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March 16, 2006Iraq docs and our airpower releasedYou can look at them yourself. Stephen Hayes must be happy. The Pentagon Web site described that document this way: ‘2002 Iraqi Intelligence Correspondence concerning the presence of al-Qaida Members in Iraq. Correspondence between IRS members on a suspicion, later confirmed, of the presence of an Al-Qaeda terrorist group. Moreover, it includes photos and names.’ In 2002, AlQaeda was in Iraq. Michael Barone says the Democrats do not want to hear that. Commenter #17 at Lucianne.com provides a translation to document CMPC-2003-001488 Document CMPC-2003-001488 - Presidency of the Republic Intelligence Apparatus To the respectful Mr. M.A.M Subject: Information Our source in Afghanistan No 11002 (for information about him see attachment 1) provided us with information that that Afghani Consul Ahmad Dahestani (for information about him see attachment 2) told him the following: 1. That Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan are in contact with Iraq and it that previously a group from Taliban and Osama Bin Laden group visited Iraq. 2. That America has proof that the government of Iraq and Osama Bin Laden group have shown cooperation to hit target within America. 3. That in case it is proven the involvement of Osama Bin Laden group and the Taliban in these destructive operations it is possible that American will conduct strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. 4. That the Afghani Consul heard about the subject of Iraq relation with Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran. 5. In light of this we suggest to write to the Commission of the above information. Please view… Yours… With regards Signature:……, Initials : A.M.M, 15/9/2001 Rusty Shackleford thinks he spots a familiar face. The WaPo puts the most boring headline on the story which indicates to me that the documents do not hurt, and may actually help, the president. If they could hurt him, the headline would reflect that. Btw - we’ve launched a a big-time assualt on the Iraqi insurgents. About time. Oh, and President Bush has reaffirmed his policy. The press seems annoyed that he’s not backing down. Michelle says there will be a presser at 1:30 on all of this. Mac’s Mind says the release - the journalistically QUIET release - of these papers will be the blast heard ’round the world. We’ll see. It seems to me the press will do all they can to spike or downplay anything really newsworthy. UPDATE: Alexandra at All Things Beautiful has a nice round up on the air assault in Iraq. Vanderleun says they work by night, too Alexandra writes: Somehow I think the President is trying to tell us something, launching the largest air attack on Iraq in three years, on the same day and almost simultaneously giving the zero tolerance message in the national security report, following along the lines of Israel, against terrorism. Yes, that’s pretty much what I’ve been thinking all day. 1) release Iraqi documents My prediction: we’ll be out of Iraq sooner than anyone thinks, and the press has been sort of rope-a-doped today. Instead of reporting on Iraqi documents, his commitment and the air assault, they are fixating on…polls. He’s making the press look very, very bad. All they can do in response is continue to try to foment doubt about every move he makes…well, actually, they COULD report on the news…but they’d rather talk about polls and motives and political strategy. Very sad. http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/03/16/iraq-documents-released/trackback/ 2 Responses to “Iraq docs and our airpower released” |
March 16th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Miscellaneous Thursday…
Please go see the Anchoress’ roundup.
March 18th, 2006 at 3:21 am
My prediction: we’ll be out of Iraq sooner than anyone thinks, and the press has been sort of rope-a-doped today. Instead of reporting on Iraqi documents, his commitment and the air assault, they are fixating on…polls. He’s making the press look very, very bad. All they can do in response is continue to try to foment doubt about every move he makes…well, actually, they COULD report on the news…but they’d rather talk about polls and motives and political strategy. Very sad.
Well, hey, you just gotta give them time for the reporters to file back the stories:
Time.com
On Scene: How Operation Swarmer Fizzled
Posted Friday, Mar. 17, 2006
Four Black Hawk helicopters landed in a wheat field and dropped off a television crew, three photographers, three print reporters and three Iraqi government officials right into the middle of Operation Swarmer….
U.S. troops on the ground had netted 48 suspected insurgents, 17 of which had already been cleared and released. The area, explained the officials, has long been suspected of being used as a base for insurgents operating in and around Samarra, the city north of Baghdad where the bombing of a sacred shrine recently sparked a wave of sectarian violence….
In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What’s more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders.
The operation, which doubled the population of the flat farmland in one single airlift, [i.e., there were only 1500 people there in the first place!] was initiated by intelligence from Iraq security forces.
Here’s the link: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1174448,00.html