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CIA and DoD Attempted To Plant WMDs in Iraq  and Failed

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/edit/index.php?op=view&itemid=331

July 2, 2003 
Pentagon Whistleblower Reveals CIA/DoD Fiascos

According to a stunning report posted by a retired Navy Lt. Commander
and 28-year veteran of the Defense Department, the Bush
administration's assurance about finding weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq was based on a CIA plan to "plant" WMDs inside the country.
Nelda Rogers, the Pentagon whistleblower, claims the plan failed when
the secret mission was mistakenly taken out by "friendly fire."

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A DoD whistleblower details an attempt by a covert US team to plant
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The team was later killed by
friendly fire due to CIA incompetence. In a world exclusive, Al Martin
Raw.com [http://www.almartinraw.com/] has published a news story about
a Department of Defense whistleblower who has revealed that a US
covert-operations team had planted "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
(WMDs) in Iraq, then "lost" them when the team was killed by 
so-called "friendly fire." 

The Pentagon whistleblower, Nelda Rogers, is a 28-year veteran
debriefer for the Defense Department. She has become so concerned for
her safety that she decided to tell the story about this latest
CIA-military fiasco in Iraq. 

According to Al Martin Raw.com, "Ms. Rogers is number two in the chain
of command within this DoD special intelligence office. This is a
ten-person debriefing unit within the central debriefing office for
the Department of Defense." 

The information that is being leaked out is information "obtained
while she was in Germany heading up the debriefing of returning
service personnel, involved in intelligence work in Iraq for the
Department of Defense and/or the Central Intelligence Agency.
"According to Ms. Rogers, there was a covert military operation that
took place both preceding and during the hostilities in Iraq," 
reports Al Martin Raw.com, an online subscriber-based news/analysis
service which provides "Political, Economic and Financial
Intelligence." 

Al Martin is a retired Lt. Commander (US Navy), the author of a memoir
called "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, " and he
is considered one of America's foremost experts on corporate and
government fraud. Ms. Rogers reports that this particular covert
operation team was manned by ex-military personnel and that "the unit
was paid through the Department of Agriculture in order to hide it,
which is also very commonplace." 

According to Al Martin Raw.com, "the Ag Department has often been used
as a paymaster on behalf of the CIA, DIA, and NSA and others."
Accordng to the Al Martin Raw.com story, another aspect of Ms. Rogers'
report concerns a covert operation which was to locate the assets of
Saddam Hussein and his family, including cash, gold bullion, jewelry
and assorted valuable antiquities. 

The problem became evident when "the operation in Iraq involved 100
people, all of whom apparently are now dead, having succumbed to
so-called `friendly fire.' The scope of this operation included the
penetration of the Central Bank of Iraq, other large commercial banks
in Baghdad, the Iraqi National Museum and certain presidential palaces
where monies and bullion were secreted." 

"They identified about $2 billion of cash in US dollars, another $150
million in Euros, in physical banknotes, and about another $100
million in sundry foreign currencies ranging from Yen to British
Pounds," reports Al Martin. 

"These people died, mostly in the same place in Baghdad, supposedly

>from a stray cruise missile or a combination of missiles and bombs

that went astray," Martin continues. "There were supposedly 76 who
died there and the other 24 died through a variety of 'friendly fire,'
'mistaken identity,' and some of them---their whereabouts are simply
unknown." Ms. Rogers' story sounds like an updated 21st-Century
version of Treasure Island meets Ali Baba and the Bush Cabal 
Thieves, writes Martin. 

"This was a contingent of CIA/ DoD operatives, but it was really the
CIA that bungled it," Ms. Rogers said. "They were relying on the CIA's
ability to organize an effort to seize these assets and to be able to
extract these assets because the CIA claimed it had resources on the
ground within the Iraqi army and the Iraqi government who had been
paid. That turned out to be completely bogus. As usual." 

"CIA people were supposed to be handling it," Martin continues. "They
had a special `black (unmarked) aircraft to fly it out. But none of
that happened because the regular US Army showed up, stumbled onto it
and everyone involved had to scramble. 

These new Iraqi "Asset Seizures" go directly to the New US Ruling
Junta. The US Viceroy in Iraq Paul Bremer is reportedly drinking
Saddam Hussein's $2000 a bottle Napoleon-era brandy, smoking his
expensive Davidoff cigars and he has even furnished his Baghdad office
with Saddam's Napoleon-era antique furniture. 

The Iraq Debacle Du Jour has evidently been extensively documented by
the DIA debriefing teams with "extensive tape recordings of interviews
with the Iraqi returnees, the covert operatives (as well as their
affidavits)." Al Martin Raw.com has dubbed this "Operation Skim Iraq."