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2006/2/15-17 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:41879 Activity:nil
2/15    Bill Tierney, former UN weapons inspector and CENTCOM intelligence
        analyst, releases tapes of Saddam talking about the inevitability of a
        WMD attack on the U.S., even though Iraq would have no part of it, and
        the effort to hide an Iraqi biological WMD program from inspectors:
        http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/story?id=1616996
        Mr. Tierney was also convinced Saddam had a nuclear capability, and
        obtained the location of Saddam's uranium enrichment plant by talking
        with God:
        http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/02/14.html
        Mr. Tierney passionate about standing vigil for Terri Schiavo:
        http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/national/28scene.html
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column_brianross column_brianross EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tapes -- Inside Saddam's Palace ABC News Obtains 12 Hours of Recordings of Saddam Hussein Meeting With Top Aides Saddam Hussein ABC News has obtained tapes of Saddam Hussein discussing WMDs and the inevitability of terrorism, recorded in the years before the dictator was removed from power. ABC News obtained the tapes from Bill Tierney, a former member of a United Nations inspection team who translated them for the FBI. Tierney said the US government is wrong to keep these tapes and others secret from the public. "Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance of these tapes when I heard them," says Tierney. US officials have confirmed the tapes are authentic, and that they are among hundreds of hours of tapes Saddam recorded in his palace office. One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts -- during a meeting in the mid 1990s -- a terrorist attack on the United States. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and told the British as well ... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" "This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq." Also at the meeting was Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. It's so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. The tapes also reveal Iraq 's persistent efforts to hide information about weapons of mass destruction programs from UN inspectors well into the 1990s. In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that UN inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq's biological weapons program--a program whose existence Iraq had previously denied. At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the UN "We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel says in the meeting. "Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. Shortly after this meeting, in August 1995, Hussein Kamel defected to Jordan, and Iraq was forced to admit that it had concealed its biological weapons program. "Intelligence community analysts from the CIA, and the DIA reviewed the translations and found that while fascinating from a historical perspective the tapes do not reveal anything that changes their post war analysis of Iraq's weapons programs nor do they change the findings contained in the comprehensive Iraq Survey group report," the spokeswoman said in a statement. "The tapes mostly date from early to mid 1990s and cover such topics as relations with the United Nations, efforts to rebuild industries from Gulf war damage and the pre 9/11 situation in Afghanistan." Hoeckstra says there are more than 35,000 boxes of such tapes and documents that the US government has not analyzed nor made public that should also be translated and studied on an urgent basis. Charles Duelfer, who led the official US search for weapons of mass destruction after the war, says the tapes show extensive deception but don't prove that weapons were still hidden in Iraq at the time of the US-led war in 2003. "What they do is support the conclusion in the report, which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances permitted." Tierney, who provided ABC News with the tapes, plans to make the 12 hours of recordings public at a nongovernmental meeting -- called Intelligence Summit 2006 -- this weekend in Arlington, Va. John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor, runs the meeting.
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