What Saddam's son-in-law said to the UN long time ago.

[madfloridian]

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.html

This is from February 2003, and some of the links may be outdated. There is a link to the full transcript of Kamel's interview uncovered by Glen Rangwala,the Cambridge University analyst who in early February revealed that Tony Blair's "intelligence dossier" was plagiarized from a student thesis.

Well worth the read. It was good to find I was remembering correctly. There has been so much pro-war stuff lately, that we tend to forget what was going on before the invasion. Here is more on Hussein Kamel that came out before the invasion of Iraq. He was just one voice that was never heard when the media starting the drums of war.

Here is a pdf file of an article at MSNBC (mirrored to this site), no longer available. I have it on my hard drive, but can only quote portions.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Kamel022403.pdf

SNIP.."March 3 issue - Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi
official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein’s inner circle,
told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors
in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, Iraq destroyed
all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the
missiles to deliver them.
KAMEL WAS SADDAM Hussein’s son-in-law.

SNIP..."Kamel was interrogated in separate sessions by the CIA, Britain’s M.I.6 and a trio from the
United Nations, led by the inspection team’s head, Rolf Ekeus. Newsweek has obtained the
notes of Kamel’s U.N. debrief, and verified that the document is authentic. Newsweek has
also learned that Kamel told the same story to the CIA and M.I.6. (The CIA did not respond
to a request for comment.)
The notes of the U.N. interrogation -- a three-hour stretch one August evening in 1995 --
show that Kamel was a gold mine of information. He had a good memory and, piece by
piece, he laid out the main personnel, sites and progress of each WMD program. Kamel was
a manager -- not a scientist or engineer -- and, sources say, some of his technical assertions
were later found to be faulty. (A military aide who defected with Kamel was apparently a
more reliable source of tech-nical data. This aide backed Kamel’s assertions about the
destruction of WMD stocks.) But, overall, Kamel’s information was "almost embarrass-ing,
it was so extensive," Ekeus recalled -- ...."

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. Nice post

I had nearly forgotten about the plagiarized student paper. Amazing how these stories have been "lost" by the media outlets.

[Melinda]

2. Have you posted this on the candidate blogs or sent it in?

Those who would be our next President should be pushing these facts in front of the American public to reinforce how the current mal-administration lied to us to justify their immoral war.

Where has the opposition to war gone?

Some want a General
Some want more troops
Some want a draft.

And some of us want our troops home.