March 2001 Document: Saddam Regime Plans to Strike American Presence and Interests (Translation).

Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents http://70.168.46.200/ ^ | October 16 2006 | jveritas

[jveritas]

Thank you Stallone, just doing my little duty.

[jveritas]

Enchante

There were 6 pages in this documents, the FMSO website posted a translation of the first 4 but not page 5 and 6 which are the one I translated. May be our government does not want to embarrass some countries like Russia, France, and China by showing that Saddam regime was working on committing them to business deals and hence oppose the US policy against the regime, and unfortunately Saddam regime succeeded in doing so.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

I just wanted to thank both of you again for what you do.

Eyespy, I appreciate the pings to these and related threads.

Mr. veritas, Thank you very much for your translations of these documents. They give us a good idea of what was transpiring and when things were transpiring. These are fabulous resources for the future. It does matter what you both are doing.

[piasa]

No, the only case I recall of military translators a couple years ago was al Halabi who was sacked for lying about his citizenship, failing to record his meetings with prisoners and for having contacts at the Syrian embassy to whom he was trying to pass info on detainees and flights in and out of Gitmo.

Then there was Sibil Edmunds but that wasn't a military issue.

[jveritas]

You are welcome.

[ravingnutter]

In reference to Prague/Atta...from my files:

In Washington, the FBI moved to quiet the Prague connection by telling journalists that it had car rentals and records that put Atta in Virginia Beach, Va., and Florida close to, if not during, the period when he was supposed to be in Prague. The New York Times , citing information provided by "federal law enforcement officials," reported that Atta was in Virginia Beach on April 2, 2001, and by April 11, "Atta was back in Florida, renting a car."

All these reports attributed to the FBI were, as it turns out, erroneous. There were no car rental records in Virginia, Florida, or anywhere else in April 2001 for Mohamed Atta, since he had not yet obtained his Florida license.

His international license was at his father's home in Cairo, Egypt (where his roommate Marwan al-Shehhi picked it up in late April). Nor were there other records in the hands of the FBI that put Atta in the United States at the time. Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2002, "It is possible that Atta traveled under an unknown alias" to "meet with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague." Clearly, it was not beyond the capabilities of the 9/11 hijackers to use aliases.

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The only dispute over Atta's whereabouts is whether he was in Prague on April 9, 2001, to meet with Samir al Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer. Czech intelligence insists he was. Able Danger, apparently, had information supporting the Czechs.

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Spanish police last February arrested Algerians Khaled Madani, 33, and Moussa Laour, 36, on suspicion of furnishing phony passports to, among others, al Qaeda operatives Ramzi Binalshibh and Mohamed Atta. According to a February 29 Associated Press dispatch, Binalshibh revealed Madani's identity to interrogators at the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Meanwhile, in a February 24 letter to James Beasley, Jr., the attorney in the aforementioned lawsuit, Czech U.N. Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek affirms an October 26, 2001 statement by Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross: "In this moment we can confirm, that during the next stay of Mr. Muhammad Atta in the Czech Republic there was the contact with the official of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Al Ani, Ahmed Khalin Ibrahim Samir, who was on 22nd April 2001 expelled from the Czech Republic on the basis of activities which were not compatible with the diplomatic status." Atta flew from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Prague on April 7, 2001. Car-rental records place him in the Czech capitol the next day. He flew home to Florida that April 9.

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[NeoCaveman]

bookmarking

[Enchante]

"What is the difference between calling to strike the US interests and planning to strike the US interests? On Captain Quarter someone is saying the same thing as you do, but I myself do not the difference between two."

Well there's no difference as far as giving us reason to consider Saddam's regime a dangerous enemy, and I agree that either kind of statement would provide us with another justification for taking down Saddam's regime. Either interpretation does go against all the mindless libs who pretend that Saddam's regime was not any threat to the USA or the west...... however, there are distinctions in culpability between propagandistic bombast, more active planning of specific terrorist plans, and those who actually carry out terror attacks.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From CQ:

March 2001: Iraqi IIS Wants To Attack American Assets

*********************AN EXCERPT ****************************

JV has continued his excellent work at the Free Republic forum in translating captured documents from the Iraqi government. He has taken a close look at document CMPC-2003-006758, translating it from the Arabic and revealing the intent of Iraq to attack American interests. The memo from the IIS complains about the election of "Bush the Son" and talks about the need to exhort terrorists to attack America:

[piasa]

Thanks!