Intelligence team finds French passports in Iraq

Washington Times ^ | 5/24/03 | Bill Gertz

[Mark Felton]

A U.S. military intelligence team in Iraq has uncovered a dozen French passports, and defense officials believe other French passports from the same batch were used by Iraqis to flee the country.

Defense officials are still investigating whether the passports were provided covertly by the French government, or were stolen or forged by Saddam Hussein's regime, said defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

[McGavin999]

Thanks Mark, I was waiting for this to be posted.

[Dog]

Frogs caught redhanded..

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !

[Catspaw]

The Froggies are going to say we're lying. It's a given, you know.

[MeekOneGOP]

Edited by MnM:

"And if embassies are looted, blank passports would be a great commodity in the right hands," the official said. "The French had a lot of business interests in Iraq through the [U.N.] oil-for-food Palaces program."

[MeekOneGOP]

Intelligence team finds French passports in Iraq

Excerpt

    The official said the passports themselves do not mean that France provided the documents and that the passports may have been looted from the French Embassy.

    "And if embassies are looted, blank passports would be a great commodity in the right hands," the official said. "The French had a lot of business interests in Iraq through the [U.N.] oil-for-food program."

    According to numerous U.S. press accounts from Iraq, however, the French Embassy in Baghdad was not looted.

    The French Embassy was protected by armed guards and barbed wire in the days after the fall of Baghdad to coalition forces.

    A French cultural center in Baghdad was sacked by looters, but officials said it is unlikely that the center had blank passports.

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[MeekOneGOP]

See Zee monkey

French Military Victories

Spot the Difference

Separated at birth/one and the same?

[rmvh]

[Drango]

A French cultural center in Baghdad was sacked by looters, but officials said it is unlikely that the center had blank passports.

The looters were disgusted to only find a large amount of white flags...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And several months' supply of stinky cheese.

[BOBTHENAILER]

"The French had a lot of business interests in Iraq through the [U.N.] oil-for-food Palaces program."

Thanks for the link. According to the defense officials, the French passports found in Iraq were obtained by U.S. military teams in the country within the past several weeks.

Just for grins, I thought I'd high-lite the pertinent part of the quote. The "stealth" admin keeps stacking up the evidence for later use. It's just way too cool.

[prairiebreeze]

Frogs are saying the documents are counterfeited, according to FNC

Prairie

[MeekOneGOP]

The looters were disgusted to only find a large amount of white flags...

LOL! You mean like the one in the first link on post #8 ?? hehe !

[DoctorMichael]

Le Bump.

[Grampa Dave]

Monsieur Doggie, it is obvious that those passports were stolen from our embassy by your CIA?

Reality break, here. This is Bill Gertz of the Washington Times not some left wing liar of the NY Slimes.

One can only imagine what data SOS Powell has to show behind closed doors in Paris. I think that we will start to see some real positive changes in the Frog behavior. The first was the vote in the Security Council to remove all sanctions from Iraq. We may even see ChIraq retiring to spend more time with his family.

[Grampa Dave]

This is what our guys are finding. I'm sure that the Brits and the Aussie SAS guys have found a lot of stuff and identifying it and cataloging it until the proper moment to open it up.

Notice how most of the top US Rats in Congress are being very mum on re No WMD's being found?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the link. According to the defense officials, the French passports found in Iraq were obtained by U.S. military teams in the country within the past several weeks.

Just for grins, I thought I'd high-lite the pertinent part of the quote. The "stealth" admin keeps stacking up the evidence for later use. It's just way too cool.

hehe ! For some reason, that reminds me of this:

Entrapment by Bush:
He plays Democrats for fools,
and they always rise to his bait

The Rewards of Boldness

Bush and the art of Rope-a-Dope

"Somehow, Bush managed, once again, to do exactly what his critics wanted him to and defeat them entirely in the process."...This tactic has come to be known, by critics and admirers alike, as the "rope-a-dope" strategy...

[Dog Gone]

The French continue to be our enemies, and it would be foolish to forgive and forget.

[Spirited]

" A defense intelligence report in early March showed that French oil companies were working with Russian oil firms to conclude deals with Saddam's regime that both companies hoped would be honored by any successor government"

In the UN compromise we made with France & Germany over the oil issue, didn't they get the right to keep all of these in return for their yes vote?