Dubya Was Right (Saddam's WMds)

[Nbadan]

Bush Was Right'(Saddam's WMD)
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 2/21/2006 | staff



WMD: The quote above is that of a former UNSCOM member after translating and reviewing 12 hours of taped conversations between Saddam Hussein and his aides. So what's on the covers of Time and Newsweek?

Funny thing about dictators and tyrants: Very often they are meticulous record keepers. The fall of the Third Reich, the Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein's Iraq all produced treasure troves of information. In Iraq's case, there were so many documents and records that even now only a small fraction have been translated and analyzed.

Among them are 12 hours of conversations from the early 1990s through 2000 between Hussein and his top advisers. They reveal, among other things, how Iraq was working on an advanced method of enriching uranium, how Iraq was conspiring to deceive U.N. inspectors regarding weapons of mass destruction and how these weapons might be used against the U.S.

The tapes were officially presented Sunday by former FBI translator Bill Tierney to a private conference of former weapons inspectors and intelligence experts in Arlington, Va. Tierney is an Arabic speaker who worked in the mid-1990s for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the agency responsible for overseeing Iraq's disarmament.

More:Investors.com (http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=2&issue=20060221&view=1)

Xray and Vashner are redeemed! (NOT!)

:lol

[Peter]

Is it that different if you have a regime with a plan in place to develop the weapons versus already having them in place? Better to nip it in the bud.

Sure, Bush's veracity was none too comforting, but if we are going to look with 20/20 hindsight then the Hussein regime was bent on acquiring/developing WMDs in spite of the UN.

[Nbadan]

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Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. He worked on the most intrusive inspections during this period and either participated in or planned inspections that led to four of the seventeen resolutions against Iraq.

Tierney on Terri Schaivo:


Mr. Tierney, a former military intelligence officer in Iraq who works as a translator and investigator for private companies, cried as he talked about watching the Schiavo spectacle on television and feeling the utter need to be at the hospice.

Billmon (http://billmon.org/archives/001784.html)

On Torture at Abu Gharib:


After explaining his various psychological tactics to the audience, interrogator Bill Tierney (a private contractor working with the Army) said, ''I tried to be nuanced and culturally aware. But the suspects didn't break.''

Suddenly Tierney's temper rose. ''They did not break!'' he shouted. ''I'm here to win. I'm here so our civilization beats theirs! Now what are you willing to do to win?'' he asked, pointing to a woman in the front row. ''You are the interrogators, you are the ones who have to get the information from the Iraqis. What do you do? That word 'torture'. You immediately think, 'That's not me.' But are we litigating this war or fighting it?'' . . .

Asked about Abu Ghraib, Tierney said that for an interrogator, ''sadism is always right over the hill. You have to admit it. Don't fool yourself – there is a part of you that will say, 'This is fun.'

[ChumpDumper]

Those guys were pretty funny trying to get into character while they were reading their own translations of the tapes on C-Span.

[Nbadan]

French Sabotaged Weapons Inspections


The French "'gave them forewarning of the inspection targets,' charged Bill Tierney, a former top U.N. weapons inspector, in an interview with radio host Sean Hannity.

"'Once a list of sites were designated to be inspected, the security of that list was paramount,' Tierney explained. 'And from the Iraqi point of view, their intelligence collection program was very easy. All they had to do was find out what that list was.'

"Then Tierney charged point blank, 'The French would give the list to the Iraqis.'"

Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Tierney)

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"'The Iraqis still have weapons of mass destruction,' said Tierney, who lives in the Tampa Bay area. 'They have tons of chemical weapons. I'm not sure how much biological weapons are there, but I think he has nukes that can go.'

"Tierney also said he believes Saddam is close to having a missile delivery system for a nuclear warhead. He says the U.N. inspectors in Iraq four years ago found designs for missiles similar to those other countries use for nuclear warheads." [3] (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/800719/posts)

In April 2003, Bill Tierney "explained his confidence that Iraq had a robust nuclear program. He says he knew 'first-hand' that the reprocessing of uranium was taking place at a nuclear research facility about six miles from Tarmiya. The site had an underground chamber where they used calutrons in an effort to separate electromagnetic isotopes. The facility us beneath a power plant and a water-treatment plant. He testified that his team detected radiation at the site."

Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Tierney)

What a freak. How can anyone take this clown seriously?

[Peter]

I don't believe he was the one who authenticated the tapes.

[Nbadan]

The quote above is that of a former UNSCOM member after translating and reviewing 12 hours of taped conversations between Saddam Hussein and his aides.

[Peter]

Someone else authenticated the tapes.

[Nbadan]

Someone else authenticated the tapes.

Yeah, Sean Insannity. I hope this guys translations weren't what ABC News based their 20/20 Special.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, apparently there are all kinds of disagreements over translations.

Funny that Tierney spoke almost exclusively about biological weapons on CSpan when he was all over the nuke angle a couple of years ago.

[Peter]

Yeah, Sean Insannity.

Nope.



I hope this guys translations weren't what ABC News based their 20/20 Special.

They weren't.

[Nbadan]

Yep, according to this replay on the ABC News site (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1625526), Bill Tierney was the translator for the FBI of the Saddam tapes that were passed onto ABC.

[Peter]

The CIA and DIA authenticated the tapes.

[gtownspur]

Ndadan-wn3d

El pimpo with the pom poms.

[Nbadan]

The CIA and DIA authenticated the tapes.


You mean the same CIA that authenticated the WMD claims by these freaks before the war?