Fisk -How Arabic text of WMD was massaged by Downing St

[clem_c_rock]

More shit that makes me furious when people are too afraid to use the word LIE.

And anyone buying the latest wave of incompetence theories that the Iraq intelligence was flawed, maybe it's time to find your closest recruitment center and sign up.


http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=3789


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Translation carried out for The Independent on Sunday reveals for the first time that several references to UN sanctions were cut from the Arabic text. On one page, the words "biological agents" were changed to read "nuclear agents". Arab journalists who reported on the dossier culled their information from the Arabic version - unaware that it was not the same as the English one.

While there is evidence of sloppiness in the translation - a 2001 Joint Intelligence Committee assessment of Iraqi nuclear ambitions is rendered as 2002 - many of the changes were clearly deliberate, apparently in an attempt to make the dossier more acceptable as well as more convincing to an Arab audience. At the time, the US and Britain were trying to convince Arab Gulf states that Saddam Hussein still represented a major threat to them - in the hope of seeking their support for the 2003 invasion - while the Arab world was enraged at the disastrous effects UN sanctions had on child mortality in Iraq.
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