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Iraqi Recordings Could Provide WMD Information
A congressional intelligence committee is studying audio recordings between deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other top former regime officials in an attempt to uncover more information about prewar Iraq’s suspected WMD capabilities, the New York Sun reported today (see GSN, Feb. 3). Former federal prosecutor John Loftus provided a copy of the 12 hours of recordings to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Loftus said he initially acquired the recordings from a former U.S. military intelligence analyst and that they “will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important — and controversial — weapons of mass destruction questions.” Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has met with former Iraqi air force Gen. Georges Sada, who has said that civilian aircraft were used to transfer what appeared to be weapons of mass destruction to Syria just before the U.S.-led invasion of his country (see GSN, Jan. 26). Hoekstra is now interviewing Iraqis who allegedly took part in the WMD transfer. He has also asked National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to declassify 35,000 boxes of Iraqi documents, the Sun reported. Hoekstra said he is frustrated with the U.S. intelligence community’s lack of interest in the issue. “I talked to one person relatively high up in [National Intelligence Directorate], and I asked him about [Sada’s claims] and asked are they going to follow up, and he looked at me and said, ‘No we don’t think so,’” Hoekstra said. “I am trying to find out if our postwar intelligence was as bad as our prewar intelligence,” he added (Eli Lake, New York Sun, Feb. 7).
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