Editor
17th June 2002, 16:19
Order of Murder to the CIA
US president George Bush gave orders for the elimination of Saddam Hussein
US president George Bush signed an intelligence order at the beginning of the year, in which he instructed the CIA to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein using covert operations. This was reported by the journalist Bob Woodward on Sunday, well-known since his exposing of the Watergate scandal, in the Washington Post (http://www.msnbc.com/news/767687.asp). The order includes the permission for US special forces operating in Iraq to use "deadly force", writes Woodward with reference to "well informed sources". Bush instructs the CIA to "use all (!) available means ". This obviously includes an order to murder the Iraqi president, more so as after Septemper 11th the Bush government officially announced that it was no longer willing within its "war against terror" to adhere to the US law which forbids the murder of foreign heads of state and prominent politician.
Accoring to the report in the Washington Post the US government already spent some millions of dollar on the secret program, which also includes the supporting of different oppositinal groups with money and weapons as well as their military training in and outside of Iraq. At the same time CIA efforts to collect relevant information within the Iraqi government, the military, the security agencies and in the population generally would have multiplied. Nevertheless CIA director George J. Tenet is not very hopeful. He made clear to Bush and his cabinet that without support by military actions and the increased economical and diplomatic pressure on Iraq the CIA would have a highest chance of 10 to 20% to solve the task.
Thus many in the CIA are seeing in the covert operations running at present - the identification of possible military goals, the collection of information and the establishment of contact with possible US-convenient successors of Saddam Hussein in Iraq - as a "preparatory phase" for the planned US attack against Iraq. Bush's intelligence service instruction shows that the US government does not only practice in verbal threats against Iraq, but is also ready to spend much money on actions. Although there are already many plans in the Pentagon for an invasion of Iraq, among other things with an army of up to 250,000 soldiers, president Bush has apparently not yet decided for an option .
In an interview with the British journalist Trevor McDonald on 4th of April, which was published later by the white house itself, Bush expressed his threats against Saddam Hussein most clearly so far, but over its possible proceeding he betrayed nothing until now. Bush was asked, “Have you made up your mind that Iraq must be attacked?” “I made up my mind that Hussein needs to go,” Bush responded. “That’s about all I’m willing to share with you.” Pressed, Bush said, “The policy of my government is that he goes.” Two weeks ago Bush then announced in his speech in front of the military academy in West Point - without naming Iraq yet - that he had the right to lead preventive military attacks against states he suspects are supporters of terrorism .
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-17/003.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, edited [poorly] by CiaranB.
(Edited by Editor at 5:38 pm on June 17, 2002)
US president George Bush gave orders for the elimination of Saddam Hussein
US president George Bush signed an intelligence order at the beginning of the year, in which he instructed the CIA to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein using covert operations. This was reported by the journalist Bob Woodward on Sunday, well-known since his exposing of the Watergate scandal, in the Washington Post (http://www.msnbc.com/news/767687.asp). The order includes the permission for US special forces operating in Iraq to use "deadly force", writes Woodward with reference to "well informed sources". Bush instructs the CIA to "use all (!) available means ". This obviously includes an order to murder the Iraqi president, more so as after Septemper 11th the Bush government officially announced that it was no longer willing within its "war against terror" to adhere to the US law which forbids the murder of foreign heads of state and prominent politician.
Accoring to the report in the Washington Post the US government already spent some millions of dollar on the secret program, which also includes the supporting of different oppositinal groups with money and weapons as well as their military training in and outside of Iraq. At the same time CIA efforts to collect relevant information within the Iraqi government, the military, the security agencies and in the population generally would have multiplied. Nevertheless CIA director George J. Tenet is not very hopeful. He made clear to Bush and his cabinet that without support by military actions and the increased economical and diplomatic pressure on Iraq the CIA would have a highest chance of 10 to 20% to solve the task.
Thus many in the CIA are seeing in the covert operations running at present - the identification of possible military goals, the collection of information and the establishment of contact with possible US-convenient successors of Saddam Hussein in Iraq - as a "preparatory phase" for the planned US attack against Iraq. Bush's intelligence service instruction shows that the US government does not only practice in verbal threats against Iraq, but is also ready to spend much money on actions. Although there are already many plans in the Pentagon for an invasion of Iraq, among other things with an army of up to 250,000 soldiers, president Bush has apparently not yet decided for an option .
In an interview with the British journalist Trevor McDonald on 4th of April, which was published later by the white house itself, Bush expressed his threats against Saddam Hussein most clearly so far, but over its possible proceeding he betrayed nothing until now. Bush was asked, “Have you made up your mind that Iraq must be attacked?” “I made up my mind that Hussein needs to go,” Bush responded. “That’s about all I’m willing to share with you.” Pressed, Bush said, “The policy of my government is that he goes.” Two weeks ago Bush then announced in his speech in front of the military academy in West Point - without naming Iraq yet - that he had the right to lead preventive military attacks against states he suspects are supporters of terrorism .
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-17/003.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, edited [poorly] by CiaranB.
(Edited by Editor at 5:38 pm on June 17, 2002)