Posted on 02/06/2008 9:32:04 AM PST by mojito
How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction to be hidden, ended up in an Arabic translator's apartment on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn, is clear.
Not likely to be known anytime soon is what, if anything, the army contractor did with the documents.
The U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, which is prosecuting the case, appears to have little direct evidence that Noureddine Malki passed information on to the insurgency, either during his time in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, or upon his return to America in 2005. But it has raised the possibility that he may have done so. The government has said Malki regularly called phone numbers connected to insurgents and took bribes of at least $11,500 from Sunni tribal leaders.
The government, prosecutors wrote in one court filing, could "establish that the defendant had an opportunity to provide stolen classified information to anti-coalition forces."
Yesterday, at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, an Army officer with the 82nd Airborne Division described some of the reports that Malki had obtained. "The information is so critical that you do not want the information to get into the hands of anyone without the need to know," Lieutenant Colonel Michele Bredenkamp said, referring to a mission analysis report for the 82nd Airborne, to which Malki was attached. The document, among other things, described convoy routes and named known terrorists the Army was targeting. Between 60 and 70 individuals had authorization to view the document, which could be accessed through a secure computer, Colonel Bredenkamp testified.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Why aren’t these people just being eliminated?
After reading the article, what was going on doesn’t sound too mysterious to me.
FYI Ping!
But but but Saddam didn’t have any WMD so this means nothing. < /s >
FYI
Then try, convict, and hang him.
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I saw this one earlier, it is very scary that these documents ended up being in the hands of a terrorist sympathizer.
May I deny all liberals?
He must have been working for the New York Times.
nonsense! we all know there were no WMD’s. /tu
fortunately our linguist is a national guard soldier, a Lebanonese christian. I have had quite a few discussions with him in past 2 weeks since I have met him, he is on the right side.
Well that sure straightened this Moroccan out!
Then what the hell is he doing in possession of that material, and (it's been awhile since I read the article)why did he give it to others?
I think Liberty may be referring to someone other than the person in the article.
But...but...we all know that Chimpy McHitlerburton was lying about Iraq having WMDs! Michael Moore told us so!
Cheers!
Where do tehse folks come from?
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