"I love proving you wrong."
Enjoy the feeling while you can, Barney; the next 40 years will prove you were nothing but a useful idiot for Osama bin Laden, the same way the Venona Papers proved American leftists were useful idiots for Soviet Communism. Although less than 1% of captured Iraqi documents have been translated, they've already shown the following:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003552.php
October 14, 2004
Leaked Iraqi intelligence documents connect Saddam to Zarqawi and bin Laden
Walid Phares has the goods. From World Magazine:
Walid Phares thumbed a sheaf of documents, all in Arabic and nearly all bearing the spherical slogan of Iraq's intelligence service, or Mukhabarat. The Middle East scholar, a Lebanese-American Christian who speaks four languages and is a recognized expert on Islamic militants and terrorism, has interrupted a sick day (prior engagement with a root canal) in order to evaluate 42 just-leaked intelligence documents confiscated by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Moistening his finger and translating out loud, Mr. Phares read from the pages in his third-floor office in downtown Washington, where he is taking a year off from teaching at Florida Atlantic University to serve as senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He didn't notice as his narrating voice rose with incredulity. Finishing, he rapped the papers with his fingers and concluded: "This is a watershed. This is big."
Mr. Phares is one of at least four eminent Middle East experts to agree that the documents—published for the first time last week—demonstrate that Saddam Hussein collaborated with and supported Islamic terrorist groups, including the current terror nemesis in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The papers, obtained by Cybercast News Service (CNS) and released Oct. 4, "establish irreversible evidence that there were strategic relations between the Baathist regime and Islamist groups that became al-Qaeda," Mr. Phares said after reviewing them at WORLD's request on Oct. 6. In addition, the documents link al-Zarqawi-associated groups throughout the Middle East, including al-Qaeda, on Saddam's payroll and acting under his direct authority.
Evidence and the word of experts, however, is having little effect on the John Kerry campaign....John Edwards blasted the president's war strategy in a televised debate with Vice President Dick Cheney. "There is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th—period," Mr. Edwards said....
Sen. John Kerry, too, insists on the stump that the president's "two main rationales—weapons of mass destruction and the al-Qaeda/Sept. 11 connection—have been proved false."
But the documents suggest otherwise. They include an 11-page memo, dated Jan. 25, 1993, listing "parties related to our system . . . expert in executing the required missions." The memo cites Palestinian, Sudanese, and Asian terror groups, and shows a developing relationship with groups affiliated with al-Qaeda, including Mr. al-Zarqawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—figures who are now on the U.S. most-wanted list for ongoing assaults in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Jan. 25, 1993, memo also describes an intelligence service meeting with a splinter group led by Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman. Mr. Abdel-Rahman is a son of the blind Egyptian, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, accused of inspiring the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and arrested in 1994 for targeting New York landmarks. Pakistani officials caught the younger Abdel-Rahman last year, and say he helped lead authorities to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the 9/11 attack planners.
A separate memo, dated March 18, 1993, asks intelligence officers to provide "details of Arab martyrs who got trained" in conjunction with post–Gulf War "committees of martyrs act." In reply another office supplied 92 names with nationalities, all "trained inside the ‘martyr act camp' that belonged to our directorate." In all, 40 are linked to Palestinian groups, 21 are Sudanese, and others range from Eritrea, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, and Egypt. Most of the trainees completed a government-sponsored course on Nov. 24, 1990, and were sent on missions throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
Accompanying the memos are separate notations signed by Saddam Hussein's secretary, suggesting the president himself had reviewed and endorsed each action.
"Saddam was personally overseeing the details" of training terrorists and assigning their missions, Mr. Phares said. "From 1993 on, Saddam Hussein connected with Sunni fundamentalists in the Arab world. He was in touch with the founding members of al-Qaeda."
Here are links to additional Iraqi documents that were only recently released and translated:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/214/753/320/zarq1.jpg
http://70.169.163.24/
ISGZ-2004-019920
2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida Members in Iraq.
