Joan of Arc
Iraq Whistleblowers - LADY SOLDIERS
Wed Mar 17 14:11:51 2004
142.163.11.40

THE 'FIRST' RECENT LADY SOLDIER SPEAKING OUT

- WHO RELEASED 'THE NEW PENTAGON PAPERS' LAST WEEK -

WAS: KAREN KWIATKOWSKI (If you missed it:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp/index_np.html  ;
and take a look at the account of the Bush/Media Smear on this lady since at:
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2004/03/15/smear /)

Now there's another woman SPEAKING OUT.


Intro: The following story can only be understood
when you realize that sometimes people's lives are as much in danger
if they say nothing, as if they 'Speak Out'.

In fact, to 'Speak Out' can be a last ditch attempt to save your life,
because if you were to be later found dead from 'suicide', or 'hit-and-run' driver,
or 'car-collision-by-recruited-fooled-patsy' (the latest method) --
the fact that it might by then be well-known that you had been revealing
information which the government wanted secret may be a deterrent
to their killing you. At least that's what the following Retired Navy Lt.
Commander must be hoping, because she's the last of one hundred people
with knowledge of this scandal who are still alive. -- Comment by C.D. Thomson


US tried to plant WMDs, failed:
Says whistleblower

Daily Times Monitor

According to a stunning report posted by a retired Navy Lt Commander and 28-year veteran of the Defense
Department (DoD), the Bush administration’s assurance about finding weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq was based on a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to “plant” WMDs inside the country.
Nelda Rogers, the Pentagon whistleblower, claims the plan failed when the secret mission was mistakenly taken
out by “friendly fire”, the Environmentalists Against War report.

Nelda Rogers is a 28-year veteran debriefer for the DoD. She has become so concerned for her safety that she
decided to tell the story about this latest CIA-military fiasco in Iraq. According to Al Martin Raw.com, “Ms
Rogers is number two in the chain of command within this DoD special intelligence office. This is a ten-person
debriefing unit within the central debriefing office for the Department of Defense.”

The information that is being leaked ou t is information “obtained while she was in Germany heading up the
debriefing of returning service personnel, involved in intelligence work in Iraq for the DoD and/or the CIA.
“According to Ms Rogers, there was a covert military operation that took place both preceding and during the
hostilities in Iraq,” reports Al Martin Raw.com, an online subscriber-based news/analysis service which
provides “Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence”.

Al Martin is a retired Lt Commander (US Navy), the author of a memoir called “The Conspirators: Secrets of
an Iran-Contra Insider,” and is considered one of America’s foremost experts on corporate and government
fraud. Ms Rogers reports that this particular covert operation team was manned by former military personnel
and “the unit was paid through the Department of Agriculture in order to hide it, which is also very
commonplace”.

According to Al Martin Raw.com, “the Agriculture Department has often been used as a paymaster o n behalf
of the CIA, DIA, NSA and others”. According to the Al Martin Raw.com story, another aspect of Ms Rogers’
report concerns a covert operation which was to locate the assets of Saddam Hussein and his family, including
cash, gold bullion, jewelry and assorted valuable antiquities. The problem became evident when “the operation
in Iraq involved 100 people, all of whom apparently are now dead, having succumbed to so-called ‘friendly
fire’. The scope of this operation included the penetration of the Central Bank of Iraq, other large commercial
banks in Baghdad, the Iraqi National Museum and certain presidential palaces where monies and bullion were
secreted.”

“They identified about $2 billion in cash, another $150 million in Euros, in physical banknotes, and about
another $100 million in sundry foreign currencies ranging from Yen to British Pounds,” reports Al Martin.

“These people died, mostly in the same place in Baghdad, supposedly from a stray cruise missile or a
combination of missiles and bombs that went astray,” Martin continues. “There were supposedly 76 who died
there and the other 24 died through a variety of ‘friendly fire’, ‘mistaken identity’ and some of them—their
whereabouts are simply unknown.” Ms Rogers’ story sounds like an updated 21st-century version of Treasure
Island meets Ali Baba and the Bush Cabal Thieves, writes Martin.

“This was a contingent of CIA/ DoD operatives, but it was really the CIA that bungled it,” Ms Rogers said.
“They were relying on the CIA’s ability to organise an effort to seize these assets and to be able to extract these

assets because the CIA claimed it had resources on the ground within the Iraqi army and the Iraqi government
who had been paid. That turned out to be completely bogus. As usual.”

“CIA people were supposed to be handling it,” Martin continues. “They had a special ‘black’ aircraft to fly it
out. But none of that happened because the regular US Army showed up, stumbled onto it and everyone
involved had to scramble. These new Iraqi “asset seizures” go directly to the New US Ruling Junta. The US
Viceroy in Iraq Paul Bremer is reportedly drinking Saddam’s $2000 a bottle Napoleon-era brandy, smoking his

expensive Davidoff cigars and he has even furnished his office with Saddam’s Napoleon-era furniture.

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