The Proliferation Dodge--The shocking facts revealed by Saddam's untranslated documents.

Jerusalem Post ^ | November 20, 2007 | Caroline Glick

[Bitsy]

Good plan. Let’s see what we can “unearth”.
I’m in.

[BlueDragon]

Has anyone seen these enormous underwater warehouses?

I'm wondering the same...

But wouldn't it be easier to have some Iraqi tell us where the entrances were/are? That is, if there actually were underwater "warehouses".

Otherwise;
Off-the-shelf marine depth sounders, sonar, and plotters, (or a PC runnning a plotting program --- there are quite few to choose from) could be rigged up, and searches made for anomalies, which could then be investigated in greater detail.
I don't know how far North the Euphrates is navigatable, though a very shallow draft boat would suffice, as long as it could carry some limited equipment, including a genset. Which leads me to think that one could go quite a ways. Besides, if access was not from the bank of the river, but instead, simply straight down somewhwere near the middle of the river, then the depth would need to float a fairly good sized barge, I'd guess.

We wouldn't have to send Clive Cussler's boys to do it, either. I'd do it for pretty cheap, as long as it was all contracted "cost plus"!

[secretagent]

Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. His report was based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. These were the unread Arabic language documents that U.S. forces seized, but had not managed to translate after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Are the documents public? Link?

If we have have to just take the word of someone, watch out for "Curveball - Part II".

[SJackson]

jveritas can provide more info. Some translations are public, some are on FR, but less than 5% are translated. It’s my understanding that far more than 5% are public, but in Arabic.

[jveritas]

The Saddam regime documents were published on a Pentagon website (FMSO, Foreign Intelligence Study Office) from March to November 2006 before the government decided to shut it down. There were a least 2 millions captured documents but less than 5% of these documents were published on the website before it was shut down. Even a much smaller percentage of these documents was actually translated.

[airborne]

Another article, maybe the US press will report the story one day.

LOL! Maybe, as part of a historical documentary, decades from now.

[Kevmo]

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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo

[dynoman]

“Has anyone seen these enormous underwater warehouses? Where along the Euphrates were they located? If they exist, why haven’t there been pictures or film of them?”

Count me a skeptic too, if this were true why is this the first time these underwater warehouses have ever been mentioned?

Surely someone here would have heard of this before now.

[expatpat]

I hope Olmert is only putting out disinformation. If his statement is sincere, then Israel is in mortal danger.

[billmor]

Well, it’s about time...That is exactly what is described in the following Book by authors Hamza and Stein...Hamza was one of the very top scientists and he said there was a huge underground facility under where the work on developing a nuke went on, at one time over 10,000 people worked on the project. The top scientists were hand-picked by Hussein and were tightly controlled by him..

“Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda” (Hardcover)
by Khidhir Hamza (Author), Jeff Stein (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Saddams-Bombmaker-Terrifying-Nuclear-Biological/dp/B000H2M4FA/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195612913&sr=1-8

[billmor]

5 to 6 April 2003
It is alleged that during the night of 5 to 6 April 2003, Saddam Hussein’s entire chemical weapons arsenal, which reportedly includes hundreds of artillery rockets for truck mounted Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), travels from Tikrit in Iraq to eastern Syria. Reportedly the weapons are subsequently stored near the town of Kamishli (Al-Qamishli), a town on the Syria - Turkey border.
[This report has been included for completeness but should be treated as of uncertain value pending more substantial confirmation.]
—Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War (New York: Regan Books, 2004), pp. 232 and 438.

http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Syria/Chemical/2976_5044.html

[Bigg Red]

Your scenario sent chills up my spine. I pray to God you are not correct.