Iraqi Documents
The rightwing blogosphere continues to selectively quote and misrepresent these documents as "smoking gun" proof that they were right all along.
Ray Robison headlines:
Saddam's WMD and terrorist connections all proven in one document!!!
The al-Quds liberation army division supplied us with information....as follows.
1. The Iraqi government will distribute the same leaflets that the American forces are distributing but it will contain anthrax.
2. Iraq imports uniforms resembling American forces uniforms for the purpose of killing Iraqi citizens....
3. Dig trenches around Baghdad...oil...burning...cause mayhem
But look at the document itself: IZSP-2003-00003336
The document itself actually begins:
The Al-Quds liberation army division supplied us with information (open source) (impaired broadcast) as follows:This is not completely clear and hopefully Professor Juan Cole or someone else who knows Arabic will check the translation. Looking at the document in its entirety it does appear that the source is repeating rumors and news reports.
