On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:01:05PM -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote:
LONDON (AP) -- Documents discovered in the bombed out headquarters of Iraq's intelligence service provide evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, a newspaper reported Sunday.
My bet the purpose of the looting was to allow the planting of all kids of "documents" like this. If they were in a hurry to destroy documents, fire would have worked pretty damn well, not white out.
It's hard to believe that anyone with half a brain would be taken in by these "finds" -- there's absolutely no shred of a chain of evidence. Any "reporter" could have some Arabic writer cobble together any sort of document which they'd then claim to have "found" in the files. Or a "looter" planting it, as you say. And for that matter, why would the supposed authorites be allowing anyone at all to go rummaging thru the Iraqi files? There's no possible way the CIA or anyone else could have thoroughly looked them over since the fighting stopped, and you'd think they'd certainly want to. Why would they think anyone at all would believe this stuff? Of course, look at what they tried to pass off to the Security Council as "evidence." -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com