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Foreign Press Foundation -Henk Ruyssenaars - 20.03.2003 16:47

PERISCOPE WARNING : In August, the Pentagon operated National Defense University in Washington, held a secret meeting to consider how best to go about disarming Iraq. See also the New York Times : "Teams of Experts to Hunt Iraq Arms" ?


 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/19/international/middleeast/19WEAP.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=top

FPF/The Netherlands - According to European media reports it is understood
the Bush administration has started deploying mobile labs and new
specialized teams of intelligence officials and disarmament experts, to try
to locate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction. The problem being that -
according to UN weapons inspection reports - after twenty years of war, and
close to ten years of UN searching with the best US-equipment available, the
arms have nearly all been destroyed. If necessary, the reports claim, all
kinds of arms and documents will be planted, while the top secret action is
justified by referring to "the interest of the Nation".

According to the NYT's article concerning the hunt for those weapons :

"Though the White House officially blessed the outlines of the mission about
eight weeks ago, planning for the hunt began at the Pentagon last July,
officials said.

In August, the Pentagon operated National Defense University in Washington
held a secret meeting to consider how best to go about disarming Iraq. In
September, former inspectors of the old Unscom met with officials from
several Pentagon offices, including the Central Command in Tampa, Fla., to
discuss the lessons learned from the inspectors' eight year effort to disarm
Iraq of unconventional weapons." (end quote NYT)

After months of relatively fruitless international inspections, the
discovery of such arms is 'an absolute must', officials said, 'because how
can we otherwise vindicate the US administration's decision, to go to war to
disarm Iraq, if indeed nothing is 'found' ? The US government can't, and
will not take that risk.

The failure to find WMD's would leave the U.S. administration vulnerable to
the world's charges that it had started a war needlessly, like most of the
world seems to think. So evidence - which can be used in the PR war -
absolutely has to be produced and brought into Iraq unseen. Media reports
have it that the above mentioned teams in covert 'Psyops', will bring INTO
Iraq all kinds of ABC weapons - in mobile labs and closed containers - to
"prove" earlier US-accusations. "Proof c.q. evidence", concerning Iraq's ABC
weapons as named in the american accusations and allegations, will now be
secretly and certainly available.

Highest on the priority list of caches to be produced and found, is evidence
to repair the outrageous blunder with Powell's fake documents* concerning
Iraq's nuclear capability. The as 'non authentic' by the UN Council
described documents, were offered by Secretary of State Colin Powell to
convince all members of the UN-Security Council of Saddam Hussein's
dangerous nuclear plans.

Powell's 'documents' were openly during the UN session described as fake
documents, as confirmed by UN- and IAEA-nuclear specialist and disarmament
inspection leader El Baradei, of the United Nations. The FBI says it
investigates the matter.* It should be expected that small nuclear "devices"
will be smuggled in and "found". Of course in the presence of an Armada of
International Press Agencies and correspondents. Socalled 'CNN - evidence';
and most media will - like mostly without further checking - take care of
the rest of also this Psyop.

Truth has been again and as usual, the first victim in this - according to
earlier existing international law - illegal war.

FPF / Henk Ruyssenaars
in The Netherlands.

Holland at present has a pro-Bush government of Quislings;
but, 84% of the population abhors the war;
NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !

Pls. see also :

* FBI probes fake papers on Iraq :

 http://www.msnbc.com/news/884624.asp?0sl=-10&cp1=1

How it's done : 'Psychological Operations"

Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign
audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and
ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and
individuals. Full story-URL :  http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/index.htm


 **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any
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Foundation under fair use without profit or payment to those who have
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 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent
journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and
A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America,
(Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East.
While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia
for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too. Because of journalistic
research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different governments in East and West.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
 fpf@chello.nl








 

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HR - FPF - 06.06.2003 09:35

L.S. !

Bij het gebruik van 'kritisch' materiaal gaat dikwijls de link ineens kunstjes vertonen :

"File not found" staat er dan, en soms wordt er een andere pagina op die URL gezet. Want dit staat er bij bovenstaande 'link' naar het FBI artikel :
Our Web servers cannot find the page or file you asked for:
 http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/884624.asp
The link you followed may be broken or expired.
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Met een boardreader is het soms wél terug te vinden :

 http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/03/APWire140303.html

En zekerheidshalve dus maar de txt hieronder :

Friday, March 14, 2003

 

Senator Seeks FBI Probe of Iraq Documents

Investigation sought over faked administration documents on Iraq

Associated Press

WASHINGTON-- The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the FBI on Friday to investigate forged documents the Bush administration used as evidence against Saddam Hussein and his military ambitions in Iraq.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said he was uneasy about a possible campaign to deceive the public about the status of Iraq's nuclear program.

An investigation should "at a minimum help to allay any concerns" that the government was involved in the creation of the documents to build support for administration policies, Rockefeller wrote in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Secretary of State Colin Powell has denied the U.S. government had any hand in creating the false documents.

"It came from other sources," Powell told a House committee Thursday. "We were aware of this piece of evidence, and it was provided in good faith to the inspectors."
FBI dodges comment

Rockefeller asked the FBI to determine the source of the documents, the sophistication of the forgeries, the motivation of those responsible, why intelligence agencies didn't recognize them as forgeries and whether they are part of a larger disinformation campaign.

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The documents indicated that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, the West African nation that is the third-largest producer of mined uranium, Niger's largest export. The documents had been provided to U.S. officials by a third country, which has not been identified.

A U.S. government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear who first created the documents. The official said American suspicions remain about an Iraq-Niger uranium connection because of other, still-credible evidence that the official refused to specify.

In December, the State Department used the information to support its case that Iraq was lying about its weapons programs. But on March 7, Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. Security Council that the documents were forgeries.
Deception campaign by "foreign government' suspected

Rockefeller said U.S. worries about Iraqi nuclear weapons were not based primarily on the documents, but "there is a possibility that the fabrication of these documents may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq."

At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Thursday, Powell said the State Department had not participated "any way in any falsification."

Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, the committee's top Democrat, noted a Washington Post report that said a foreign government might have been conducting a deception campaign to win support for military action against Iraq. When Obey asked Powell if he could say which country that was, Powell replied, "I can't with confidence."

The Niger documents marked the second time that ElBaradei has challenged evidence presented by the United States meant to illustrate Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He also rejected the U.S. position that aluminum tubes imported by Iraq were intended to make nuclear bombs.

ElBaradei has said his inspectors have found no evidence that Saddam has revived its nuclear weapons program.
© Copyright 2003 Associated Press.

Related file on this website:

Jacob G. Hornberger, The Rot at the Center of the Empire
Dossier on the origins of anti-Semitism
FBI probes fake papers on Iraq : Investigation into role of foreign intelligence service
Pat Buchanan charges: A cabal seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests
Outrage as US Congressman Moran (Virginia) says Jews are Pushing for War (Washington Post) | Moran "plans to resign"
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Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
 fpf@chello.nl

The Dutch author worked for many decades for international A/V media as foreign correspondent,
of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East.
Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

HR

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