives in a Boston suburb and is spending hours every evening on translations for the conservative Free Republic site. "I think we prematurely concluded there was no W.M.D. and no ties to Al Qaeda." 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."

Thank you freeper Shahda -- whoever you are... ( anyone know?)