Thanks for the report of the situation on Planet Atmar.  Here on 
Earth, reality is somewhat different.

Earlier this month, a book with the title “Saddam’s Secrets” hit the 
bookstore shelves.  It is written by an Iraqi general called Georges 
Sada.  I bought a copy and I read it.  I actually had to stop and put 
down the book for a couple of days as one of the scenes he described 
was just a little too disturbing for me.

A couple of days later, I returned to the book and finished reading 
it.  The book is not very well written, but it has a lot of 
information and it answers most if not all the questions that people 
have been discussing about Iraq.  It’s almost as if the author had 
been listening on HP3000-L.

I highly recommend the book; if you want to know what was going on in 
Iraq before, during and after OIF, you will find the answers there.  
However, since these answers do not fit the thinking of the MSM (or 
Wirt's), this book has mainly been ignored by everyone.  It’s 
interesting to compare the big hoopla over a book by Joe Wilson, which 
has been demonstrated to be full of falsehoods, contradictions and 
innuendos, and the total indifference vis-à-vis Georges Sada and his 
book.

Some of the highlights:

1-	We had a discussion at some point here about whether the Baath 
party in Iraq was a Socialist party.  General Sada answers that very 
completely.  (Hint: It was.)
2-	We had a discussion about why the MSM, especially in Europe, 
was so biased against OIF.  General Sada explains the reason behind 
this biased reporting.  (Hint: Money.)
3-	We also had a discussion about the WMDs and where they went.  
General Sada explains exactly what they had, how they were to be used 
and how they were removed 6 weeks before OIF started.  Iraq was full 
of WMDs, and they had been used before and were going to be used again 
but at the last minute, there was a change of plans.  (Hint: read the 
book.)
4-	We had discussions about how Europe (France, Germany) and 
Russia had rearmed Saddam after the first Gulf War.  General Sada 
explains how this was done and how the Oil For Food program was used 
to procure all the weapons and how Saddam was simply waiting for the 
sanctions to be lifted to get his WMD programs going again, including 
nuclear research.  General Sada describes how the documents were 
hidden.
5-	We also talked about the role of the UN and the Oil-For-Food 
program.  General Sada goes into great detail about the corruption at 
the UN and how Saddam profited directly from this corruption, the Oil-
For-Food program and how the Iraqis would either circumvent or simply 
buy off any UN official.
6-	We talked about how US pilots were dropping highly accurate 
bombs on suspected terrorist households.  General Sada talks about 
this and explains why it is done and under Iraqi control.

The list goes on and on; within the pages of this book, virtually all 
the questions about Iraq and Saddam are answered.  But one thing that 
stuck with me was when General Sada described how the WMDs were to be 
used and how they were referred to in the written orders.  This part 
comes towards the end of the book, General Sada writes that the WMDs 
(usually chemical weapons,) were described in official documents, 
there were referred to as “special weapons,” or “special equipment” 
or “special” something.

Another event that occurred last week is the document dump from the US 
Government of about 2 million captured Iraqi and Afghan documents.  
These documents have been captured since the start of the war and were 
being closely held, but ignored by the government.  Only a small 
fraction has been translated so far and already this has proven to be 
highly illuminating.  In his book, General Sada never talks about the 
link between Al Qaeda and Saddam’s government; he was not privy to 
that aspect, but he talks about the WMDs.  The documents just released 
are the ones that contain information about the long-term links 
between Saddam’s Iraq and ben Ladin’s Al Qaeda.  It seems that Iraq 
was a training ground for terrorists, cycling through about 2000 
terrorists per year though its training program.  Al Qaeda and Iraq 
had been working with each other for over 10 years prior to OIF.

You can view a few of the translated documents at:

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm#iraq

The one that struck me is titled “Usage of Special Equipment.”  So, I 
clicked on it.  It describes the protocol to be used to attack Iranian 
agents in 1987.  But the words “special equipment” are used, just as 
General Sada described.

This document dump was mainly ignored or discounted by the MSM (and 
Wirt) last week, because it does not fit into their worldview.  
However, the documents are now being translated and we should be in 
for some interesting revelations over time.  The smaller magazines 
along with some blogs are doing the job that the MSM used to do.  
Already this morning I was reading about how Iraq trained terrorists 
at Salman Pak; this is the site where the airliner fuselage (Boeing 
727) sits on the ground.

The upshot of all this is that we now know what happened to the WMDs 
and where they were moved to and how.  And now we are starting to find 
out how Iraq was working with Al Qaeda and how they supported 
terrorism around the world.  More to come.

Denys


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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Third anniversary

Approaching the third anniversary of the unprovoked invasion of Iraq, 
following 2300 American dead and 30,000 to 100,000 Iraqi dead, and 
record deficits in 
the American budget, it's time to repeat this posting from a month 
before the 
invasion:
...

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