The Forged Iraqi Letter: What
Just Happened?
By Ron Suskind
07/08/08 "Huffington
Post" -- - -What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously
kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is
new, never reported in any way:
The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush — a man still
carrying with $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of
Diamonds in Bush’s famous deck of wanted men — has been
America’s secret source on Iraq. Starting in January of 2003,
with Blair and Bush watching, his secret reports began to flow
to officials on both sides of the Atlantic, saying that there
were no WMD and that Hussein was acting so odd because of fear
that the Iranians would find out he was a toothless tiger. The
U.S. deep-sixed the intelligence report in February, “resettled”
Habbush to a safe house in Jordan during the invasion and then
paid him $5 million in what could only be considered hush money.
In the fall of 2003, after the world learned there were no WMD —
as Habbush had foretold — the White House ordered the CIA to
carry out a deception. The mission: create a handwritten letter,
dated July, 2001, from Habbush to Saddam saying that Atta
trained in Iraq before the attacks and the Saddam was buying
yellow cake for Niger with help from a “small team from the al
Qaeda organization.”
The mission was carried out, the letter was created, popped up
in Baghdad, and roiled the global newcycles in December, 2003
(conning even venerable journalists with Tom Brokaw). The
mission is a statutory violation of the charter of CIA, and
amendments added in 1991, prohibiting CIA from conduction
disinformation campaigns on U.S. soil.
So, here we go again: the administration full attack mode,
calling me names, George Tenet is claiming he doesn’t remember
any such thing — just like he couldn’t remember “slam dunk” —
and reporters are scratching their heads. Everything in the book
is on the record. Many sources. And so, we watch and wait….
Pulitzer Prize-winner Ron Suskind is the author of The Way of
the World. See http://www.ronsuskind.com
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