'Fight Smart' Update - 4 January 2004

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Hussein Kamel And The Big Anglo-American Deception
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Iraqgate 2003

"It is quite clear that throughout 2002 both Washington and London were actively seeking, contrary to intelligence assessments, evidence to justify the case for war. Four key items were deployed for this purpose.... The fourth piece of evidence was used on 25 February 2003 when Tony Blair told the House of Commons that 'it was only four years later, after the defection of Saddam's son-in-law to Jordan, that the offensive biological weapons and the full extent of the nuclear programme were discovered'. However, a week later Newsweek obtained details of Kamel's actual IAEA and Unscom debriefing. That reveals he said exactly the opposite. Does this mean that Kamel's testimony was twisted to make the case for war when its public disclosure was not anticipated?...  All these questions about Iraqgate 2003 arise because, as the BBC reported on 7 July, 'members of the Foreign Affairs committee said that without full access to all the relevant papers and witnesses, nobody could resolve the row satisfactorily ... The committee's inquiry is hampered by Ministers' continued refusal to allow it to see intelligence papers and question intelligence personnel'. That in a nutshell is why a full judicial inquiry is still urgently needed into why Britain went to war in Iraq."
Michael Meacher - The Truth About WMD Lies Beyond Hutton
Observer, 4 January 2004

"All chemical weapons were destroyed. I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed".
General Hussein Kamel, Iraqi defector
IAEA and UNSCOM debrief interview, August 1995

"Publishers are this weekend fighting over the rights to the inside story of the battle between the BBC and the Government, which threatens to be the biggest crisis of Tony Blair's premiership, with Hutton expected to publish his report in the next fortnight. As well as detailing his relationship with MoD weapons expert Dr David Kelly, who committed suicide last summer after being named as the journalist's suspected source, Gilligan is thought to have several sensational revelations up his sleeve, including further details of his relationship with Kelly going well beyond the scope of the Hutton Inquiry..... Michael Meacher, the former Environment Minister, warns today that the terms of his remit means the judge will not be able to examine crucial aspects of the debate, including whether Britain was led into war under false pretences. Writing for The Observer today, he adds: 'It is crucial, if Lord Hutton feels unable to tackle these central issues, that a separate judicial inquiry is now set up to establish beyond doubt what the truth really is and what the implications are for Britain's governance.'  Meacher said fundamental questions remained, including why Blair did not disclose a briefing from the intelligence services showing that military action against Iraq could increase the terrorist threat. He said questions also remained over why Blair claimed, in his foreword to the now infamous September dossier on Iraq's banned weapons, that Saddam had 'continued to produce' them."
Gilligan to pocket £250,000 for inside story of Kellygate
Observer, 4 January 2004

"Geoff Hoon was under new pressure yesterday after the Hutton inquiry was told that he had set firm conditions on David Kelly’s appearance before the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee. The Defence Secretary said that Dr Kelly, whose name had been revealed a few days earlier, should be questioned on Andrew Gilligan’s evidence to that committee, and not on the wider issue of weapons of mass destruction and the preparation of the Iraqi dossier."
Hoon sought to control questions asked of Kelly
London Times, 22 August 2003

"Above all he [Dr Kelly] should be asked to say what kind of a threat Iraq was in September 2002 ... If he is able to
answer frankly it should be devastating."
Email from Andrew Gilligan, BBC, to Greg Simpson Liberal Democrat’s deputy head of press suggesting questioning for Dr Kelly at the Foreign Affair Select Committee (before Dr Kelly was disclosed as Gilligan's source)
Hutton Inquiry Evidence, 19 August 2003

"I see the intelligence which is relevant to my expertise which is in the area of chemical and biological weapons..... I have no idea whether there were weapons or not at that time [of the September dossier].... "
Dr David Kelly
Evidence given to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, 15 July 2003

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1115803,00.html

The truth about WMD lies beyond Hutton

Michael Meacher
Sunday January 4, 2004
The Observer

Lord Hutton will report shortly on the 'circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly', but is likely to regard as beyond his remit such key questions as how the September 2002 dossier appears to include several dishonest claims and whether the country was falsely led into war. It is crucial, if Lord Hutton feels unable to tackle these central issues, that a separate judicial inquiry is now set up to establish beyond doubt what the truth really is and what the implications are for Britain's governance.

On 10 February last year, five weeks before the war started, the Government's Joint Intelligence Committee gave its assessment that there was no evidence that Iraq had provided chemical or biological weapons to al-Qaeda, though in the event of an imminent regime collapse 'there would be a risk of transfer of such material'; in other words an attack on Iraq would increase the risk of terrorism. Tony Blair did not disclose this briefing before the war, and it only became known when the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee released it on 11 September.

It is quite clear that throughout 2002 both Washington and London were actively seeking, contrary to intelligence assessments, evidence to justify the case for war. Four key items were deployed for this purpose. One was almost immediately exposed as plagiarised from a student thesis more than 10 years old. The other three were documents purporting to show that Iraq had been trying to buy uranium for nuclear bombs from Niger, the claim that Iraq was able to deploy WMDs within 45 minutes, and 'evidence' from a top-level Iraqi defector that Iraq had produced several tons of the deadly nerve agent VX.

Each of these raise worrying questions of credibility which require systematic investigation by an independent inquiry. However, enough of the facts are now known to draw some important conclusions.

After months of failed requests, the International Atomic Energy Agency obtained the Niger documents from the US Government, and within a matter of hours established they were obviously forged and announced this on 7 March 2003, 10 days before the start of the war. CIA sources confirmed on 11 July that they had advised Britain to omit the Niger allegations in its September 2002 dossier. So on what justification was it included in this dossier?

