ROUTLEDGE: SMOKING GUN STINKS OF SPOOKS

Apr 28 2003

Paul Routledge Chief Political Commentator 

CALL me a cynic, as many do, but I have great difficulty in believing 
all the top-secret files cascading from the bombed-out ministries of 
Baghdad.  

Here they are, just lying around on the floor waiting for eagle-eyed 
reporters to pick them up and phone their news editor.  

Even more amazingly, every single document points the guilty finger 
at Saddam's regime and those who questioned the Anglo- American war 
against Iraq.  

They expose the perfidy of President Putin, the chicanery of President 
Chirac, the knavery of German intelligence, the alleged greed of George 
Galloway MP, and the terrorist link-up with the head of al-Qaeda.  

How fortunate! What a coincidence! And how convenient they should all 
be discovered by journalists working for papers that back Bush all the 
way.  

Of course, there could be another explanation. It could be that the 
security services, in this business up to their ears, have had a hand.  

SO far, the much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction have not been 
found. The Iraqi dictator has not been found. Nor has Osama bin Laden.  

And if they cannot be found, what better than hard, documentary 
evidence that can be splashed all over friendly newspapers?  

The reaction of the CIA to yesterday's latest exposure, purporting 
to establish a Saddam-Osama connection, is illuminating.  

"This sounds like a find," said an official. A find? Is that all he 
can say? If true, this is not just a smoking gun, but a whole battery 
of smoking artillery.  

Forgive me if I smile, but where was the CIA when the headquarters 
of the Mukhabarat, Iraq's secret service, fell to advancing American 
troops more than two weeks ago?  

Does anybody expect me to believe they simply left these buildings 
to the tender mercies of western journalists, practically none of 
whom read Arabic?  

Pull the other one. It has depleted-uranium bells on it.

Naturally, I may be wrong. But this fascinating exercise in war 
justification has all the hallmarks of the dirty tricks fusiliers.  

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Cheers, Steve..

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