Re: Bought and Paid For

[Jon Gabriel]

From: "J.D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bought and Paid For
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:08:49 -0800 (PST)

AT WAR

The Inspections Dodge
Why are France and Germany pro-Saddam? Follow the
money.

BY KHIDHIR HAMZA
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST

Unfortunately, you can't take this as gospel because Hamza is a controversial source. The man's spoken before the House or Representatives and has been featured by CNN (including an interview I read with Caspar Weinberger a long time ago). Yet, IIRC several times he has not been borne out when it comes to predictions about Iraq. He's been out of the country for 9 years and his read of the country can't be considered truly accurate anymore.

A contrasting, somewhat ranty read:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00013.htm

Excerpt:
Who is Khidhir Hamza?
By Firas Al-Atraqchi
It's all about money and exposure.

This week Khidhir Hamza, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, testified before a U.S. Senate panel investigating Iraq's nuclear armaments. Hamza told U.S. Senators that Iraq was three years away from creating up to three atomic bombs. Containment would not work with Iraq, Hamza claims. He strongly suggested regime change.

Hamza was joined by famed Oscar-nominee (former UNSCOM weapons inspector) Richard Butler. Butler so vehemently implicated Iraq behind the anthrax spread last fall that CNN rewarded him with a permanent chair next to the 'sexy' Paula Zahn. Since then no evidence has emerged that implicates Iraq or any foreign country. In fact, recent news reports seem to indicate that the anthrax spores were home grown.


Jon
On another List, we'd be asking:
Is Hamza A Git?"
:)

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