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Saturday, January 7

Pundita Uncut

Pundita Uncut is for readers who are already familiar with Pundita essays. Posting at the new blog will be erratic. Don't look for essay quality writings, Pundita's team, Pundita's famous patience with lame questions, or Pundita's charm and graciousness.

Pundita Uncut will be notes, quick takes, and updates on Pundita's doings.

Two posts up today at the new blog.

http://punditauncut.blogspot.com/

Happy New Year and best regards to all,
Pundita

Found: Saddam Hussein WMD tapes

From Intelligence Summit Press Release 1/6/06

"A former military intelligence analyst, who currently works as a civilian contractor, believes he has found a cache of extremely confidential--and very shocking--audio recordings of Saddam Hussein's office meetings. The audiotapes, which had apparently been overlooked, were found in a warehouse along with many other untranslated Iraqi intelligence files. These tapes are extremely significant, since they may be the best evidence yet of Saddam's secret intentions concerning weapons of mass destruction.

Before 9/11, many intelligence experts were convinced that a very strong and important Iraqi WMD connection existed, only to change their minds when no concrete evidence of that connection could be uncovered in the three years following the beginning of Iraqi war.

Because of the considerable historical importance of this stunning recent development, the contractor who obtained and reviewed these tapes plans to release them to the public on February 17, 2006 at the Intelligence Summit, a non-partisan, non-profit conference open to the public, scheduled to be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia that weekend.

After his presentation, a panel of intelligence experts will discuss the ways in which experts may verify the fact that Hussein in fact recorded these audiotapes. These procedures include utilization of voiceprint analysis and other technical means of voice verification. [...]

In regard to these highly confidential audiotapes, Attorney John Loftus, President of the Intelligence Summitsm, recently stated that, "Saddam's secret office recordings continued well into the year 2000. In all, they contain at least 12 hours of totally candid discussions with his senior aides. Clearly, after these tapes have been verified and corroborated, they will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important-and controversial-weapons of mass destruction questions." Loftus went on to say that the contractor who found and recovered the tapes has requested that his identity remain anonymous until he makes his presentation. [...]"

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/

For info on the summit:

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/