Correspondence between IRS members on a suspicion, later confirmed, of the presence of an Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Moreover, it includes photos and names.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=133241
Secretary 384 7/8/2002
In the name of God the Merciful
From I.M 53/1/5
Document No 513387 per our letter 3077 in 23/6/2002 and in reference to proclamation illegible number numbered 9096 in 8/1/2002. Information are available from a trusted source about the individual existence of [illegible] our letter above inside the country and they are accused of dealing with the Al Qaeda organization that is lead by the Saudi Osama Bin Laden and they possess more than one passport. [illegible] to the respectful Mr. Director of the apparatus [illegible] 515 to direct your sources to track the existence of the people mentioned above within your work domain and inform us in case you prove this 515. [illegible] your view to inspect the pictures of those mentioned with the pictures of the Jordanian community with your work domain 535 [illegible] tourist hotels, residential apartments, rented homes. Relate the subject [illegible] with our boss.
Signature....
End of page 7 translation
Page 4, 5, and 6 of the pdf document were the attachments that the Iraqi intelligence officer attached to his letter and it contain pictures of two individuals and one of them ispage Ahmad Fadil Nazal AlKhalayla or better know to us a Zarqawi (pages 4 and 5).
http://forum.chronwatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26690
Source
Document CMPC-2003-001488
Translator:
Omar of Iraq the Model
March 17, 2006 07:35 PM
In the name of God the merciful the compassionate
Presidency of the Republic
Intelligence Service
2/913/5th directorate
Sir: Director General of the 5th directorate
Subject: Information
Our Afghani source #002 (info on him in paper slip ‘1’) has informed us that Afghani consular Ahmed Dahistani (info on him in paper slip ‘2’) had spoken before him of the following:
1-That Usama Bin Ladin and the Taliban group in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and that a group from the Taliban and Usama Bin Ladin’s group had conducted a visit to Iraq.
2-That America possesses evidence that Iraq and Usama Bin Ladin’s group had cooperated to strike targets inside America.
3-Incase Taliban and Usama’s group are proven involved in those sabotage operations, it will be possible that America directs strikes at Iraq and Afghanistan.
4-That the Afghani consular had heard about the Iraq connections with Usama Bin Ladin’s group during his presence in Iran.
5-In the light of what preceded we suggest writing to the Intentions Committee about the above information.
Please be informed…..your feedback please…..with appreciation.
(signature) (signature)
Information office send immediately to the
Of the 5th directorate/3 Intentions Committee
9/15/2001
Document: ISGQ-2003-00004500-0
Translator: Laura Mansfield
March 17, 2006 8:45 PM
In the name of God the most Merciful, the most Compassionate
Republic of Iraq
The Presidency
Fedayeen Saddam
Security Board
SEC-RET AND PERSONAL
Number: 1/22/11836
Date: 12/1/2001
To: Iraqi Intelligence Service
Re: Rumor
Greetings.
1. In the report on the status of rumors for November of 2001 regarding Fedayeen Saddam in al-Anbar, there is an entry that indicates that there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack.
2. After presenting the matter to the Supervisor of Fedayeen Saddam, he ordered that the matter should be looked into for verification of the truth of the rumor.
Please review and inform us.
Original Arabic here. Commentary from Laura Mansfield follows:
The newly declassified documents shed more and more light on the evolution of the violent insurgency in Iraq, and show that Saddam Hussein’s government was aware not just of the presence of Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Mus’ab Al Zarqawi, but also was aware that the Anbar province in Iraq was being used as a launch point for organized groups of jihadis headed to fight the United States in Afghanistan.
The document, addressed to the Security Board, Fedayeen Saddam at the office of the Presidency in Iraq, reports what it describes as a “rumor”, says:
there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack
This clearly indicates that Iraq was being used as a transit point or launch point for Saudi Arabian jihadis, as well as Iraqis, who wanted to go join the forces of Osama Bin Laden in Iraq in November 2001, nearly a year and a half before the US and Coalition forces commenced military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The sheer volume of “mujahideen” that reportedly departed from the Anbar province, combined with the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq, indicates the presence of an organized Al Qaeda infrastructure within Iraq just a few months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The Anbar province is Iraq’s largest province and is located east and southeast of Baghdad. Anbar borders the neighboring states of Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, making it a popular transit point for the insurgents moving in and out of Iraq.
SOURCE
The Paper Trail
Newly released documents provide more evidence of Saddam's terror ties.