Similar concerns surround the 45-minute claim. At the Hutton inquiry Dr Brian Jones from the Ministry of Defence, who described himself as 'probably the most experienced intelligence official working on WMD', said his leading chemical weapons expert was concerned he could not point to any solid evidence of production. Yet the Prime Minister's foreword in the dossier stated unequivocally that 'what I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons'. So why was the 45-minute claim included, at the request of the Prime Minister according to Alastair Campbell?

The fourth piece of evidence was used on 25 February 2003 when Tony Blair told the House of Commons that 'it was only four years later, after the defection of Saddam's son-in-law to Jordan, that the offensive biological weapons and the full extent of the nuclear programme were discovered'. However, a week later Newsweek obtained details of Kamel's actual IAEA and Unscom debriefing. That reveals he said exactly the opposite. Does this mean that Kamel's testimony was twisted to make the case for war when its public disclosure was not anticipated?

All these questions about Iraqgate 2003 arise because, as the BBC reported on 7 July, 'members of the Foreign Affairs committee said that without full access to all the relevant papers and witnesses, nobody could resolve the row satisfactorily ... The committee's inquiry is hampered by Ministers' continued refusal to allow it to see intelligence papers and question intelligence personnel'. That in a nutshell is why a full judicial inquiry is still urgently needed into why Britain went to war in Iraq.

· Michael Meacher was Environment Minister, 1997-2003

"One of the major weaknesses of journalism today is how easily some are seduced by power. The premier role of the journalist should be as a check on power, however, many seem to turn this dictum on its head and get greater job satisfaction as parrots of the official truth. Nowhere is this tendency more prevalent than amongst Parliamentary lobby correspondents in Westminster. It has been the supine nature of many of these individuals that has allowed the likes of Alastair Campbell and co to become so powerful in spinning their version of events to the wider world....  It is sad that people had to wait for Meacher to put together the strands of 9/11..."
Why isn't the truth out there?
Observer, 5 October 2003

HOW THE MEDIA LET HUMANITY DOWN
THE GENERAL KAMEL EPISODE AND OTHER DECEPTIONS THE PRESS IGNORED BEFORE THE WAR
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"But the Downing St dossiers were hardly the end of the extraordinary deception generated by the Anglo-American alliance.  One of the key pieces of evidence relied upon by the Bush administration in making the case against Saddam was testimony provided by an Iraqi defector in August 1995. This was General Hussein Kamel, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law who had run Iraq's WMD programmes prior to the first Gulf war. He was the highest ranking Iraqi official ever to have defected to the west. Kamel's testimony has been regularly promoted as evidence that Iraq had not disarmed. In his February 5 presentation to the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "It took years for Iraq to finally admit that it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent VX. A single drop of VX on the skin will kill in minutes. Four tons. The admission only came out after inspectors collected documentation as a result of the defection of Hussein Kamel, Saddam Hussein's late son-in-law." Kamel was not in a position to comment on Powell's statement before the war because by then he was dead. He had originally hoped his defection to the West would trigger Saddam’s overthrow. But after six months in exile in Jordan, Kamel realised the United States would not support his hope of becoming Iraq’s ruler after Saddam’s demise. He chose to return to Iraq, where he was promptly killed. However, in a surprise development a few weeks after Powell's February presentation to the UN Newsweek magazine obtained details of Kamel's IAEA and UNSCOM debriefing interview. Newsweek also confirmed that Kamel had given the same testimony to both the CIA and MI6. Newsweek published the story at the end of February 2003 and confirmed that it had verified the debrief document's authenticity.  With one or two honourable exceptions, notably John Pilger in the Daily Mirror, the rest of the war obsessed media largely ignored the Newsweek story, although the information was freely circulating on the internet. 'Fight Smart' distributed details 28 February in its bulletin entitled 'How many lies in 'Pax Americana'?. The full Kamel interview reveals exactly the opposite of the subsequent Anglo-American claim that Iraq had not destroyed its weapons of mass destruction following the first Gulf war. Although Iraq had retained technical information from its earlier programmes Kamel's debrief explains how, when and why Saddam Hussein had disarmed. The content of his debrief can be summed up in the following words that Kamel uses after having gone through the details: "All chemical weapons were destroyed. I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear were destroyed". Once source present at the debrief is reported by Newsweek as saying that the information provided by Kamel was "almost embarrassing, it was so extensive" (the actual transcript reveals, for example, that some of the testing for Iraq's pre-1991 anthrax programme had been carried out in England). Many might prefer not to trust what Kamel had to say prior to his death. But one thing is clear. The outcome of his debrief given in private was the opposite to that which the Bush administration has led people to believe when selectively citing Kamel's undisclosed testimony in public. Unfortunately for Bush and Blair by February 2003 the public could now read about the complete testimony for themselves. Fortunately for Bush and Blair, however, few took the opportunity. Not surprisingly the CIA issued vigorous denials following publication of the disastrous piece in Newsweek. Unfortunately for them, however, the credibility of their denial was short lived. A few days later a full transcript of the 1995 Kamel debrief  was made available on the internet by Cambridge University academic Glen Rangwala. It would appear that the British government is also implicated in this deception. It too joined in the US denials of the Newsweek story shortly before the full transcript of the Kamel debrief was released by Dr Rangwala. According to an ABC News report 24 February "...'We've checked back and he didn't say this,' a British government source told Reuters. 'He said just the opposite, that the WMD program was alive and kicking.' " That was simply a lie. It was just too bad for them that the CIA and the British government didn't realise that the debrief transcript itself was going to be available over the internet. The full extent of the deception was finally out in the public domain even if few had noticed."
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