Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited.
They include:
AN underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad;
A SCUD assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea;
TWO underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons.
William Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector who has continued to gather information on Saddam's arsenal, said Mahmoud's information is "the smoking gun".
"Once the inspectors go to where Mahmoud has pointed them, then it's all over for Saddam," Tierney said.
Tierney, who has high-level contacts in Washington that go to the White House, said the information we publish today on Mahmoud's revelations "checks out, absolutely checks out".
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Time to send in Uncle Sam's finest it looks like...missles from North Korea though, damn this isn't cool. Hawkeye Pierce will have to go back to Korea.
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Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited.
Does not compute. Why tell the Israelis rather than the Americans? The average Iraqi doesn't like Amricans all that much but they regard the Israelis in a bout the same light as most people regard child rapists.
Why tell Israel? Because the Mossad has better penetration into Arab countries (including the infamous sleeper cells), offers better bribes, and has been known to do some seriously whack crap. It may be quite simple that the guy is being handled by a Mossad operative and not a CIA operative.
Why tell Isreal?
Simple Isreal got him and his family out of the country
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I haven't seen anything corraborating it on the major news outlets, either. At least not from a quick glance at Google News, which probably would have picked this up .
From what I read elsewhere, the story's by Gordon Thomas, a somewhat eccentric journalist/novelist who considers himself an expert on the intelligence community. All I know about him is he's Irish, so maybe some of the Europeans may have heard more about him and his reputation than I have.
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The fact that CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, Fox, NBC, and Reuters all have nothing on this says a lot more.
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The fact that CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, Fox, NBC, and Reuters all have nothing on this says a lot more.
After they found over 400 pages of Nuclear Documents in a Iraq Scientists house no one else reported it for over two weeks, a week after it was first reported
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Ted wrote:Why the hell would one of Saddams body guards leave?
They probably live in the best conditions of any body there.
They would be the most loyal of all Iraqis.
Perhaps being woken up a night and being asked if he's with or aginst "us" as a test of loyalties, wrong answer gets a bullet, made him want to switch jobs.
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