BY LAURIE MYLROIE
Sunday, April 2, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
After substantial prodding--including from The Wall Street Journal--the U.S. government has finally begun to release its captured Iraqi documents and is posting them at the Web site of the Army's Foreign Military Studies Office. This material will take considerable time to absorb and analyze, but it may yet contribute significantly to our understanding of the nature of the threat Saddam Hussein posed.
Most dramatically, an Iraqi intelligence report, apparently written in early 1997, describes Iraqi efforts to establish ties with various elements in the Saudi opposition, including Osama bin Laden. Until 1996, the Saudi renegade was based in Sudan, then ruled by Hassan Turabi's National Islamic Front. One of Iraq's few allies, Sudan served as an intermediary between Baghdad and bin Laden, as well as other Islamic radicals. On Feb. 19, 1995, an Iraqi intelligence agent met with bin Laden in Khartoum.
Bin Laden asked for two things: to carry out joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia and to broadcast the speeches of a radical Saudi cleric. Iraq agreed to the latter, but apparently not the former, at least as far as the author of this report knew. Notably, the report also states, "We are working at the present time to activate this relationship through new channels."
This one report hints at the extensive international presence that the Iraqi Intelligence Service maintained. Iraq's ambassadors to Sudan and Yemen were intelligence agents, suggesting that those two countries were major centers of IIS activity. The report also mentions IIS stations in Islamabad, New Delhi and New York.
Another newly released document bears the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It is a flier from the "Committee for Arab Liaison with the Islamic Emirate" (i.e., Afghanistan) for recruiting volunteers in Iraq to fight in Afghanistan. It explains that the "Arab brothers" who wish to go there should send a written proposal "so that we can know him and his needs." Zarqawi is among six people listed as individuals to contact.
There is no such thing as an indispensible man but Zark has been the face of Al Queda in Iraq for far too long. Our boys were close? That sounds good to me but no skeptic will be satisfied on this topic with anything other than his scalp. Although producing said scalp will gain BushCo no props or even marginal dimunition of the witless attacks from the antis. Oh well.
You know how the right claims (falsely) that OBL was offered to Clinton on a silver platter? Well it now appears that Zarqawi was there for the taking, but Bush was too nuance to act. The report will air on ABC tonight, but here is a primer.
"The reasons the intelligence service got for not shooting Zarqawi was simply that the President and the National Security Council decided it was more important not to give the Europeans the impression we were gunslingers," he said.
"Mr Bush had Mr Zarqawi in his sights for almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq."
How many Americans and Iraqis died because Bush failed to act?
Just viewed the ABC site...Nothing in there regarding Barney's claims; not even a teaser.
BTW...a year before the invasion, liberals were claiming there were no terrorists in Iraq.
It's a fine bit of hindsight to say that all our troubles would be over if Bush went ahead and just killed Zark, despite that there were already those in the Democrat party that didn't want to do anything without going to the UN for permission.
Imagine Bush taking out Zark as he was trying to get the UN to get off their duffs and do more than help Hussein stall for time.If we had killed Zark before entering Iraq, how many Democrats would've tried for impeachment based on Bush's not having authority to do something 'illegal' as assassinating a 'militant'.
heres the link. . .
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1627197.htm
Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy.
A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Mike Scheuer headed the CIA's bin Laden unit for six years before resigning in 2004.
He has told the ABC's Four Corners program the Bush administration had Zarqawi in its sights almost every day for a year.
He says a plan to destroy Zarqawi's training camp in Kurdistan was abandoned for diplomatic reasons.
. . .
The full story will air on Four Corners tonight on ABC television.
rather than 'pile-on' Bush over this, I commend him. It is the one time he seems to have considered the true consequences of his actions.
Now maybe the right will understand how silly they sounded when they blamed Clinton for not getting Osama. Sure, he could have gotten him, but at what cost? Wipe out a few heads-of-state in the process, no big deal!
"Sure, he could have gotten him, but at what cost?"
Geez, I don't know. How about the lives of over 2,000 American citizens who died on 9/11. Of course, not that you care by the sounds of it.
Absolutely unbelievable. Get a clue, they had plenty of opportunities to get him while he was with the rest of his criminal organization.
