Monday, July 17, 2006

More tidbits from the captured Iraqi documents

Again, a grateful tip of the hat to Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters.
He's covering this issue like nobody else I know of.

First, since I have yet to do so, here is the link to the government website authorized to post the documents. The documents are typically posted in Arabic, then in English after translation has been completed. Under this arrangement, private individuals have the opportunity to translate the documents.
The US government has been marking about 1/3 of the documents as "classified" thus they will not be released to the public.
One wonders how they know to mark them as secret prior to allowing their release, of course. Perhaps they are scanned for keywords prior to being presented to the public.

Foreign Military Studies Office
Joint Reserve Intelligence Center


Links to recent notable summaries at CQ:
The Saddam-Osama Connection
Choosy IIS Agents Choose ... CNN
Loose Lips Generate Paperwork ... And Reveal Iraqi Malfeasance
Foreign Intel Had Identified WMD Sites

The first one is somewhat older than the latter three, but many still believe that Iraq could not have cooperated with bin Laden because of ideological differences so it's worth including.

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