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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:36 AM
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What's the latest on the "US planting WMD in Iraq" story?
Anybody know?
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:42 AM
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1. I haven't heard anything about this
Where was the initial story?

Bryant
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:43 AM
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2. Link
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:47 AM
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3. Interesting
The original story came from an Iranian News Agency (Mehr). Does Iran have freedom of the press or is it a governmental news agency?
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:51 AM
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4. From what I've heard Mehr isnt the most reliable source
But I know the fringe media is keeping it's eye on the story.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 09:10 AM
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7. Seems like the danger of this story
Is that legitimate attempts to find weapons of mass destruction can be easily characterized as attempst to fictionalize weapons of mass destruction.

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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:06 PM
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9. There wouldn't be so much of the danger you speak of
if the Administration had proven more credible on anything else.
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High Sierra Buck Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:51 AM
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5. Here is the latest scoop from a few days back
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_6481.shtml

This story has been ongoing for awhile, this is the latest....
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 08:56 AM
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6. That's what I posted above -- Thanks
I want to make sure we keep our eyes on this.

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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:04 PM
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8. Hi High Sierra Buck!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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pissedoff Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:25 PM
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10. CIA and DOD Attempted To Plant WMD In Iraq
Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 01:27 PM by pissedoff
still researching this...

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266752.shtml

CIA and DOD Attempted To Plant WMD In Iraq
author: Iraqwar.ru

A DOD whistleblower detail an attempt by a covert U.S. team to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The team was later killed by friendly fire due to CIA incompetence.
Pentagon Whistleblower Reveals CIA/ DoD Fiascos
20.06.2003 <08:07>

In a world exclusive, Al Martin Raw.com has published a news story about a Department of Defense whistleblower who has revealed that a US covert operations team had planted "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) in Iraq – then "lost" them when the team was killed by so-called "friendly fire."

The Pentagon whistleblower, Nelda Rogers, is a 28-year veteran debriefer for the Defense Department. She has become so concerned for her safety that she decided to tell the story about this latest CIA-military fiasco in Iraq.

According to Al Martin Raw.com, "Ms.Rogers is number two in the chain of command within this DoD special intelligence office. This is a ten-person debriefing unit within the central debriefing office for the Department of Defense.

The information that is being leaked out is information "obtained while she was in Germany heading up the debriefing of returning service personnel, involved in intelligence work in Iraq for the Department of Defense and/or the Central Intelligence Agency.

"According to Ms. Rogers, there was a covert military operation that took place both preceding and during the hostilities in Iraq," reports Al Martin Raw.com, an online subscriber-based news/analysis service which provides "Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence."

Al Martin is a retired Lt. Commander (US Navy), the author of a memoir called "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, " and he is considered one of America's foremost experts on corporate and government fraud.

Ms. Rogers reports that this particular covert operation team was manned by ex-military personnel and that "the unit was paid through the Department of Agriculture in order to hide it, which is also very commonplace."

According to Al Martin Raw.com, "the Ag Department has often been used as a paymaster on behalf of the CIA, DIA, and NSA and others."

Accordng to the Al Martin Raw.com story, another aspect of Ms. Rogers' report concerns a covert operation which was to locate the assets of Saddam Hussein and his family, including cash, gold bullion, jewelry and assorted valuable antiquities.

The problem became evident when "the operation in Iraq involved 100 people, all of whom apparently are now dead, having succumbed to so-called 'friendly fire.' The scope of this operation included the penetration of the Central Bank of Iraq, other large commercial banks in Baghdad, the Iraqi National Museum and certain presidential palaces where monies and bullion were secreted."

"They identified about $2 billion of cash in US dollars, another $150 million in Euros, in physical banknotes, and about another $100 million in sundry foreign currencies ranging from Yen to British Pounds," reports Al Martin.

"These people died, mostly in the same place in Baghdad, supposedly from a stray cruise missile or a combination of missiles and bombs that went astray," Martin continues. "There were supposedly 76 who died there and the other 24 died through a variety of 'friendly fire,' 'mistaken identity,' and some of them – their whereabouts are simply unknown."

Ms. Rogers' story sound like an updated 21st Century version of Treasure Island meets Ali Baba and the Bush Cabal Thieves, writes Martin.

"This was a contingent of CIA/ DoD operatives, but it was really the CIA that bungled it, Ms. Rogers said. They were relying on the CIA's ability to organize an effort to seize these assets and to be able to extract these assets because the CIA claimed it had resources on the ground within the Iraqi army and the Iraqi government who had been paid. That turned out to be completely bogus. As usual."

"CIA people were supposed to be handling it," Martin continues. "They had a special 'black (unmarked) aircraft to fly it out. But none of that happened because the regular US Army showed up, stumbled onto it and everyone involved had to scramble.

These new Iraqi "Asset Seizures" go directly to the New US Ruling Junta. The US Viceroy in Iraq Paul Bremer is reportedly drinking Saddam Hussein's $2000 a bottle Napoleon era brandy, smoking his expensive Davidoff cigars and he has even furnished his Baghdad office with Saddam's Napolean era antique furniture

The Iraq Debacle Du Jour has evidently been extensively documented by the DIA debriefing teams with "extensive tape recordings of interviews with the Iraqi returnees, the covert operatives (as well as their affidavits)."

Al Martin Raw.com has dubbed this "Operation Skim Iraq."

homepage: http://www.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=9474&lang=en




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