WMD: 'You have got to be kidding (from Asia Times)

[fsbooks]

This article is basically an interview of two US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agents from Iraq:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ04Ak02.html

Two DIA agents currently serving in Iraq, who also voiced bitterness about other aspects of US Iraq policy, spoke on condition of anonymity to Asia Times Online. The first, a 30-year veteran of the agency, complained that "the fixation on weapons is alienating intelligence staff", calling it an "obsession".
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There has been an increase in the willingness of intelligence officials from the CIA and DIA to speak out about their skepticism over Iraq WMD claims since the end of the war and the failure to discover any evidence of their existence. Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix also recently asserted that Iraq had had no chemical or biological program since 1998, and no nuclear program since the first Gulf war of 1991.
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This DIA agent, who has served as an interrogator at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the US holds alleged terrorists from Afghanistan called "illegal combatants", also rejected claims still alleged by the vice president that there was a relationship between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime in Iraq. "There were four Iraqis in Guantanamo. More people had British passports than Iraqi ones."

Ah, people with (some) values are coming out of the cold. I am hopeful for more.This DIA agent, who has served as an interrogator at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the US holds alleged terrorists from Afghanistan called "illegal combatants", also rejected claims still alleged by the vice president that there was a relationship between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime in Iraq. "There were four Iraqis in Guantanamo. More people had British passports than Iraqi ones."

[Old and In the Way]

1. I think Gitmo was always a prop for this administration and it's.

"War on Terror" (c)


Why bring them to Guantanamo? Why not isolated on some US island far away? Because they wanted Islamic "terrorists" physically close to the American people....almost like a zoo, I think.

So what have we really learned from these people? Who is in a position to see this intelligence? Why do I think it's 90% bullshit?

[NNN0LHI]

2. I think the tip that had us all looking for terrorists wearing scuba gear

...came out of there. Pretty sure we even went up to code orange for that?

Don

[LittleApple81]

3. Brain Fart....

I love this paragraph from the article:

He added that Bremer's predecessor Jay Garner was unfairly maligned due to inflated expectations. "Garner was friendly, approachable and personable. He got scapegoated by impatient people in DC. Now its DC politics and 'what's your stance on Israel'?" He also strongly criticized Bremer's decision to dismiss all 400,000 members of the Iraqi army. "It was a dogmatic and ideological brain fart idea to dissolve the military. They should have used them for security. They should have issued an order mobilizing the regular army and put them on highways." He ended his litany by adding that there was not even any cable television in the al-Rashid hotel where CPA staff were housed and they had to rely on short wave radio for news "they want to keep CPA staff as ignorant as possible".