Honestly, I don't want to turn this pseudo-blog into Judy Miller Watch, but her latest article, "Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.S. Inspectors," really has me scratching my head.
Is 61-year-old Nissar Hindawi, "a leading figure in Iraq's biological warfare program in the '80s," the "silver bullet" she reported on last week? Remember? He's the guy in nondescript clothes and baseball cap who pointed to several spots in the sand where chemical precursors were buried. If so, Miller says he "was not aware of Syrian-Iraqi cooperation on unconventional weapons" -- precisely the opposite of what her original article claimed -- and there is no mention of recent Al Qaeda-Iraqi cooperation, something she also said the "scientist" told her military minders.
If Hindawi is not the "scientist," then WTF is this this article doing in yesterday's Times? Hindawi has only firsthand knowledge of Iraq's biological weapons program -- and alleged lies to U.N. inspectors -- from 1986 to 1989, the a period in which the U.S. was illegally arming Saddam Hussein.
UPDATE: Embedded super-reporter Judith Miller reveals Raiders won 2003 Super Bowl
A respected accountant who is a member of the Sausalito chapter of the Oakland Raiders Fan Club has told a friend who told his cousin who told this reporter that he (the respected accountant) has provided evidence to the National Football League that the Raiders nipped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2003 Super Bowl.posted by dack
1)How come it is safe to give out Nissar Hindawi's name but not the nondescript guy in a baseball cap?
2)How come it was 2 fridays ago when intelligence confirfmed the "scientist's identity with experts in the Untied States" but the DOD still won't confirm it?
3)Even after MET Alpha, not Miller, described him as "their most important discovery to date"?
4)How would a scientist from a lab have any idea where the weapons went?
5)I'll bet the only ev they ever come up with for this is sat photos of a burning building and a bribed low ranking scientist (probably a grad student or something).
6)Nothing wrong woth the Miller watch, particularly since Bush seems to quote the baseball player.
Dack,
you focus too much on the story. read the headline; they lied to the un.
"There may be weapons and there may not be. But it will be clear that they were pursuing WMD actively," one unnamed administration official told the New York Times.
The point was lent further weight by an interview the paper conducted with Nissar al-Hindawi, described as a central figure in Iraq's biological warfare programme in the 1980s who stayed in touch with the issue, through his students, until the war started.
-from the Guardian story (4-28) on the Rational Enquirer home page entitled "Iraqi weapons general arrested..."
Posted by: on April 28, 2003 10:17 AMCNN vetted by Saddam, Judith Miller is vetted by the Pentagon, David Brock is a pathological liar, UK government plagiarizes, US passes off forgeries, Iraqi scientist lies -- can't believe any of them. Have faith. Feel good.
Posted by: on April 28, 2003 11:54 PMI don't believe the Raiders won. But if I hear it on Fox News for a few weeks then I might end up being convinced.
Posted by: on April 29, 2003 02:18 PM