Posted on 04/10/2006 4:37:42 PM PDT by kellynla
In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy AgencyIraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effectwas a man named Wissam al-Zahawie. After the Kuwait war in 1991, when Rolf Ekeus arrived in Baghdad to begin the inspection and disarmament work of UNSCOM, he was greeted by Zahawie, who told him in a bitter manner that "now that you have come to take away our assets," the two men could no longer be friends. (They had known each other in earlier incarnations at the United Nations in New York.)
At a later 1995 U.N. special session on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Zahawie was the Iraqi delegate and spoke heatedly about the urgent need to counterbalance Israel's nuclear capacity. At the time, most democratic countries did not have full diplomatic relations with Saddam's regime, and there were few fully accredited Iraqi ambassadors overseas, Iraq's interests often being represented by the genocidal Islamist government of Sudan (incidentally, yet another example of collusion between "secular" Baathists and the fundamentalists who were sheltering Osama Bin Laden). There was one exceptionan Iraqi "window" into the world of open diplomacynamely the mutual recognition between the Baathist regime and the Vatican. To this very important and sensitive post in Rome, Zahawie was appointed in 1997, holding the job of Saddam's ambassador to the Holy See until 2000. Those who knew him at that time remember a man much given to anti-Jewish tirades, with a standing ticket for Wagner performances at Bayreuth. (Actually, as a fan of Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung in particular, I find I can live with this. Hitler secretly preferred sickly kitsch like Franz Lehar.)
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
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What did Joe know? And when did he know it?
Chris Hitchens used to get his kicks exposing the dark underbelly of the Nixon/Kissinger foreign policy moves.
I like him better now, exposing the dark underbelly of the saddam/terrorism/jihadist/UN-oil-for-food-scandal foreign policy moves.
Those of us who get to listen to John Batchelor Show heard it over a year ago from John Loftus.
"What did Joe know? And when did he know it?"
irrelevant...
anyone who didn't know Saddam Hussein had WMD was not paying attention when he used them on the Kurds and the Iranians.
PLUS
Saddam's WMD
have been found
New evidence unveils chemical, biological, nuclear, ballistic arms
The French control the uranium mining in Niger.
Cindy Sheehan! Dumb...???
Naaaaaaah.
plus
WMDs Found in Iraq Posted Nov 9, 2005
Contrary to ongoing reports by mainstream media outlets, WMDs have been found in Iraq, so reports New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter in his new book, Disinformation.
Consider these shocking facts:
Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
Found: 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons
Found: Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas
Found: 1,000 radioactive materials--ideal for radioactive dirty bombs
Found: 17 chemical warheads--some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1519227/posts
In the speech, he argued against intervening in Iraq because:
1. Saddam had WMD.
2. And he would use them.
Subsequently, Wilson repeated this argument in an op-ed for the San Jose Mercury-News.
Somehow, the left and the entire MSM have ignored Joe's history...
As far as I'm concerned, Joe Wilson has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine. LOL
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Whatever Wilson was doing in Niger, he probably wasn't looking for evidence of Iraqi uranium deals. He went twice and found nothing.
Wasnt there something about 16 words?
Joe Wilson knew all this. He just lied his treasonous ass off to get Bush into trouble.
The big question I have is why did Bush apologize for the 16 words? They were all true--always have been true. When he came out and apologized for making a true statement, he ceded this issue to the anti-American lefties. Talk about stepping on your own crank. If there's grounds for impeachment, it for being stupid enough to apologize for speaking the truth!
A very useful, interesting article.
Of course
those of us who listen to the John Batchelor show
knew most of this months ago.
Oh yes he did.......HE was the one who briefed the CIA Chief when he returned from his TRIP.
After giving his report to the CIA he then turned around and LIED to the NY TIMES and the entire MSM about the mission.
There is something VERY WRONG with our intelligence system and the laws that govern it, when an emissary [Joe Wilson] can tell the CIA Director ONE thing and the MSM another.
Not only does he get BY WITH IT LEGALLY but the MSM gets to LIE about it for YEARS with no ramifications whatsoever for either party!!
Seen this yet?
There is absolutely not a doubt in my mind that Bush knows. Behind the scenes, people are already paying dearly. And I suspect there is plenty more to come. The scumbag Democrats have been well aware of this from the beginning - - and it is why they were so utterly desperate to win in '04. But they lost, big time.
Trust Bush. He and Rove are well aware that polls and approval ratings are meaningless in April. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and six months is an eternity in politics, let alone nearly three more years.
when? at some point, if you wait too long to release the truth - no one is willing to listen except people like us - who ALREADY know the truth.
Several analysts interviewed by Committee staff also pointed out that information in the second intelligence report matched [rest of line and beginning of next line deleted] reporting fiom 1999 which showed that an Algerian businessman, Baraka, was arranging a trip for the Iraqi Ambassador to the Vatican, Wissam al-Zahami, to visit Niger and other African countries in early Feburary 1999 [remainder of line and next 3 lines deleted]..
SNIP
The former ambassador had travelled previously to Niger on the CIA's behalf [end of line, next line, and beginning of second-next line deleted]. The former ambassador was selected for the 1999 trip after his wife mentioned to her supervisors that her husband was planning a business trip to Niger in the near future and might be willing to use his contacts in the region [half line deleted]. Because the former ambassador did not uncover any information about [one word deleted] during this visit to Niger, CPD did not distribute an intelligencereport on the visit.
This is interesting to relate to reports such as these:
Intelligence backs claim Iraq tried to buy uranium
Intelligence officers learned between 1999 and 2001 that uranium smugglers planned to sell illicitly mined Nigerien uranium ore, or refined ore called yellow cake, to Iran, Libya, China, North Korea and Iraq.
Iraqi WMD Debate and Intelligence: the Links to Libya
On November 8, 2000, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily noted:
The Libyan acquisition of NoDong-1 SSMs is the result of a joint Egyptian-Iraqi-Libyan crash program to overcome delays in production of indigenous SSMs. Initially, the Egyptians and the Iraqis wanted to expedite the production of their own missile in Libya. Cairo arranged for Tripoli to provide cover for the revival of the Badr/Condor program which could no longer take place in Iraq and now also not in Egypt because of the exposure by the US of the North Korean (DPRK) rôle and a consequent US pressure to stop the program. Therefore, the Libyans initiated their relations with the DPRK on behalf of Cairo and Baghdad.
That report, by GIS Senior Editor Yossef Bodansky, and based on known and reliable intelligence sources, continued:
... [I]n the late Summer of 1999, Cairo and Baghdad urged Tripoli to purchase North Korean NoDong-1 SSMs on their behalf with the idea that Libya would keep a few of them for its own use. At the behest of Pres. Mubarak and Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein, Col. Qadhafi instructed General Abu-Bakr Jabir, the Libyan Defense Minister and Army Chief of Staff who also holds overall responsibility for the Libyan missile program to personally devise a more direct way to acquire these missiles. Desperate for hard currency, Pyongyang expressed willingness to deliver numerous NoDong-1 SSMs the moment hard currency was delivered in a safe laundered method. A North Korean delegation arrived in Tripoli to discuss the operational requirements and, in October 1999, General Abu-Bakr Jabir signed a deal with them for the supply of NoDong-1s and related technological expertise. In the Tripoli negotiations, the Libyans stressed the imperative to have the missiles deployed operationally immediately after their arrival in Libya.
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