| Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| PNAC and the Niger Documents (a work in progress) |
I originally sent this around to some friends of mine on Oct. 26 (last Wednesday), but have updated some things. I thought it should be here, so just like that, here it is.
from:
"The probe is far from being at an end. According to this reporter's sources, Fitzgerald approached the judge in charge of the case and asked that a new grand jury be empanelled. The old grand jury, which has been sitting for two years, will expire on October 28."
and this from the same entry/blog/article
"Thanks to a letter of February, 2004 which Fitzgerald asked for and obtained expanded authority, the Special Prosecutor is now in possession of an Italian parliament investigation into the forged Niger documents alleging Iraq's interest in purchasing Niger uranium, sources said.
They said that Fitzgerald is looking into such individuals as former CIA agent, Duane Claridge, military consultant to the Iraqi National Congress, Gen. Wayne Downing, another military consultant for INC, and Francis Brooke, head of INC's Washington office in an effort to determine if they played any role in the forgeries or their dissemination. Also included in this group is long-time neoconservative Michael Ledeen, these federal sources said."
About the investigation in Italy regarding the (forged Niger/Uranium documents). These documents were dismissed by the CIA at least 3 times, yet then Deputy National Security Advisor (current National Security Advisor) Steve Hadley (said to be a target in the CIA leak investigation) met with Italian Military Intelligence (SISMI) Chief Nicolo Pollari regarding those documents.
from:
"Nicolo Pollari is the head of Italian military intelligence, SISMI. The Repubblica article claims that over the course of 2002 Pollari -- knowing the documents were fakes -- made repeated attempts to get them into the DC information stream by going around the CIA, which discounted them as fakes. This was to satisfy the expressed needs of Bush administration officials who were searching for some information to validate their claims about an Iraqi nuclear program."
It is widely speculated that these documents were in fact created by the Iraqi National Congress. The Iraqi National Congress is headed by Ahmed Chalabi, a former Iraqi exile, educated in the US, who returned to Iraq shortly after the first Gulf War, to help the Kurds fight Sadam. He is currently the deputy Prime Minister and interim Oil Minister in Iraq. The INC, and Chalabi, are favorites of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
PNAC, established in 1997, is a conservative think tank chaired by Weekly Standard editor William Kristol. Its past and present members include such notables as Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, and William Bennett (he of "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down" fame.)
and here is where it gets really good.
In the PNAC project paper "Rebuilding America's Defenses" they describe the need for a "Pearl Harbor-type event" (or possibly a 9/11-type series of events) to generate support for the "Democratization" of the Middle East, beginning, of course, with regime change in Iraq.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.
see also this for a summary of the paper.
So you see, Iraq does have something to do with the events of 9/11, just not in the manner in which has been eluded to by the Bush administration. |
posted by MindSquash the Brain Worm @ 12:07 PM   |
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