Truthout - Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence

[texpatriot2004]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101105C.shtml

Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
By Norman Dombey
The Independent UK
Sunday 09 October 2005

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A clue to the ancestry of these black arts can be found in 1980, when right-wing Republicans wanted Ronald Reagan elected. They publicised a story that Billy Carter, the then President Jimmy Carter's colourful brother, had received $50,000 (£28,000) from the Libyan government.

The story was always denied by the President and no evidence of the payment was found, but the story helped to elect Reagan. Its source? Sismi, and an associate of a man called Michael Ledeen.

Ledeen is an intriguing and enduring presence in the murkier parts of US foreign policy. He is an American specialist on Italy with a long-standing commitment to Israel. According to The New York Times, in December 2001, a few months after the CIA first heard the Niger claims, Ledeen flew to Rome with Manucher Ghorbanifar, a former Iranian arms dealer, and two officials from OSP, one of whom was Larry Franklin. In Rome they met the head of Sismi.

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It seems it wasn't Ledeen but someone close to him. So who was it who had been planning since before 9/11 to create a fraudulent casus belli against Saddam?

[Captain Hilts]

1. Why don't they care who faked the 'Yellow Cake' documents? nt

[Richard D]

3. To me . . .

. . . that has always seemed such a bloody obvious question that no one was asking. Why? With all of the forensic techniques available it should be trackable. Who made this document should be a question that is shouted by the media.

[Carolab]

4. Read the article I posted below. n/t

[Carolab]

2. Ledeen is Rove's bestest buddy.

And Rove is Bush's bestest buddy.

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7256

KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS

KARL ROVE and VARIOUS SPIES HE IS LINKED TO

Karl Rove’s only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson’s CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done that? The story includes multinational stool pigeon Rocco Martino, Italian spy Francesco Pazienza, wanted CIA spy Robert Seldon Lady, and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, who’s under charges of giving US secrets to Israel.

Karl Rove’s foreign-policy advisor, Michael Ledeen, proclaimed "the rightness of the fascist cause" in 1972. In 1984 he got George Bush Sr to appoint Iranian arms merchant and Iranian/Israeli double-agent Manucher Ghorbanifar as a middleman in the scandalous Iran-Contra affair. Ledeen has been a fixture in Washington and Israel ever since, advocating a modern version of the Crusades against Islamic nations. Based on what he has said and written, I believe Ledeen is insane.

Michael Ledeen, Rove’s "brain," is one of the leading advocates for a US attack on Iran. The Washington Post quoted Ledeen as saying that Rove told him, "Anytime you have a good idea, tell me." I guess that means we can look forward to the Bush team drumming up a war with Iran.

George Bush Jr., when he assumed the presidency in 2000, already knew that he was going to settle the family score with Saddam Hussein. His "brain," Rove, quickly enlisted Ledeen to trump up a causus belli.

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[texpatriot2004]

5. Thanks for this on Rove's friends n.t

[texpatriot2004]

6. Everything you need to know about Ledeen & Who is Ledeen

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/MichaelLedeen.html

http://www.alternet.org/story/15860/

[Cassandra]

8. And of course, his daughter was one of the...

Heritage wannabes sent to Iraq to hand out graft...oops, I mean reconstruction money.

[enough]

7. kick