Re: 60 Minutes Investigates
It is funny that Naji Sabri the chief source of US intel says this in July 2002.
So Naji supplying info to US is good.
Inspectors supplying info is no good?
Strange!
CBS should have quoted Naji’s public statements as well. Seems like they got too excited about lynching Bush, While they completely ignored Naji. Is this a case of “single source” info?
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020731/2002073112.html
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Iraq: US wants inspector to gather intelligence information for attack
**Iraq-*USA, Politics, 7/31/2002 *
Iraq has stressed that the US wants to the return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq in order to update its intelligence information in order to launch a likely attack against Iraq.
In a press statement issued on Tuesday in Baghdad, the Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri said that Washington wants to control Iraq’s oil which is the second largest oil reserves in the world, noting that the UN inspectors will come to this country " Iraq," having among them “American, Israeli and British spies.” Sabri stressed that those “spies will update information about the civilian and economic firms as well as the security and military sites and will give these lists to the American intelligence and military departments to be used in attacking Iraq.”
He added that any talks with the UN over the return of UN weapons inspectors should be also centered on lifting the sanctions imposed since 1990, and on the “no fly zones” imposed by the west over southern and northern Iraq in 1991. He called for dealing with all issues including the violation of the American and British military planes of the Iraqi national security and the tremendous damages caused by Britain and the US against Iraq.
Sabri said that the Iraqis will resist any American military attack in defense of their country’s freedom and independence.
Worth noting, that the previous head of the US inspection team, part of the UN inspectors that were expelled by Iraq, had admitted that the US used the inspectors for spying activities and information with Israel.