Thursday, November 06, 2003

Seized Intelligence Files Spur U.S. Investigations (washingtonpost.com)

Seized Intelligence Files Spur U.S. Investigations (washingtonpost.com): "The CIA has seized an extensive cache of files from the former Iraqi Intelligence Service that is spurring U.S. investigations of weapons procurement networks and agents of influence who took money from the government of Saddam Hussein, according to U.S. officials familiar with the records.

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The Iraq Survey Group, the CIA-supervised body appointed by President Bush to lead the hunt for special weapons, hopes its searches for fugitive officers from the Iraqi security services may also produce breakthroughs in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

In the meantime, as they travel on site visits and conduct interviews, survey group teams increasingly are falling under hostile, professional surveillance and ambush attempts, according to officials involved in the weapons searches. "

I think it's safe to say that if the weapons were ever there, they are gone. But these papers might have some other useful info in them.

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