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May 03, 2003
Magic 8 Ball, should we search Iraqi intelligence offices?
A few days ago, a British newspaper found a document linking Al-Qaeda with the former Hussein regime in Iraq. A reporter found it laying in the rubble of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence agency. It detailed a week long summit between Iraqi intelligence a representative of Bin Laden, with hotel arrangements and such. [I wrote about this previously.]
A few people doubted the authenticity of the document. That may be a possibility, though I find it pretty unlikely. Beyond anything else, it would be foolhardy and risky to absolutely forge such a document. The likelihood of being busted for it would be pretty high, and the downside too great to contemplate. Heads would roll. My best guess is that it is authentic.
The question no one has asked, however, is how it is that some schlub from a newspaper got to be the one to find it? Now, there may be all kinds of juicy documents and tidbits for journalists all over that danged country, but this was Iraqi intelligence.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but offices of Iraqi intelligence services should have long since been gone over with a fine tooth comb by allied intelligence. They might conceivably want to take a couple of journalists with cameras along to document the chain of evidence or some such, but the CIA should have gone over that building pretty much stone by stone.
Why in hell would there be any documents laying around there for some random journalist to find? Enquiring minds want to know.
As a good Libertarian, I used to really suspect the intelligence community just on the basis of civil liberties issues- but I had the idea that they generally got the job done, even if they were somewhat corrupt. Now I'm getting serious doubts about them getting the job done. They didn't see 9/11 coming at us. They don't seem up to speed on finding WMDs, some of which would seem almost certain to be there.
OK, those are pretty tricky tasks. I may not have been able to do any better, hard telling. But would it take a flippin' PhD to know to throughly search intelligence offices for documents, right away?
posted by Al at 5/03/2003 03:39:00 AM
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