Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Monday 08, Sep.,'08___________JAFFNA COLLAGE“Whatever the claimants of the 185th year founding of Jaffna College may say, the irrefutable historical fact is that the Batticotta Seminary founded in 1823 was closed by the American Mission in 1855 on the grounds it had failed in its proselytizing mission..... on pillayanEXCLUSIVE“The people in Kilinochchi have already lost their own children and relatives...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Even though Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind supplied explosive evidence to support the case that the Bush administration willfully deceived America and the rest of the world about the Iraq invasion, some key players in Congress still insist there aren’t sufficient grounds for impeachment, but the chance still stands to follow Suskind’s lead before the Bush camp decamps from the White...
The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
You've probably heard/read about the Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti "Saddam-Atta-uranium" forgery. Marcy has written about this document here and here and she quotes Philip Giraldi who says: An extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community has informed me that Ron Suskind’s revelation that the White House ordered the preparation of a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... Iran) [...] On Dec. 11, 2003 -- three days before the Telegraph launched its "exclusive" on the Habbush memo -- the Washington Post published an article by Dana Priest and Robin Wright headlined "Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. to Stem Attacks." Buried inside on Page A41, their story outlined the CIA's efforts to create a new Iraqi intelligence agency: "Badran and Ayad Allawi, leader of...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
There are a growing number of theories in circulation about the Habbush forgery revealed in Ron Suskind's The Way of the World . The forgery was publicized in December 2003 - 6 months after the invasion, when it became clear no WMD's were found going to be - in an attempt to prove there were pre-war ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. I'll try to keep track of them here... CIA officials...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Can someone explain this to me, please? This isn’t some sort of rhetorical device, by the way. I honestly would like some help in understanding the questions surrounding Ron Suskind’s allegations regarding the forged documents which sought to tie Saddam to AQ in an effort to gin up support for the Iraq war. According to his account, George Tenet delivered the order from the White House to the CIA,...
Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... who might have done the forgery: There are a growing number of theories in circulation about the Habbush forgery revealed in Ron Suskind's "The Way of the World". The forgery was publicized in December 2003 - 6 months after the invasion, when it became clear no WMD's were found going to be - in an attempt to prove there were pre-war ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. I'll try to keep...
Spin and Spinners (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Salon.com adds a new twist to Ron Suskind's allegation that the CIA forged a letter linking Iraq with the September 11 attacks. It shows that Ayad Allawi was at the CIA just days before he gave the letter to Telegraph journalist Con Coughlin. We're still waiting for Coughlin's take on this. The Telegraph reported the story on its website on Tuesday night, coyly adding in the final paragraph that The...
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Louis Bayard details Ron Suskind's claim that George Tenet ordered CIA officials Rob Richer and John Maguire to forge a letter from Iraqi security chief Habbush to Saddam Hussein. The letter was a fictional smoking gun tying Iraq to 9/11....
subrealism (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Ron Suskind - The Forged Iraqi Letter ; The Iraq Intelligence Chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush -- a man still carrying a $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...
The RBC (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I've just read Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World. It's gotten press for revelations that the U.S. and Britain, before the invasion of Iraq, had a high level source Saddam's intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush -- who explicitly said that Saddam had no WMD. Bush, Cheney, and Rice first cut off contact with the source, despite the desire of the intelligence agencies to use him for...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
In the wake of the CIA's offical denial of Ron Suskind's explosive claim that the White Houe ordered the agency to fabricate a letter suggesting a Saddam-alQaeda link, the blogger Laura Rozen makes a couple interesting points . First, the CIA's statement seems to come close to contradicting Richer's own denial . According to the CIA statement, "our government considers Habbush [Saddam's former...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Investigative reporter Ron Suskind's book "The Way of the World" has exposed new impeachable crimes by the Bush Administration, and House Judiciary Chair John Conyers has launched an investigation. Suskind's most powerful revelation is that Iraq's Intelligence Minister, Gen. Tahir Jalil Habbush al Takriti , became a U.S.-British spy two months before George Bush invaded Iraq. Habbush...
Fact-esque (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... and no one -- no individual and no intelligence service -- has substantiated Suskind's account of Habbush or the bogus letter," the agency said in a prepared statement. "At this point, the origins of the forgery, like the whereabouts of Habbush himself, remain unclear. But this much is certain: Suskind is off the mark." Phew! Except.... The CIA investigation is the latest in a long...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... According to Suskind's new book, The Way of the World, Iraqi director of intelligence Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti had been passing on sensitive intelligence to Britain's MI6 intelligenceservice for more than a year before the US invasion. In early 2003, Suskind writes, Habbush told MI6 official Michael Shipster in Jordan that Saddam had ended his nuclear program in 1991 and his...
