Dutch Foreign Minister: Feith Named Unknown Dutch Company in Iraq/Al Qaeda Report

[sabra]

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2007/SASC.Feithslides.040507.pdf

http://www.nisnews.nl/public/230507_2.htm

Minister: US Named Unknown Dutch Company in Iraq Report

THE HAGUE, 23/05/07 - Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen has said in a letter to parliament that Vlemmo NV does not exist as far as he knows. This company was named by US authorities as a link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden.

On or around 25 July 2002, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (OUSDP) of the US gave a briefing entitled 'Assessing the Relationship Between Iraq and al-Qaida'. This alternative intelligence report wrote that Osama Bin Laden's al-Hijra Company had contacts with the Netherlands-based company Vlemmo NV, which was allegedly involved in the purchase by Iraq of military equipment, Verhagen confirmed.

But "the company Vlemmo is unknown in the Netherlands," according to the minister. "The company has never been registered with the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and is also not known to the tax service. That the company may have served as a front for illegal arms trade with Iraq is equally unknown to me."

The 2002 OUSDP report was made public last month by the chairman of the US Senate's defence committee, Carl Levin. "The contents of the intelligence report has only become known to me following the recent publication of the document," said Verhagen.

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1. K&R

[Richard Steele]

2. So, is this some more fake "intelligence" used to justify the illegal invasion?

A typo? An honest mistake?

I can't help but think that there's some interesting stuff
just under the surface of this one.

[hobbit709]

3. You can't use the word "honest"

in any discussion involving the neocons.

[Richard Steele]

4. True. I debated with myself about using that phrase.

I decided to leave it in on the grounds that the initial
report may have been written by some low-level intel analyst
and not an actual member of B*shcabal™. So I figured the
question mark was enough CYA for it.

[Patsy Stone]

5. Vlemmo?

That was the best name Feith could make up? :eyes: