Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
The American who led the hunt for Iraq's missing weapons of mass
destruction has revealed that the investigation was cut short after he
was targeted by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the militant leader in an attack
that left two people dead. The head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles
Duelfer, has reported that his investigation into the possible
transfer of WMD to Syria had been wound up because of the "declining
security situation".
But, in an interview with The Independent, Mr Duelfer said that
Zarqawi had claimed responsibility for the car-bomb attack on his
convoy on 6 November 2004. "A car-bomb tried to get me and my follow
car," Mr Duelfer said. "Two of my guards were killed and one was badly
wounded. My hearing's not been right since."
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein. The report contradicted assertions by
Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of Defence, who claimed after the
war that the lack of WMD in Iraq might be explained this way.
Mr Duelfer reported just before the US presidential election last
November that his 1,500-strong group had found "no evidence" that
Saddam had possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. His
dossier demolished claims by the British government and Bush
administration issued before the Iraq war that Saddam's weapons were a
threat to the US and Britain.
Mr Duelfer denied suggestions - including from an Australian
colleague, the weapons inspector Rod Barton - that he had been
subjected to political pressure by the US or British authorities. He
confirmed that John Scarlett, the head of MI6, had mentioned some
"nuggets" that could be put into his interim report, issued in March
last year. "I looked at them, and didn't include them," he said.
But he added that he did not construe such suggestions to be political
pressure. "I got a lot of suggestions from governments with big
intelligence operations. It would be foolish of me not to look at
them.
"There was political interest, but that's not the same as political
pressure," he said. "There was a desire on the part of capitals to
find WMD. It would have made everyone's life much easier. But the view
was: let the chips fall where they may."
Asked what he had achieved in his 18 months in Iraq, Mr Duelfer said
he had built up a comprehensive picture of Saddam's strategic intent.
He believes that given the opportunity, which would have come with the
lifting of UN sanctions, the Iraqi dictator was poised to resume his
banned weapons activities. "I think there's a decent set of data on
the table." After hours of debriefing more than 100 Iraqi scientists
and experts, "I think I understand the motivation of the regime."
He explained that his attempt to comprehend the workings of Saddam's
regime had led him to the oil-for-food scandal. In his report, he
contended that Saddam's government siphoned more than $2bn (£1.05bn)
in illicit bribes and kickbacks from companies that traded with Iraq
through the UN's humanitarian oil-for-food scheme. Six investigations
are now under way into the scandal.
Mr Duelfer, who backed the invasion of Iraq, said his team had drawn
up a timeline of international events in order to understand the
mindset of the isolated Iraqi leader. "We wanted to know what was he
looking at when he made this or that decision, for example, going to
war with Iran," he said.
Asked why he had not gone to such trouble to understand the mindset of
the Iraqi dictator in the 1990s, when he was deputy head of the UN
inspection agency Unscom, Mr Duelfer argued that Iraq's obstruction of
the arms monitors had not been conducive to such an approach.
"The patterns of behaviour reinforced assumptions," he said. He also
recognised that because of the lack of relations between America and
Iraq in the 1990s, the lack of direct intelligence from the ground was
also an impediment.
"There was a systemic problem in the intelligence community," he
noted. "What I think I missed was how high Saddam's priority was to
get out of sanctions. From 1991, it was the number one priority."
Mr Duelfer has retired as a weapons inspector but will write an
account of his time in Iraq. His next project is as consultant to a
mission planning to resume manned flights to the Moon.
* Gunmen have assassinated Lamia Abed Kha- dawi, a member of Iraq's
National Assembly. Ms Khadawi, who belonged to the caretaker Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi's party, was shot dead outside her house in
eastern Baghdad. She is the first person in the 275-seat assembly to
be killed.
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28 Apr 2005 09:24:08 AM |
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up, Bitchtits. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
The American who led the hunt for Iraq's missing weapons of mass
destruction has revealed that the investigation was cut short after he
was targeted by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the militant leader in an attack
that left two people dead. The head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles
Duelfer, has reported that his investigation into the possible
transfer of WMD to Syria had been wound up because of the "declining
security situation".
