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...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein's former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein,” Conyers said.“The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically...
slacktivist (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... The mission: create a handwritten letter, dated July, 2001, from [former Iraq Intelligence Chief Tahir Jalil 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-Qaida organization." The mission was carried out, the letter was created, popped up in Baghdad, and roiled the global...
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...
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...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... program. 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...
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...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Ron Suskind The 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 a $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of Diamonds in Bush's famous deck of wanted men -- has been America's secret source...
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... 2003 the White House ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to forge a memo dated July 2001 from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, to Saddam himself, affirming that Mohammed Atta, the September 11 2001 bomber, had contacts with the regime and that Iraq had an ongoing weapons of mass destruction programme.This document has long been known about. It was splashed...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
One interesting aspect of Ron Suskind's revelations about former Iraq Intelligence Chief Tahir Jalil Habbush was the urgent need on the part of the Busheviks to keep Habbush quiet so no one would know that he told us before the invasion that Saddam had no WMD's. Habbush did nothing wrong, and in fact cooperated completely with the U.S. But Bush kept him hidden in Jordan (even though...
Spin and Spinners (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The revelations in Ron Suskind's new book (see e.g. the Times ) that the UK and US were told before the war that Iraq had no WMD are fascinating. It's not clear that the claims of Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush should have been believed but where do they appear in e.g. the Butler Review? Trying to work out the timing is quite difficult. The Times says: The book claimed that...
Gorilla Radio blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened? Ron Suskind 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 a $1 million reward for capture, the Jack of Diamonds in Bush's famous deck of wanted men -- has been...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Ron Suskind's revelation of document forgery to cover up the case for war with Iraq caused quite a stir yesterday. Today he writes in the Huffington Post about the whole sordid tale - it's quite unbelievable. 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...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Continuing with the theme of hackery, although on a scale far, far removed from that involving Peaches Geldof, comes the allegations from Ron Suskind in his latest book that the White House ordered the CIA in the middle of 2003 to forge a letter from Iraq's former intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush , which was subsequently used as the smoking gun to prove links between Saddam Hussein's...
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
side note: MUST READ! Ron Suskind http://www.huffingtonpost.com 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 [...]
