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Interesting item from the March 26, 2008 edition of the Washington Post:
- Saddam's Spies: Part Two
Part One is HERE. From this December 30, 2008 article in the Washington Post: Another Man Charged With Secretly Aiding Saddam Hussein Federal authorities yesterday charged an Iraqi-born man who allegedly worked at Iraq's embassy in Washington with...
- Saddam's Spies
Excerpt from the December 23, 2008 local-news section of the Washington Post: Man Admits to Secret Work for Iraq's Hussein Md. Restaurateur, Identified in Captured Documents, Helped Intelligence Service Beginning in 1980s A 67-year-old Iraqi who...
- Saddam & Al Qaeda, Details, Schmetails......
Courtesy of Powerline, it appears the media jumped the gun and skipped the details, regarding the Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda link. Not surprising, since it fits into MSM's anti-war agenda. He quotes The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes: A new Pentagon...
- Opening Other People's Mail
...can be an educational experience, as a recent ABC News article about some of the documents we captured in Iraq reveals. Let's see what's inside those envelopes, shall we? (All emphases from the article.) "U.S. War Plan Leaked to Iraqis by Russian...
- Msm Covers Saddam Documents
Yes, never say they aren't reporting on the things being uncovered as the Saddam documents trove is being translated: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to...
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Who Was Wahhab?
Interesting item from the March 26, 2008 edition of the Washington Post:
Media reports on the Pentagon's five-volume translation of truckloads of Saddam Hussein- era documents tended to skim the surface, picking the highlights and the obvious, such as the absence of evidence of an "operational relationship" between Hussein and al-Qaeda.True or not, the bit of information insults Wahhabists, so I posted it here for amusement and/or discussion.
"By the middle of Volume 5" of the tome prepared for the military's Joint Forces Command, Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists tells us, "most people will have entered an altered state of consciousness." But not the eagle-eyed folks over at the federation, who sifted through the review and came up with a stunner.
It's in a 50-page analysis by Iraq's crack military intelligence crew that "disparages the austerely conservative Wahhabi school of Islam by claiming that its eighteenth century founder, Ibn 'Abd al Wahhab, had ancestors who were Jews," the FAS reported.
Talk about burying the lead! Who cares about warmed-over stuff about Saddam and Osama? Now, this is news.
The shocking Iraqi analysis says that Ibn 'Abd al Wahhab's grandfather's true name was not "Sulayman" but "Shulman." (Of course! The Saudi Shulmans! ) "Tawran," a source often cited by Iraqi intelligence in the reports as an expert, "confirms that Sulayman, the grandfather of the sheikh, is (Shulman); he is Jew from the merchants of the city of Burstah in Turkey, he had left it and settled in Damascus, grew his beard, and wore the Muslim turban, but was thrown out for being voodoo," the Iraqi document says, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency translation.
The FAS said the analysis by the Air Defense Security System of Iraq's General Military Intelligence Directorate was "not a very reliable guide to Islamic or Jewish history, though it may explain something about Iraq's air defenses." Indeed.
- Saddam's Spies: Part Two
Part One is HERE. From this December 30, 2008 article in the Washington Post: Another Man Charged With Secretly Aiding Saddam Hussein Federal authorities yesterday charged an Iraqi-born man who allegedly worked at Iraq's embassy in Washington with...
- Saddam's Spies
Excerpt from the December 23, 2008 local-news section of the Washington Post: Man Admits to Secret Work for Iraq's Hussein Md. Restaurateur, Identified in Captured Documents, Helped Intelligence Service Beginning in 1980s A 67-year-old Iraqi who...
- Saddam & Al Qaeda, Details, Schmetails......
Courtesy of Powerline, it appears the media jumped the gun and skipped the details, regarding the Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda link. Not surprising, since it fits into MSM's anti-war agenda. He quotes The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes: A new Pentagon...
- Opening Other People's Mail
...can be an educational experience, as a recent ABC News article about some of the documents we captured in Iraq reveals. Let's see what's inside those envelopes, shall we? (All emphases from the article.) "U.S. War Plan Leaked to Iraqis by Russian...
- Msm Covers Saddam Documents
Yes, never say they aren't reporting on the things being uncovered as the Saddam documents trove is being translated: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to...