But you okeep telling us it's getting better over there Tony! Are you...
WRONG?
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein.
See?
Mr Duelfer reported just before the US presidential election last
November that his 1,500-strong group had found "no evidence" that
Saddam had possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. His
dossier demolished claims by the British government and Bush
administration issued before the Iraq war that Saddam's weapons were a
threat to the US and Britain.
See?
How's the lawsuit going by the way, Fat Tone? Found a no-win, no-fee lawyer
who'll take your case on yet?
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28 Apr 2005 11:32:50 AM |
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Tommy Boy wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Also, if there was nothing to find, why did Zarqawi target him for
death?
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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29 Apr 2005 02:21:44 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Tommy Boy wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Wrong. He said there was no evidence, Bitchtits.
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein.
See?
Mr Duelfer reported just before the US presidential election last
November that his 1,500-strong group had found "no evidence" that
Saddam had possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. His
dossier demolished claims by the British government and Bush
administration issued before the Iraq war that Saddam's weapons were a
threat to the US and Britain.
See?
How's the lawsuit going by the way, Fat Tone? Found a no-win, no-fee lawyer
who'll take your case on yet?
Also, if there was nothing to find, why did Zarqawi target him for
death?
Tony
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29 Apr 2005 09:54:22 AM |
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Tommy The Clueless Clown wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Tommy Boy wrote:
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Wrong. He said there was no evidence,
Wrong again you Clueless *****!
Here's the article that you avoided in the other thread, you avoided
it because it showed that I was right in my claim, and that as usual
you are wrong.
Now I want to see how you try to spin your way out of being wrong yet
again.
CIA can't rule out WMD move to Syria
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The CIA's chief weapons inspector said he cannot rule out the
possibility that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were secretly
shipped to Syria before the March 2003 invasion, citing "sufficiently
credible" evidence that WMDs may have been moved there.
Inspector Charles Duelfer, who heads the Iraq Survey Group (ISG),
made the findings in an addendum to his final report filed last year.
He said the search for WMD in Iraq -- the main reason President Bush
went to war to oust Saddam Hussein -- has been exhausted without
finding such weapons. Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological
weapons in the early 1990s.
But on the question of Syria, Mr. Duelfer did not close the books.
"ISG was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule
out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war,"
Mr. Duelfer said in a report posted on the CIA's Web site Monday
night.
He cited some evidence of a transfer. "Whether Syria received
military items from Iraq for safekeeping or other reasons has yet to
be determined," he said. "There was evidence of a discussion of
possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and
ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq,
including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of
the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit
further investigation."
But Mr. Duelfer said he was unable to complete that aspect of the
probe because "the declining security situation limited and finally
halted this investigation. The results remain inconclusive, but
further investigation may be undertaken when circumstances on the
ground improve."
Arguing against a WMD transfer to Syria, Mr. Duelfer said, was the
fact that all senior Iraqi detainees involved in Saddam's weapons
programs and security "uniformly denied any knowledge of residual WMD
that could have been secreted to Syria."
"Nevertheless," the inspector said, "given the insular and
compartmented nature of the regime, ISG analysts believed there was
enough evidence to merit further investigation."
He said that even if all leads are pursued someday, the ISG may
never be able to finally determine whether WMDs were taken across the
border. "Based on the evidence available at present, ISG judged that
it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to
Syria took place," his report stated. "However, ISG was unable to rule
out unofficial movement of limited WMD-related materials."
Speculation on WMDs in Syria was fueled by the fact that satellite
images picked up long lines of trucks waiting to cross the border into
Syria before the coalition launched the invasion. Mr. Duelfer
previously had reported that Syria was a major conduit for materials
entering Iraq that were banned by the United Nations.
Saddam placed such importance on illicit trade with Syria that he
dispatched Iraqi Intelligence Service agents to various border
crossings to supervise border agents, and, in some cases, to shoo them
away, senior officials told The Washington Times last year.
Today, U.S. officials charge that Syria continues to harbor Saddam
loyalists who are directing and financing the insurgency in Iraq. The
Iraq-Syria relationship between two Ba'athist socialist regimes has
further encouraged speculation of weapons transfers.
