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april15bendovr on Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:52:13 PM
PBS, NY Times & Scott Ritter promoted false history in IraqHave you seen this CNS news report posted at Laurie Mylroie's website? If you haven't yet its time you should
http://www.lauriemylroie.com/
http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReports/archive/200410/SPE20041013a.html
CNSNews Report:
Saddam Had WMD,
Extensive Terror Ties
By Scott Wheeler
"The senior government official and source of the Iraqi intelligence memos, explained that the reason the documents have not been made public before now is that the government has ‘thousands and thousands of documents waiting to be translated"
Quote from the article
“M14 is a reference to Iraqi intelligence directorate of special operations. The Iraqi documents obtained by CNSNews.com show a list of 92 individuals of various national origins who were described in the documents as having “finished the course at M14.”
According to Richard O. Spertzel M14 is in fact "Salman Pak" and who would know better than a member of the Iraq Survey Group?
“HAVE WAR CRITICS EVEN READ THE DUELFER REPORT?”
"It is asserted that Iraq was not supporting terrorists. Really? Documentation indicates that Iraq was training non-Iraqis at Salman Pak in terrorist techniques, including assassination and suicide bombing. In addition to Iraqis, trainees included Palestinians, Yemenis, Saudis, Lebanese, Egyptians and Sudanese."
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8195
Page 8 of this report a former UNSCOM inspector Jonathan B. Tucker includes Saddams stalling tactics specifically at Salman Pak
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yiFiR4ECvhEJ:cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol03/33/tucker33.pdf+documents+and+photographs+salman+pak&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us
MONITORING AND VERIFICATION IN A
NONCOOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT: LESSONS
FROM THE U.N. EXPERIENCE IN IRAQ
by Jonathan B. Tucker
"The systematic destruction of evidence also took place at sites involved in the Iraqi BW program.Two weeks before the first UNSCOM biological inspection team visited the research laboratory at Salman Pak in August 1991, the Iraqis tore down several structures at the site that had survived the Coalition bombing campaign unscathed, including buildings housing fermenters, an aerosol inhalation test chamber, and a small incinerator. The steel aerosol chamber was crushed and deposited at a dump several kilometers away. The Iraqis then bulldozed the site and covered it with fresh dirt to erase any remaining evidence. They also burned reams of documents, leaving melted looseleaf binders and piles of ashes scattered around the site. According to a member of the UNSCOM team that visited Salman Pak: Although the Iraqis were able to produce some original research papers and hand-drawn sketches of the layout of the buildings now reduced to rubble, they were unable to produce any documentary evidence to support their assertions, claiming that everything was destroyed by the bombing. Although none of us wanted to admit it, one thing became painfully clear: the only thing we were going to get from the Iraqis was what they wanted to give us.
24 Impeding Inspections During no-notice inspections of sensitive sites, the Iraqi minders have found excuses ranging from transportation bottlenecks to bad weather to delay the U.N. team’s arrival and buy time to remove incriminating evidence. Since inspections of undeclared sites far from Baghdad require the use of a helicopter to transport the inspection team, the Iraqi authorities insist on 15 hours’ notice to “stand down” their air defenses so that the U.N. helicopters can fly safely. Although inspection teams try to avoid revealing the location of the target site by declaring a large block of airspace for the helicopter to fly through, the Iraqis still derive useful clues from the advance notice, particularly if they are concerned about a particular clandestine facility within the declared zone.
25 On a few occasions, the Iraqis have also threatened to open fire on UNSCOM helicopters if they approach secure areas such as presidential palaces. Once the inspectors arrive on-site, plant managers sometimes refuse to provide requested documents or give answers that are inappropriate to the questions asked. Another common delaying tactic is for Iraqi officials to feign incomprehension and request the services of an interpreter even though they are capable of speaking fluent English in other situations.U.N. inspection teams are generally not allowed to interview more than a few senior engineers and technicians employed at an inspected facility, regardless of the type of site visited. During plant walk-throughs, minders from the National Monitoring Directorate may prevent plant workers from responding to inspector pressure the few individuals who speak some English to work through an interpreter. In addition, the fact that the minders videotape all interviews has a chilling effect on the willingness of plant workers to speak freely. At times, Iraqi stalling tactics have verged on intimidation. During a biological weapons inspection at Salman Pak, for example, Iraqi soldiers deliberately placed live munitions and a radioactive source inside bunkers that were to be inspected. In addition to frightening the UNSCOM inspectors, this tactic delayed the inspection until the ordnance had been removed and a nuclear expert had been called to check the radioactive source.
26 On another occasion, the Iraqi authorities tried to prevent the excavation of a field near Salman Pak suspected of containing buried biological munitions. The Iraqi officials brought in Moslem clergymen who spent two hours pleading with the UNSCOM team that the field was a grave site and that digging would be sacrilegious. Although the chief inspector finally ordered the excavation to proceed, only one trench had been completed before the backhoe broke down and work had to cease because of the intense midday heat. On subsequent days the clergymen did not return and the excavation proceeded, but no incriminating evidence was found."
Now if you look at what Scott Ritter was quoted saying in the BBC article titled "Reporters Visit Suspect Iraqi Sites" we have quite a story. We can now ask questions why Seymour Hersh and the NY Times became so interested in discrediting intelligence. Maybe even including why the Docex project received a lot of heat from the NY Times and had to shut down?
Scott Ritter Quotes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2247658.stm
‘No terrorism training’
The former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter accompanied the journalists to Salman Pak.
He said there was obviously no terrorism training taking place there - a site he said the US was ready to go to war for.
The journalists were shown an old Iraqi plane abandoned in a field, which Mr Ritter said was used by Iraqi security forces to train for rescuing passengers from hijacked planes.
“Any nation that has an airline industry trains people to rescue those who have been on aircraft that have been hijacked,” he said.
“If there is a time and a place to go to war I will be there,” he said.
“But I am not going to go to war based on a fabrication, especially from politically motivated Iraqi defectors who intend to misuse the tragedy of 11 September by saying somehow those who perpetrated that crime were trained here.”
PBS made a ridiculous retraction on the defectors used in their Gunning for Saddam report. They conveniently threw the men they interviewed in their documentary underneath the bus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
PBS deciding to discredit these Iraqi men and neglected to note the news conference on Salman Pak by BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS with many other dicoveries corroberated their evidence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/
WAR NEWS UPDATE
April 6, 2003
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june03/warupdate_04-06.html
“BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS: That’s just one of a number of examples we’ve found where there’s training activity happening inside Iraq. It reinforces the likelihood of links between this regime and external terrorist organizations, clear links with common interests. Some of these fighters came from Sudan, some from Egypt and other places and we killed a number of them and have captured a number of them and that’s where some of the information came from”
Now it is time to ask PBS, The NY Times and Scott Ritter questions why their information looks twisted.