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    Default Tapes Reveal WMD Plans by Saddam

    13 March Washington Times - Tapes Reveal WMD plans by Saddam by Rowan Scarborough.

    Audiotapes of Saddam Hussein and his aides underscore the Bush administration's argument that Baghdad was determined to rebuild its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction once the international community had tired of inspections and left the Iraqi dictator alone.

    In addition to the captured tapes, U.S. officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-1990s.

    The documents also speak of burying prohibited missiles, according to a government official familiar with the declassification process.

    But it is not clear whether Baghdad did what the documents indicate, said the U.S. official, who asked not to be named...

    The quote is from roughly 12 hours of taped conversations that unexpectedly landed in the lap of Bill Tierney, a former Army warrant officer and Arabic speaker who was translating for the FBI tapes unearthed in Iraq after the invasion.

    Mr. Tierney made a copy, which he provided to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee in turn gave a copy to intelligence analysts who authenticated the voice as that of Saddam.

    Mr. Tierney said that the quote from the Saddam aide, and scores of others, show Saddam was rebuilding his once-ample weapons stocks.

    "The tapes show that Saddam rebuilt his program and successfully prevented the U.N. from finding out about it," he said.

    There also exists a quote from the dictator himself, who ordered the tapings to keep a record of his inner-sanctum discussions, that Mr. Tierney thinks shows Saddam planned to use a proxy to attack the United States.

    "Terrorism is coming ... with the Americans," Saddam said. "With the Americans, two years ago, not a long while ago, with the English I believe, there was a campaign ... with one of them, that in the future there would be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." ...

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    Default An interesting finale...

    Just in case anyone was interested in the 550 metric tons of Yellowcake...

    From CBC.ca

    Uranium shipped to Montreal from Iraq in top secret mission
    Last Updated: Saturday, July 5, 2008 | 7:27 PM ET
    The Associated Press

    The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.

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    Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat...
    Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
    Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
    Senior Research Fellow,
    The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
    Carleton University
    http://marctyrrell.com/

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