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CIA and DoD Attempted To Plant WMDs in Iraq ?
and Failed July 2, 2003
Pentagon Whistleblower Reveals CIA/DoD Fiascos
According to a stunning report posted by a retired Navy Lt. Commander and
28-year veteran of the Defense Department, the Bush administration's
assurance about finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was based on a
CIA plan to "plant" WMDs inside the country. Nelda Rogers, the Pentagon
whistleblower, claims the plan failed when the secret mission was mistakenly
taken out by "friendly fire."
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2003/06/266752.shtml 20.06.2003 [08:07]
A DoD whistleblower details an attempt by a covert US
team to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The team was later killed by friendly fire due
to CIA incompetence. In a world exclusive, Al Martin Raw.com
[http://www.almartinraw.com/] has published a news story about a Department
of Defense whistleblower who has revealed that a US covert-operations team
had planted "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) in Iraq, then "lost" them
when the team was killed by so-called "friendly fire."
The Pentagon whistleblower, Nelda Rogers, is a 28-year
veteran debriefer for
the Defense Department. She has become so concerned for her safety that she
decided to tell the story about this latest CIA-military fiasco in Iraq.
According to Al Martin Raw.com, "Ms. Rogers is number two in the chain of
command within this DoD special intelligence office. This is a ten-person
debriefing unit within the central debriefing office for the Department of
Defense."
The information that is being leaked out is information "obtained while she
was in Germany heading up the debriefing of returning service personnel,
involved in intelligence work in Iraq for the Department of Defense and/or
the Central Intelligence Agency. "According to Ms. Rogers, there was a
covert military operation that took place both preceding and during the
hostilities in Iraq," reports Al Martin Raw.com, an online subscriber-based
news/analysis service which provides "Political, Economic and Financial
Intelligence."
Al Martin is a retired Lt. Commander (US Navy), the author of a memoir
called "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, " and he is
considered one of America's foremost experts on corporate and government
fraud. Ms. Rogers reports that this particular covert operation team was
manned by ex-military personnel and that "the unit was paid through the
Department of Agriculture in order to hide it, which is also very
commonplace."
According to Al Martin Raw.com, "the Ag Department has often been used as a
paymaster on behalf of the CIA, DIA, and NSA and others." Accordng to the Al
Martin Raw.com story, another aspect of Ms. Rogers' report concerns a covert
operation which was to locate the assets of Saddam Hussein and his family,
including cash, gold bullion, jewelry and assorted valuable antiquities.
The problem became evident when "the operation in Iraq involved 100 people,
all of whom apparently are now dead, having succumbed to so-called `friendly
fire.' The scope of this operation included the penetration of the Central
Bank of Iraq, other large commercial banks in Baghdad, the Iraqi National
Museum and certain presidential palaces where monies and bullion were
secreted."
"They identified about $2 billion of cash in US dollars, another $150
million in Euros, in physical banknotes, and about another $100 million in
sundry foreign currencies ranging from Yen to British Pounds," reports Al
Martin.
"These people died, mostly in the same place in Baghdad, supposedly from a
stray cruise missile or a combination of missiles and bombs that went
astray," Martin continues. "There were supposedly 76 who died there and the
other 24 died through a variety of 'friendly fire,' 'mistaken identity,' and
some of them---their whereabouts are simply unknown." Ms. Rogers' story
sounds like an updated 21st-Century version of Treasure Island meets Ali
Baba and the Bush Cabal Thieves, writes Martin.
"This was a contingent of CIA/ DoD operatives, but it was really the CIA
that bungled it," Ms. Rogers said. "They were relying on the CIA's ability
to organize an effort to seize these assets and to be able to extract these
assets because the CIA claimed it had resources on the ground within the
Iraqi army and the Iraqi government who had been paid. That turned out to be
completely bogus. As usual."
"CIA people were supposed to be handling it," Martin continues. "They had a
special `black (unmarked) aircraft to fly it out. But none of that happened
because the regular US Army showed up, stumbled onto it and everyone
involved had to scramble.
These new Iraqi "Asset Seizures" go directly to the New US Ruling Junta. The
US Viceroy in Iraq Paul Bremer is reportedly drinking Saddam Hussein's $2000
a bottle Napoleon-era brandy, smoking his expensive Davidoff cigars and he
has even furnished his Baghdad office with Saddam's Napoleon-era antique
furniture.
The Iraq Debacle Du Jour has evidently been extensively documented by the
DIA debriefing teams with "extensive tape recordings of interviews with the
Iraqi returnees, the covert operatives (as well as their affidavits)." Al
Martin Raw.com has dubbed this "Operation Skim Iraq."
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