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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 06:25 AM
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Saddam’s foreign minister was CIA source: NBC
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WASHINGTON - In the period before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister Naji Sabri, was a secret paid source of the CIA, “NBC Nightly News” reported on Monday.

Citing unnamed current and former US intelligence officials, NBC said Sabri provided details of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be more accurate than CIA estimates.

Intelligence sources said Sabri was paid more than $100,000 through an intermediary in a Sept. 2002 deal brokered by the French, NBC reported.

Sabri may have thought he was working with the French, but some US intelligence officials believe he knew it was the CIA, NBC said.

The CIA questioned Sabri through a go-between about Saddam’s WMD program, the report said.

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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 06:41 AM
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1. So now we have evidence that the regime deliberately mis led
Congress and the American people.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:09 AM
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2. Saddam was always CIA's man
http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html

LOL google "Thanks for the Memories" and hit I am feeling lucky :)
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:12 AM
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3. Yet we still have Dem's parroting the company line "Saddam was bad"
Makes me wonder?

Don
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 07:25 AM
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4. Saddam made the same mistake that many...
Dictators that were allies with US Govt made. He tried to go his own way. Read about the 1st Gulf War to understand why Poppy Bush decided to nueter Saddam. When Saddam wouldn't learn his lesson the Neo Fascists decided that he and his Ba'athists had to be destroyed.
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