As far you Barney, please come up with something original. You bash Bush for going after terrorists, now you are bashing him for not going after terrorists. You are a broken record that has been playing for over three years.
Posted by: Hermie: “BTW...a year before the invasion, liberals were claiming there were no terrorists in Iraq.”
Zarqawi’s training camp was in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq within the no-fly zone patrolled by coalition forces. Zarqawi fled to northern Iraq after the Taliban was toppled. “Liberals” and the 9/11 commission concluded that Saddam did not have operational ties to terrorists. If anything, Zarqawi was protected by the Bush administration from Saddam.
Barney- enough with the 9-11 commission. It is a joke and you know it.
"If anything, Zarqawi was protected by the Bush administration from Saddam."
What utter nonsense. Zarqawi was Saddam's client. As Colin Powell stated in his February 6, 2003 speech to the UN Security Council: “Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden….[T]he Zarqawi network helped establish [a] poison and explosive training center camp…in northeastern Iraq....Zarqawi…traveled to Baghadad in May 2002 for medical treatments, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months….During this stay, nearly two dozen extremists coverged on Baghadad and established a base of operations there. These al Qaeda affiliates… coordinate the movement of people, money, and supplies into and throughout Iraq for his network….[In 2002] an al Qaeda associate bragged that the situation in Iraq was quote, ‘good.’”
And in a memo dated October 27, 2003 to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith wrote the following: "37. Sensitive reporting indicates senior terrorist planner and close al Qaeda associate al Zarqawi has had an operational alliance with Iraqi officials. As of Oct. 2002, al Zarqawi maintained contacts with the IIS to procure weapons and explosives, including surface-to-air missiles from an IIS officer in Baghdad. According to sensitive reporting, al Zarqawi was setting up sleeper cells in Baghdad to be activated in case of a U.S. occupation of the city, suggesting his operational cooperation with the Iraqis may have deepened in recent months. Such cooperation could include IIS provision of a secure operating bases [sic] and steady access to arms and explosives in preparation for a possible U.S. invasion. Al Zarqawi's procurements from the Iraqis also could support al Qaeda operations against the U.S. or its allies elsewhere."
Barney's statement that the U.S. "protected" Zarqawi from Saddam is a delusional fantasy.
*Shrugs*
I'm with mega on this one. "Woo hoo" we almost got him. Not that it'll matter one wit for those who are against Bush or the war. We could capture OBL tomorrow or Zark and no (okay very few) opinions would change.
"How many Americans and Iraqis died because Bush failed to act?"
Was he reading to an elementary class?
Jpl, Colin’s UN speech? The one that Colin referred to as “lowest point in my life”. Were there any truths in that speech?
Zarqawi was in northern Iraq under cover of the no fly zone. That is a fact, and according to the ABC report, the CIA and the Bush administration knew Zarqawi was there, and choose to turn a blind eye. That sounds like protection to me.
You speak with forked tongue, Barney. You use the word "protecting," but you mean "not assassinating." Very cheap and dishonest rhetorical trick.
As for Colin Powell's speech at the U.N., I challenge you to itemize even a single untruth contained in the short passage that I quoted.
Jpl, regarding the Powell and Fieth statements:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6189795/
WASHINGTON - A CIA report has found no conclusive evidence that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein harbored Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which the Bush administration asserted before the invasion of Iraq.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=144396&page=1
“There’s no conclusive evidence the Saddam Hussein regime had harbored Zarqawi,” a U.S. official said on Tuesday about the CIA findings.
But a senior U.S. official told ABC News that the CIA report, based on captured documents and interviews with former Iraqi officials, raises serious questions about such statements.
The official said there was, in fact, no clear-cut evidence that Saddam even knew Zarqawi was in Baghdad, contrary to what Bush has claimed.
I know that you will down play the reports from the liberal MSM, but try and do the same with the DOD. What Fieth wrote in his letter was so wrong, the DOD had to send out the following statement:
http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031115-0642.html
News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate.
A letter was sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Oct. 27, 2003, from Douglas J. Feith, under secretary of defense for policy, in response to follow-up questions from his July 10 testimony. One of the questions posed by the committee asked the department to provide the reports from the intelligence community to which he referred in his testimony before the committee. These reports dealt with the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.
