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Command Post - CNS News Publishes Iraqi WMD Documents Online

Back on October 4, 2004, Cybercast News reported:

“Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein’s regime to work with some of the world’s most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam’s government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.”

I invoked Den Beste’s famous “7 day rule” and held off on this one over at Winds of Change.NET. Meanwhile, CNS News has been making them available to “credentialed news organizations and counter-terrorism experts”. Interestingly, Rathergate has made many of them interested but gun shy.

Now CNS has taken the logical next step and made the documents available to the public - and hence the blogosphere.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200410\NAT20041011a.html

We welcome any thoughts from readers with expertise in Arabic, Iraq, document authentication, et. al. Please leave a comment, or get in touch with Robi Sen (“robi@”, here at windsofchange.net) who has been following this story and is coordinating our investigative efforts. If you have pointers to other reports re: these documents, contact Robi and Cc: “joe@…” so I can add them.