"The US Government has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents"
Are you suggesting they're fake?
that quotation was from the army website where the documents are posted.
i wasn't suggesting anything. i wanted to learn where the document was from; how the army got it. the source of a document is as important as the words in it, when it comes to interpreting its meaning. (i'm sure that people who opposed saddam would be perfectly willing to give a fake document to the army. that's how disinformation is conducted.)
the more i hear from jveritas, the more i am assuming they are not fake. he reports that most of the docs were captured from Iraqi intelligence HQ. if it came from there, i would assume it is real.
(i actually hadn't thought about US army intel posting fake documents, but i wouldn't put it past the CIA to hand some fake documents to army intel so that they could be posted. there have been previous instances of cia-planted disinformation stories--under some previous president--that inadvertently got picked up by american newspapers and published here.)