The letter to the committee included a classified annex containing a list and description of the requested reports, so that the committee could obtain the reports from the relevant members of the intelligence community.
The items listed in the classified annex were either raw reports or products of the CIA, the National Security Agency or, in one case, the Defense Intelligence Agency. The provision of the classified annex to the Intelligence Committee was cleared by other agencies and done with the permission of the intelligence community. The selection of the documents was made by DoD to respond to the committee’s question. The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.
Individuals who leak or purport to leak classified information are doing serious harm to national security; such activity is deplorable and may be illegal.
I love proving you wrong.
JPL,
Regarding that Feith memo, the DoD disavowed it:
"News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate."
As for Powell's statements that you mentioned about a Hussein/Zarqawi link, everyone seems to be backing well away from them now. In fact, many in US intelligence had serious doubts well before the war.
JPL,
Regarding that Feith memo, the DoD disavowed it:
"News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate."
As for Powell's statements that you mentioned about a Hussein/Zarqawi link, everyone seems to be backing well away from them now (if you read the article, make sure you read both pages -- that's where the quotes by Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld are). Powell himself has backed off his comments as well: "I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection."
Gozer,
True enough - but I like it, anyways...good that we're getting after this guy in a big way...
What our lefty posters are not paying attention to here is the actual story - fantasically skilled and brave American soldiers hot on the trail of an American enemy.
Come on, lefties - how about a little pride in the troops? Would it kill ya?
Hey, what you might not know about your buddy Scheuer (or more likely is that you do know, but just don't care) is that he "once insisted Usama bin Laden was not a terrorist but a "resistance fighter," and once described the Al Qaeda leader as a "brilliant man."
Can you say "zero credibility"???
"I love proving you wrong."
Enjoy the feeling while you can, Barney; the next 40 years will prove you were nothing but a useful idiot for Osama bin Laden, the same way the Venona Papers proved American leftists were useful idiots for Soviet Communism. Although less than 1% of captured Iraqi documents have been translated, they've already shown the following:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003552.php
October 14, 2004
Leaked Iraqi intelligence documents connect Saddam to Zarqawi and bin Laden
Walid Phares has the goods. From World Magazine:
Walid Phares thumbed a sheaf of documents, all in Arabic and nearly all bearing the spherical slogan of Iraq's intelligence service, or Mukhabarat. The Middle East scholar, a Lebanese-American Christian who speaks four languages and is a recognized expert on Islamic militants and terrorism, has interrupted a sick day (prior engagement with a root canal) in order to evaluate 42 just-leaked intelligence documents confiscated by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Moistening his finger and translating out loud, Mr. Phares read from the pages in his third-floor office in downtown Washington, where he is taking a year off from teaching at Florida Atlantic University to serve as senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He didn't notice as his narrating voice rose with incredulity. Finishing, he rapped the papers with his fingers and concluded: "This is a watershed. This is big."
Mr. Phares is one of at least four eminent Middle East experts to agree that the documents—published for the first time last week—demonstrate that Saddam Hussein collaborated with and supported Islamic terrorist groups, including the current terror nemesis in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The papers, obtained by Cybercast News Service (CNS) and released Oct. 4, "establish irreversible evidence that there were strategic relations between the Baathist regime and Islamist groups that became al-Qaeda," Mr. Phares said after reviewing them at WORLD's request on Oct. 6. In addition, the documents link al-Zarqawi-associated groups throughout the Middle East, including al-Qaeda, on Saddam's payroll and acting under his direct authority.
Evidence and the word of experts, however, is having little effect on the John Kerry campaign....John Edwards blasted the president's war strategy in a televised debate with Vice President Dick Cheney. "There is no connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th—period," Mr. Edwards said....
Sen. John Kerry, too, insists on the stump that the president's "two main rationales—weapons of mass destruction and the al-Qaeda/Sept. 11 connection—have been proved false."
