Saddam Translator: ABC Reinterpreted Tapes

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The FBI translator who supplied the 12 hours of Saddam Hussein audiotapes excerpted by ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night now says the network discarded his translations and went with a less threatening version of the Iraqi dictator's comments.

"What you heard on ABC News was their translation," former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Thursday.

"They came up with something different on a key element regarding terrorism in the United States," Tierney insisted.

In the "Nightline" version of the 1996 recording, Saddam predicts that Washington, D.C., would be hit by terrorists. But he adds that Iraq would have nothing to do with the attack.

Tierney says, however, that what Saddam actually said was much more sinister. "He was discussing his intent to use chemical weapons against the United States and use proxies so it could not be traced back to Iraq," he told Hannity.
In a passage not used by "Nightline," Tierney says Saddam declares: "Terrorism is coming. ... In the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What if we consider this technique, with smuggling?"

Tierney's full translations are set for release this weekend by The Intelligence Group in Washington, D.C.



NewsMax (cause the media has been busy gettin' Cheney)

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1. Saddam admits possession and intent to enhance WMD production, debunking the American left's WMD argument.

2. ABC lies and spins the facts to water down the story.

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"Terrorism is coming. ... In the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What if we consider this technique, with smuggling?" -- Saddam Hussein (hero to the left)

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You see how we are all manipulated by the media? This should be front page news for weeks. "Bush was right!", plastered all over newsprint and talked about nonstop on the talking head shows...Instead, since it is embarassing to the left and the activist media, it gets memory-hole treatment...Even us on the right forget about it if it isn't being shoved down our throats on a daily basis.

[rrpjr]

I saw Tierney on C-Span a few days ago discussing this, as well as his systematic encounters with Islamic infiltrators within the translating corps overseas. It is one thing for the media not to feature any one of these particular stories on the front page -- astonishing but understandable -- but it is quite another for them to ignore the entire document and tape translation story altogether. I've not seen one piece on it outside of Stephen Hayes work in Weekly Standard, and this piece by ABC (which appears to be adulterated). It is an enormous story, if only for its primary sources -- Hussein's own documents and testimony. But the Left's beachhead of "no WMD" has been established -- nothing will be permitted to breach it. They have far too much invested in this, and will continue to marginalize any developing stories as fringe and fanciful far-right attempts to redeem a disaster. The true story is complicated but also quite predictable --a skein of interests intent on keeping, concealing and ultimately trafficing in WMD. But it works on a much simpler level to me: that is, to conceive of a character like Hussein absent such an intention violates some basic, universal truth of character, which if you don't understand in theory, you need only to have seen the man from a distance over the past 30 years to understand in reality.

[island911]

Originally posted by rrpjr
. .. . The true story is complicated but also quite predictable --a skein of interests intent on keeping, concealing and ultimately trafficing in WMD. But it works on a much simpler level to me: that is, to conceive of a character like Hussein absent such an intention violates some basic, universal truth of character, which if you don't understand in theory, you need only to have seen the man from a distance over the past 30 years to understand in reality.

Unfortunately too many here can not fathom a ruthless dictator working in super sneaky stealth mode, with massive hidden agenda --unless that person is GW Bush

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Looks like all them media Democrats lies have been debunked. Democrats lied to undermine a sitting President during wartime.

Democrats lied while poor Iraqis died.

[ZOA NOM]

I said, from the beginning, that anyone who thinks for one microsecond that Saddam was not attached in a very substantial way to terror in general, and Al Qaeda and OBL specifically, they have their head firmly planted in their a$$, or they have an agenda. GW Bush will have his day, and the left will eat their crow.

[fastpat]

Originally posted by rrpjr
But the Left's beachhead of "no WMD" has been established -- nothing will be permitted to breach it.

The beachhead of no WMD's was established before the invasion by the UN Weapons Inspection Teams, then post invasion by the US government weapons search teams, who spent more than 300 million dollars in their futile search.

There were never WMD's in Iraq at the time of the invasion, or after 1998.

And last, there is no connection whatsoever between Iraq and the terrorist organization that is believed to have planned and funded the attacks on American targets on 9/11/2001; and there never was.

[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by fastpat
The beachhead of no WMD's was established before the invasion by the UN Weapons Inspection Teams, then post invasion by the US government weapons search teams, who spent more than 300 million dollars in their futile search.

There were never WMD's in Iraq at the time of the invasion, or after 1998.

And last, there is no connection whatsoever between Iraq and the terrorist organization that is believed to have planned and funded the attacks on American targets on 9/11/2001; and there never was.

Just in case your "fact finding", "research" techniques are proven wrong, it can't hurt to save this quote to make fun of later!

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...that anyone who thinks for one microsecond that Saddam was not attached in a very substantial way to terror in general, and Al Qaeda and OBL specifically, they have their head firmly planted in their a$$, or they have an agenda.

originally posted by fastpat

And last, there is no connection whatsoever between Iraq and the terrorist organization that is believed to have planned and funded the attacks on American targets on 9/11/2001; and there never was.

In a passage not used by "Nightline," Tierney says Saddam declares: "Terrorism is coming. ... In the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What if we consider this technique, with smuggling?"


It's funny, Pat, you make statements as fact, when they are simply your uninformed opinion. It's a lot like the media's method; simply continue to make false statements repeatedly until they become truth in the mind of the listener.

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Hey Mul, if there is thar's gold in them tapes, why isn't Bush pimpin' it on national TV, instead of that cock-and-bull story about terr'ists crashin' jumbo jets into Space Mountain or some *****? I've got stuff in my fridge with more legs than that story.

If they were the shiznit, GWB would interrupt the women's figure skating coverage (I know that would piss you off) to do a big phat "I told you so." Talk about a 'git yer ass out of the sling' card!

If these tapes were anything more than NeoCon Keyboard Groupie wank material, GWB would be all over it like white on rice; his poll numbers could use a nice little boost.

The fact that he hasn't is not the media's fault. He's keeping his mouth shut 'cause ain't got jack *****.

If you think differently, don't waste your breath telling us, tell him. Don't delay - this is a matter of national security!!! You obviously have better sources, which allow you to make more gradiose claims than GWB himself can, so why not help the brotha out and kick down with the intel?

In case you don't have the contact info handy:
(from http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/)

Contacting the White House

Mailing Address

The White House
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Washington, DC 20500

Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

TTY/TDD

Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121

E-Mail: comments@whitehouse.gov.

[island911]

Originally posted by widebody911
If they were the shiznit, GWB would interrupt the women's figure skating coverage. . ..
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Dude, try to keep up. GW is in fact too stupid .. . or stubborn (more likely) to cash in, and flaunt favorable info.

[stuartj]

Mul, you are and your boyz are, collectively, simply terrifying.

I realise you will take that as a compliment. I know this, by virtue of the exercising of the same feroicious logic exhibited when you ask people to prove that there are NOT wmds in Iraq.

Dear Jesus.

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Well there's a logical argument that no WMD ever existed in Iraq.

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stuart...I warn you (no, not a threat, just an eternal reminder), the name of Jesus is not to be taken lightly.

If you walk in the darkness the light escapes you.

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Originally posted by island911
Well there's a logical argument that no WMD ever existed in Iraq.

Howdy Glenn!