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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:37 AM
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Is the U.S. Hiding Secrets about Saddam?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8298669/

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Iraqi’s justice minister said Tuesday that U.S. officials are trying to delay interrogations of Saddam Hussein.

Justice Minister Abdel Hussein Shandal, in Brussels for an international conference on Iraq, also accused the United States of concealing information about the ousted Iraqi leader.

“It seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide,” he told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.

There should be transparency and there should be frankness, but there are secrets that if revealed, wont be in the interest of many countries, he said. Who was helping Saddam all those years?

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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:39 AM
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1. they were talking quick trial, i knew there wouldnt be
Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 09:40 AM by seabeyond
during campaign, talking about trial of saddam, i was saying bring it on. knew saddam had too much on the repugs.....knew it wouldnt be held before election. i am looking to have saddam on trial. not that bushco's would allow anything

like for example, gassing his people. i believe it was iran that gassed the kurds accidently. cant have that get out to general public
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:41 AM
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2. of course they are...next question.
he's the monster we created and armed.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:42 AM
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3. That would be a "yes"...... I bet Rummy knows this as well !
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:46 AM
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4. We know we can't have all this stuff come out about my daddy
Er, dubby's daddy. And poor saint Ronnie will be rolling over in his grave when saddam begins to speak.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:48 AM
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5. How dare they try to tarnish St. Ronnie Raygun's legacy?!?!
So what if Ronnie winked when Saddam was gassing Kurds and murdered US sailors. Raygun is the best!
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:56 AM
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6. Proof of Trillions in Bu$h Family Business With Saddam
Proof of Trillions in Bu$h Family Business With Saddam 1989-1991
author: Gordon Thomas

The Bush family were doing business with Saddam Hussein from 1989 up to months before the outbreak of the first Gulf War.

In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence “of the mobilisation of trillions of dollars in 1989-91”. The document names a number of banks it alleges were “supervised by the Bush Sr White House” in the transactions


Business links – involving “the mobilisation of trillions of dollars” – by President Bush’s father and his brother Neil, were under investigation by America’s top spy catcher, Paul Redmond, when he resigned.

A well-placed Washington intelligence source said that Redmond quit after a White House meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

They are known as “The Enforcers” – ensuring there is no taint on the reputation of the increasingly embattled President with the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Already, said the Washington source, the two men have ensured Bush distances himself from Tony Blair’s claims that the weapons will be found.

But equally Downing Street will want to stay clear of the allegation that the President’s family were doing business with Saddam from 1989 up to months before the outbreak of the first Gulf War.

In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence “of the mobilisation of trillions of dollars in 1989-91”.

The document names a number of banks it alleges were “supervised by the Bush Sr White House” in the alleged transactions.

The banks identified in the document include the British Royal Family bankers, Coutts; Morgan Guaranty Trust and Chase Manhattan, New York; Banco Exterior de Espana, Spain; First International Bank of Denver in the United States.

“What will cause astonishment is the provenance of some of these compromising documents. For many months we considered carefully whether they could be forgeries, and whether it could be credible that an intelligence organisation or a private gang of blackmailers and counterfeiters could replicate the precise behaviour of an obsolescent IBM computer to produce output identical to those images shown with this analysis. We checked these possibilities repeatedly with experts and also consulted banking sources to see whether these documents could possibly be fraudulent. The outcome of these investigations was unequivocally that the documentation is genuine.”

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/07/268817.shtml

Spies, Lies & Sneaky Guys: Espionage and Intelligence"

Paul Redmond is an internationally recognized authority on security, counterespionage, and counterintelligence, with hands-on experience throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Former Soviet Union.

Mr. Redmond is a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a Consultant to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Crime and Loss Prevention Institute, Northeastern University College of Criminal Justice.

During his thirty-year tenure at the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Redmond managed the CIA’s extensive counterintelligence organization, and counseled three succeeding Directors of Central Intelligence on highly sensitive counterintelligence matters, including technical and personnel security concerns. He established and built productive working relationships with NATO and with foreign intelligence and security chiefs worldwide. Redmond oversaw the counterintelligence aspects of personnel, computer systems and physical plants in the U.S. and abroad, and supervised the support provided by the CIA to the private sector relating to commercial counterespionage. He was instrumental in the apprehension of Aldrich Ames.
http://www.sabatiergroup.com/redmond.html



Paul Redmond, who headed counterintelligence for the CIA, was appointed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after meeting UD students in the Global Agenda series.

http://www.udel.edu/global/agenda/2003/gallery.html


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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 10:46 AM
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7. That would explain why the US armed forces
made sure the Oil ministry buildings were secured first, above everything else, including banks, hospitals, museums filled with priceless artifacts . . .
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bribri16 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 10:58 AM
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8. YES!!! n/t
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:02 AM
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9. You mean like the fact he didn't commit the atrocities he's accused of?
Nah, the US gubment under bush wouldn't do something like LIE... would they??????
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