But the documents suggest otherwise. They include an 11-page memo, dated Jan. 25, 1993, listing "parties related to our system . . . expert in executing the required missions." The memo cites Palestinian, Sudanese, and Asian terror groups, and shows a developing relationship with groups affiliated with al-Qaeda, including Mr. al-Zarqawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—figures who are now on the U.S. most-wanted list for ongoing assaults in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Jan. 25, 1993, memo also describes an intelligence service meeting with a splinter group led by Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman. Mr. Abdel-Rahman is a son of the blind Egyptian, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, accused of inspiring the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and arrested in 1994 for targeting New York landmarks. Pakistani officials caught the younger Abdel-Rahman last year, and say he helped lead authorities to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the 9/11 attack planners.
A separate memo, dated March 18, 1993, asks intelligence officers to provide "details of Arab martyrs who got trained" in conjunction with post–Gulf War "committees of martyrs act." In reply another office supplied 92 names with nationalities, all "trained inside the ‘martyr act camp' that belonged to our directorate." In all, 40 are linked to Palestinian groups, 21 are Sudanese, and others range from Eritrea, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, and Egypt. Most of the trainees completed a government-sponsored course on Nov. 24, 1990, and were sent on missions throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
Accompanying the memos are separate notations signed by Saddam Hussein's secretary, suggesting the president himself had reviewed and endorsed each action.
"Saddam was personally overseeing the details" of training terrorists and assigning their missions, Mr. Phares said. "From 1993 on, Saddam Hussein connected with Sunni fundamentalists in the Arab world. He was in touch with the founding members of al-Qaeda."
Here are links to additional Iraqi documents that were only recently released and translated:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/214/753/320/zarq1.jpg
http://70.169.163.24/
ISGZ-2004-019920
2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida Members in Iraq.
Correspondence between IRS members on a suspicion, later confirmed, of the presence of an Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Moreover, it includes photos and names.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=133241
Secretary 384 7/8/2002
In the name of God the Merciful
From I.M 53/1/5
Document No 513387 per our letter 3077 in 23/6/2002 and in reference to proclamation illegible number numbered 9096 in 8/1/2002. Information are available from a trusted source about the individual existence of [illegible] our letter above inside the country and they are accused of dealing with the Al Qaeda organization that is lead by the Saudi Osama Bin Laden and they possess more than one passport. [illegible] to the respectful Mr. Director of the apparatus [illegible] 515 to direct your sources to track the existence of the people mentioned above within your work domain and inform us in case you prove this 515. [illegible] your view to inspect the pictures of those mentioned with the pictures of the Jordanian community with your work domain 535 [illegible] tourist hotels, residential apartments, rented homes. Relate the subject [illegible] with our boss.
Signature....
End of page 7 translation
Page 4, 5, and 6 of the pdf document were the attachments that the Iraqi intelligence officer attached to his letter and it contain pictures of two individuals and one of them ispage Ahmad Fadil Nazal AlKhalayla or better know to us a Zarqawi (pages 4 and 5).
http://forum.chronwatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26690
Source
Document CMPC-2003-001488
Translator:
Omar of Iraq the Model
March 17, 2006 07:35 PM
In the name of God the merciful the compassionate
Presidency of the Republic
Intelligence Service
2/913/5th directorate
Sir: Director General of the 5th directorate
Subject: Information
Our Afghani source #002 (info on him in paper slip ‘1’) has informed us that Afghani consular Ahmed Dahistani (info on him in paper slip ‘2’) had spoken before him of the following:
1-That Usama Bin Ladin and the Taliban group in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and that a group from the Taliban and Usama Bin Ladin’s group had conducted a visit to Iraq.
2-That America possesses evidence that Iraq and Usama Bin Ladin’s group had cooperated to strike targets inside America.
3-Incase Taliban and Usama’s group are proven involved in those sabotage operations, it will be possible that America directs strikes at Iraq and Afghanistan.
4-That the Afghani consular had heard about the Iraq connections with Usama Bin Ladin’s group during his presence in Iran.
5-In the light of what preceded we suggest writing to the Intentions Committee about the above information.
Please be informed…..your feedback please…..with appreciation.
(signature) (signature)
Information office send immediately to the
Of the 5th directorate/3 Intentions Committee
9/15/2001
Document: ISGQ-2003-00004500-0
Translator: Laura Mansfield
March 17, 2006 8:45 PM
In the name of God the most Merciful, the most Compassionate
Republic of Iraq
The Presidency
Fedayeen Saddam
Security Board
SEC-RET AND PERSONAL
Number: 1/22/11836
Date: 12/1/2001
To: Iraqi Intelligence Service
Re: Rumor
Greetings.
1. In the report on the status of rumors for November of 2001 regarding Fedayeen Saddam in al-Anbar, there is an entry that indicates that there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack.
2. After presenting the matter to the Supervisor of Fedayeen Saddam, he ordered that the matter should be looked into for verification of the truth of the rumor.
Please review and inform us.
Original Arabic here. Commentary from Laura Mansfield follows:
The newly declassified documents shed more and more light on the evolution of the violent insurgency in Iraq, and show that Saddam Hussein’s government was aware not just of the presence of Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Mus’ab Al Zarqawi, but also was aware that the Anbar province in Iraq was being used as a launch point for organized groups of jihadis headed to fight the United States in Afghanistan.
The document, addressed to the Security Board, Fedayeen Saddam at the office of the Presidency in Iraq, reports what it describes as a “rumor”, says:
there is a group of Iraqi and Saudi Arabians numbering around 3,000 who have gone in an unofficial capacity to Afghanistan and have joined the mujahidin to fight with and aid them in defeating the American Zionist Imperialist attack
This clearly indicates that Iraq was being used as a transit point or launch point for Saudi Arabian jihadis, as well as Iraqis, who wanted to go join the forces of Osama Bin Laden in Iraq in November 2001, nearly a year and a half before the US and Coalition forces commenced military action against Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The sheer volume of “mujahideen” that reportedly departed from the Anbar province, combined with the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq, indicates the presence of an organized Al Qaeda infrastructure within Iraq just a few months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The Anbar province is Iraq’s largest province and is located east and southeast of Baghdad. Anbar borders the neighboring states of Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, making it a popular transit point for the insurgents moving in and out of Iraq.
SOURCE
The Paper Trail
Newly released documents provide more evidence of Saddam's terror ties.
BY LAURIE MYLROIE
Sunday, April 2, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
After substantial prodding--including from The Wall Street Journal--the U.S. government has finally begun to release its captured Iraqi documents and is posting them at the Web site of the Army's Foreign Military Studies Office. This material will take considerable time to absorb and analyze, but it may yet contribute significantly to our understanding of the nature of the threat Saddam Hussein posed.
Most dramatically, an Iraqi intelligence report, apparently written in early 1997, describes Iraqi efforts to establish ties with various elements in the Saudi opposition, including Osama bin Laden. Until 1996, the Saudi renegade was based in Sudan, then ruled by Hassan Turabi's National Islamic Front. One of Iraq's few allies, Sudan served as an intermediary between Baghdad and bin Laden, as well as other Islamic radicals. On Feb. 19, 1995, an Iraqi intelligence agent met with bin Laden in Khartoum.
Bin Laden asked for two things: to carry out joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia and to broadcast the speeches of a radical Saudi cleric. Iraq agreed to the latter, but apparently not the former, at least as far as the author of this report knew. Notably, the report also states, "We are working at the present time to activate this relationship through new channels."
This one report hints at the extensive international presence that the Iraqi Intelligence Service maintained. Iraq's ambassadors to Sudan and Yemen were intelligence agents, suggesting that those two countries were major centers of IIS activity. The report also mentions IIS stations in Islamabad, New Delhi and New York.
Another newly released document bears the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It is a flier from the "Committee for Arab Liaison with the Islamic Emirate" (i.e., Afghanistan) for recruiting volunteers in Iraq to fight in Afghanistan. It explains that the "Arab brothers" who wish to go there should send a written proposal "so that we can know him and his needs." Zarqawi is among six people listed as individuals to contact.
A little pride in the troops from the lefties!?
What the hell are you smoking, Mark!
Monkeys would fly out of my butt before you'll get any sense of pride in our troops from the lefties...
On the other hand, until I see the medical examiner's photos of Musab al-Zarqawi, this "news" means nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
It's like being "almost pregnant." You either are or you are not. You either got him or you didn't. There's nothing to be gained by talking about "the one that got away."
I have no doubt that our Special Ops are trying to capture this punk terrorists. But I don't want to hear about it until they've got his sorry ass...