Several senior U.S. officials have said since the invasion that
they thought WMD went to Syria.
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, the deputy commander of
U.S. Central Command during the war, said in his book, "Inside
CentCom," that intelligence reports pointed to WMD movement into
Syria.
In October, John A. Shaw, then the deputy undersecretary of
defense for international technology security, told The Times that
Russian special forces and intelligence troops worked with Saddam's
intelligence service to move weapons and material to Syria, Lebanon
and possibly Iran.
"The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," he
said.
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein.
See?
Mr Duelfer reported just before the US presidential election last
November that his 1,500-strong group had found "no evidence" that
Saddam had possessed chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. His
dossier demolished claims by the British government and Bush
administration issued before the Iraq war that Saddam's weapons were a
threat to the US and Britain.
See?
How's the lawsuit going by the way, Fat Tone? Found a no-win, no-fee lawyer
who'll take your case on yet?
Also, if there was nothing to find, why did Zarqawi target him for
death?
Tony
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29 Apr 2005 09:58:40 AM |
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Tommy The Clueless Clown wrote:
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Tommy Boy wrote:
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Wrong. He said there was no evidence,
Wrong again you Clueless *****!
Nope. here's the quote, Bitchtits:
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, ***concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein.***
You lose, again. Loser. your best tactic woudl probably be to run liek a
*****, like you did from Ricky.
How's the lawsuit going by the way, Fat Tone? Found a no-win, no-fee
lawyer
who'll take your case on yet?
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30 Apr 2005 11:01:29 AM |
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God are you Ever Stupid Tommy Boy
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Tommy The Clueless Clown wrote:
<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Tommy Boy wrote:
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Wrong. He said there was no evidence,
Wrong again you Clueless *****!
Nope. here's the quote,
Mr Duelfer, in an addendum to the final report which runs to thousands
of pages, ***concluded that there was no evidence that WMD had been moved
to Syria by Saddam Hussein.***
Guess you missed this part, Eh Stupid?
But on the question of Syria, Mr. Duelfer did not close the books.
"ISG was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule
out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war,"
Mr. Duelfer said in a report posted on the CIA's Web site Monday
night.
You're simply wrong (as usual) but lack the ability to admit it.
That Mr. Duelfer said the above is undeniable, yet you deny it,
proving you are what I have always said you were.
Tony
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01 May 2005 05:35:12 AM |
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Spat the Words
Tommy Boy wrote:
< > wrote in message
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
You can't rule out that aliens walk the the earth disguised
as humans, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence supporting
it. 'Paranoia, self-destroyer'.
Also, if there was nothing to find, why did Zarqawi target him for
death?
Tony
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28 Apr 2005 05:53:39 PM |
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wrote:
Tommy Boy wrote:
< > wrote in message
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Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
28 April 2005
Give it up,. The man said there's no evidence the WMD was shipepd
to Syrai, and there weren't any WMD to ship any way.
Wrong.
He said it couldn;'t be ruled out.
Maybe not, but the conclusion that there's no evidence to support such a
claim shows Rumsfeld to be a baldfaced liar.
Also, if there was nothing to find, why did Zarqawi target him for
death?
What was the point of hitting the WTC? It's all about how it plays to
the home crowd, not whether or not it's a strategic target. Killing a
high-profile American inspector would be perceived to be a big victory
to the "home team" of fellow fundies. It didn't matter that there was
nothing to hide - hitting an inspector would make for big brownie points.
Woods
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28 Apr 2005 11:42:31 AM |
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wrote:
Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
Moron.
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29 Apr 2005 08:28:43 AM |
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Marvin the Confused Clown wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
Moron.
Who? Chalres Duelfer?
He's the one who said it, Moron.
Tony
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| User: "tw" |
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29 Apr 2005 08:31:40 AM |
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<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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Marvin the Confused Clown wrote:
itwill@happen.com wrote:
Zarqawi attack on inspector cut short the hunt for WMD
Moron.
Who? Moron Tony?
He's the one who said it,
Exactly.
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