Iraqi document on WMD on trucks crossing the Iraqi border

Just found another fun Iraqi document:   ISZP-2003-00001122 (PDF in English; no Arabic original). (*) It deals with the perennial question of Iraqi WMD, trucks, and crossing over the borders.  This January 11, 2003, Top Secret document to the national intelligence committee says:

"The evil American authority stepped up their accusation of Iraq for the possibility of hiding chemical agents or biological labs on moveable trucks and trailers or inside containers.  The American authorities are planning on bringing such trucks and containers into Iraq across the boarders [sic] or the boarder [sic] of the self ruled areas or smuggling areas to provide it to the weapon inspectors to be used against Iraq in order to launch their wicked invading [sic] against our precious country."

To combat this alleged American plan, the document recommends performing "detailed inspection on all trucks and containers entering the country", monitoring all smuggling routes (especially at the Kurdistan, Jordanian, and Kuwaiti borders), and to inspect all "open warehouses or containers."

For some reason, this document - in which the Iraqis plan to step up their monitoring of trucks and traffic coming in to the country to prevent the planting of fake WMD evidence - isn't getting nearly as much attention as some others. 

Is this memo authentic?  Beats me.  Does this memo prove anything?  Not really.  But it's just as likely to be authentic and proves just as much as most anything else you've read about from the Iraqi document release in the last week.

(*) just posted not on the first page of documents, as one would expect, but on page ten. I swear, the FMSO people seem to be going out of their way to make this site unusable to researchers by changing their format almost daily and making it difficult to identify which documents have been recently added.  Especially this kind, one wonders?  Also, there seem to be a bunch of documents recently added which post-date March 2003 (an excerpt from a jihadi website, a record of insurgent attacks in April-May 2004) making one wonder what exactly is being dumped here.

Comments

[Dr Victorino de la Vega]

Always short on facts, the cheaply Neoconish New York Sun recently published yet another article purporting to “prove” the existence of secret links between the Iraqi Baath party and Al Qaeda- see link below:
Saddam, Al Qaeda Did Collaborate, Documents Show

However, reading the article in question only “reveals” that:
“The document has no official stamps or markers”
“The question of future cooperation [between Saddam and Bin Laden] is left an open question”
“New documents […] did not prove Saddam Hussein played a role in any way in plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001”

Funny how after their Iraq debacle, the Neocons haven’t stopped peddling the tall tale of Saddam’s alleged “connections” with OBL: the Leninist thugs of Washington are decidedly obsessed with Saddam and the Baath party…even after they’ve been rendered inoffensive- assuming they ever posed a threat to America any other country.

Bush, Cheney & Co. have always lied about the nature of the Iraqi regime, repeatedly accusing Saddam Hussein of being an Islamic fundamentalist in cahoots with Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban: unfortunately, after having been bombarded with fabricated infomercials produced by Israeli “Middle-East experts”, the American public eventually came to believe exactly what the Neocon wanted: that Saddam was kind of a later days bloodthirsty Saracen, on the verge of conquering the Infidel pastures of Wyoming and Oklahoma!

Yet, as we now know, the truth is otherwise: there never were any “links” between the Baath party and Al Qaeda, no spooky “secret meetings” in Vienna or Prague or “somewhere in Eastern Europe” between “Saddam’s diplomatic envoy and Bin Laden’s righthand man” as Vice-President Dick Cheney had alleged on numerous occasions

In Fact, Saddam Hussein was a staunchly secular Arab nationalist, a disciple of professor Mitchell Aflaq, the French-educated Orthodox Christian philosopher. And, if anything, Christian minorities and women were generally overrepresented in Saddam’s government: Vice-President Tareq Hanna Aziz was actually Catholic and so were Saddam’s Chief of Staff and many of the senior civil servants working at the presidential palace.

And check out this article for a fascinating firsthand description of Saddam’s Tickrit “spider hole” hideout:
“Pinned to the outside wall of the hut was a cardboard box depicting biblical scenes such as the Last Supper and the Madonna and child with the English inscription "God bless our home." Inside the bedroom was a 2003 calendar in Arabic with a colorful depiction of Noah's Ark. Soldiers were surprised at the Christian decorations”

Yes these US soldiers were “surprised” after having been brainwashed about Saddam’s penchant for Islamic fundamentalism…which turned out to be just another lie churned out by Washington’s Neo-Conmintern propaganda factory.

Like him or not, Saddam Hussein was a truly modernist, Westernized Arab head of state who protected women’s rights and enforced affirmative action programs in favor of Iraq’s tiny Christian minority. “Old Europe’s” foreign policy establishment viewed the Iraqi Baath party essentially as a strong bulwark against both Persian-Khomeinist fundamentalism and Wahhabi-Afghan terrorism.

The Israelis and Washington’s Neocons thought otherwise: now we have to deal with the strictures of Sharia Law, the rise of Hamas and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) which they have deliberately brought to power…

[Nur al-cubicle]

Beats me how the DOD has any documents at all, after the bombings, burnings and lootings of archives and libraries in Baghdad during and after the invasion! Bizarre indeed!

[lamont cranston]

check out the full JFCOM report, now available in pdf from the Foreign Affairs website (www.foreignaffairs.org) along with the excerpted version. The report would seem to document conclusively that:

a) there were no significant advanced WMD programs or stockpiles in Iraq in the years immediately prior to the war;

b) Saddam decided in late 2002 to start actively complying with UN inspectors in order to avoid giving the US a casus belli;

c) the Iraqis were fearful that the Americans and/or Israelis would not take no for an answer and would try to plant evidence of WMD in Iraq so as to frame the regime.

The document you discuss would seem to relate to (c); it's hardly isolated.

lc