Appears that with Koppel and Jennings gone, ABC news is finally growing
some
balls:
Excerpt:
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One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when
Saddam predicts - during a meeting in the mid 1990s - a terrorist attack
on
the United States. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time
before August 2 and told the British as well . that in the future there
will
be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such
attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a
booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a
chemical one?" But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. "This is
coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq."
Also at the meeting was Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said
Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. "Sir, the biological is very
easy to make. It's so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs
and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a
state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it."
The tapes also reveal Iraq 's persistent efforts to hide information about
weapons of mass destruction programs from U.N. inspectors well into the
1990s. In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April
or
May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that U.N.
inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq's biological weapons program-a
program whose existence Iraq had previously denied.
At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law and the man who was in
charge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the
tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the U.N.
"We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel says in the meeting. "Not the
type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the
volume
of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this
was correct." Shortly after this meeting, in August 1995, Hussein Kamel
defected to Jordan, and Iraq was forced to admit that it had concealed its
biological weapons program. (Kamel returned to Iraq in February 1996 and
was
killed in a firefight with Iraqi security forces.)
A spokeswoman for the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte,
said information contained in the transcriptions of the tapes was already
known to intelligence officials.
"Intelligence community analysts from the CIA, and the DIA reviewed the
translations and found that while fascinating from a historical
perspective
the tapes do not reveal anything that changes their post war analysis of
Iraq's weapons programs nor do they change the findings contained in the
comprehensive Iraq Survey group report," the spokeswoman said in a
statement.
"The tapes mostly date from early to mid 1990s and cover such topics as
relations with the United Nations, efforts to rebuild industries from Gulf
war damage and the pre 9/11 situation in Afghanistan."
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/story?id=1616996
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Any more questions on why Bush and Cheney decided to invade Iraq?
Appears they did use intelligence known to and given to the Clinton
administration! Any more schizo liberals want to accuse them of lying to
the American Public?
Mallard Fillmore :(
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard012102.asp
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