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A link to last weeks expose by Bill Gertz re the French Frogs providing Pass ports to the top Iraqi Criminals.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/906846/posts

France helped Iraqis escape
Washington Times ^ | 6 May 2003 | Bill Gertz


Posted on 05/06/2003 7:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave


France helped Iraqis escape Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published May 6, 2003




The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The Washington Times has learned.

An unknown number of Iraqis who worked for Saddam Hussein's government were given passports by French officials in Syria, U.S. intelligence officials said.

The passports are regarded as documents of the European Union, because of France's membership in the union, and have helped the Iraqis avoid capture, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.

The French support, which was revealed through sensitive intelligence-gathering means, angered Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials in Washington because it undermined the search for senior aides to Saddam, who fled Iraq in large numbers after the fall of Baghdad on April 9.

"It made it very difficult to track these people," one official said.

A second Bush administration official said, "It's like Raoul Wallenberg in reverse," a reference to the Swedish diplomat who supplied travel documents to help Jews escape Nazi Germany in World War II. "Now you have the French helping the bad guys escape from us."

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10 posted on 05/10/2003 4:54:52 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
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"Damascus shall no longer be called a city. It shall be a ruinous heap." Mekhtoub!(It is written)
16 posted on 05/10/2003 5:59:37 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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