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I usually try to steer clear of dry documentation!
This file is an old 'find' from when Rumsfeld was exiting Defence : a War Game outlining the likely consequences of invading Iraq. I didn't realize at that time it was a Clinton-era plan. 'Post-Saddam Iraq : Desert Crossing' ( new URL) seems more like a cautionary tale than a pattern which can be repeated to overthrow governments.
There is also an update from State to look over
New State Department Releases on the "Future of Iraq" Project
Finally, the Search itself had interesting data surface
Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game
Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game. "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed 400,000 Troops and
Still a Mess. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 207. ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB207/
White House Ignored CIA Warnings on Iraq
... Washington, DC, October 13, 2005 - The White House disregarded intelligence projections
on post-Saddam Iraq according to a newly-declassified CIA report, ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051013/
State Department experts warned CENTCOM before Iraq war about lack ...
... cable announces the establishment of 15 "Future of Iraq Project" working groups
to prepare for the transition to a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, adding that ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB163/
Saddam's Iron Grip: Intelligence Reports on Saddam Hussein's Reign
... State Department experts warned CENTCOM before Iraq war about lack of plans for
post-war Iraq security Planning for post-Saddam regime change began as early as ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB167/
New State Department Releases on the "Future of Iraq" Project
... from the USG, which might have negative consequences both for the participants and
for the interests of the US government in post-Saddam Iraq." (See 20020001 ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB198/
TOP SECRET POLO STEP - Iraq War Plan Assumed Only 5,000 US Troops ...
... "Completely unrealistic assumptions about a post-Saddam Iraq permeate these war
plans," said National Security Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton. ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/
The Communitarian Network
... Scott Feil (Ret.) at congressional hearings, to keep the peace in post-Saddam Iraq
we may need 75,000 troops, which amounts to three divisions (the military ...
www.gwu.edu/~ccps/etzioni/B432.html
US Intelligence and Iraq WMD
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/
GW Tip Sheet
... Post War Iraq. Steven L. Schooner. Associate Professor of Law; Co-Director
of the Government Procurement Law Program. Professor Schooner ...
www.gwu.edu/~media/tipsheets/Iraq-PostWar.cfm
GW Tip Sheet
Post War Iraq. Steven L. Schooner. Associate Professor of Law; Co-Director
of the Government Procurement Law Program. Professor Schooner ...
www.gwu.edu/~media/tipsheets/Iraq-PostWar.html
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Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/
Iraq: The Media War Plan
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB219/
Kissinger's "Salted Peanuts" and the Iraq War
... State Department experts warned CENTCOM before Iraq war about lack of plans for
post-war Iraq security Planning for post-Saddam regime change began as early as ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20061001/
US Military Hoped for Virtually Unlimited Freedom of Action in ...
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB252/
The Record on CURVEBALL
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB234/
Eyes on Saddam
Pre- and post-strike overhead imagery of an Iraqi military headquarters compound.
Eyes on Saddam US Overhead Imagery of Iraq. National ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB88/index2.htm
GW Tip Sheet: Iraq and Saddam Hussein
... Impact on US Politics. Government Contracts and Contractors. Post Saddam Iraq. General
Analysis of Military Campaign. Media Coverage of War and Hussein's Capture ...
www.media.gwu.edu/tipsheets/Iraq.cfm
Research - The Elliott School of International Affairs
... Saddam is Iraq: Iraq is Saddam, in Know Thy Enemy: Leadership and Strategic Culture
in an Asymmetric Security Environment, Post, J and Schneider, B (eds.), US ...
www.gwu.edu/~elliott/research/articles/articles02.cfm
“The Kalb Report” Features Sen. Hillary Clinton
... of the facts about the war in Iraq and in ... going to happen once we toppled Saddam
Hussein,” Clinton ... of their planning in respects to a post-Saddam era.” The ...
www.gwu.edu/~bygeorge/051204/kalb.html
[PDF] A Neo-Communitarian Approach to International Relations: Rights ...
... Saddam Iraq and post-Taliban Afghanistan, Zn&es.em&, the collapse of the
police state, and the fact that outside powerg wk& dieto
www.gwu.edu/.../etzioni/documents/A363-RightsandtheGood.pdf
Eyes on Saddam
... US Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999. Pre- and post-strike overhead imagery of an Iraqi
military headquarters compound. Eyes on Saddam US Overhead Imagery of Iraq. ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB88/
[PDF] 2007 Annual Report- publisher.pub
... including such newsmaking revelations as the declassified August 2002 PowerPoint
Iraq war plans based on unrealistic assumptions about post-Saddam Iraq; a link ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/2007%20Annual%20Report.pdf
[PDF] 2005 Annual Report- publisher
... program) where the analysis was wrong, but apparently paid little attention to
intelligence on cultural and political issues (post-Saddam Iraq), where the ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/2005%20Annual%20Report.pdf
[PDF] Transitional Justice in Iraq
... process would decide the final disposition of Saddam Hussein and ... the transition to
a more open and stable Iraq. ... A review of these post-war courts reveals that ...
www.gwu.edu/~iar/articles/2005/WS05_Iraq.pdf
[PDF] Turkey's Role in the Middle East
... Erdogan in his visit to the United States in January 2004, Turkey also desires that
a strong, democratic nation emerge in any post-Saddam Iraq—a viewpoint ...
www.gwu.edu/~iar/articles/2005/WS05_Turkey.pdf
Saddam Hussein: More Secret History
... undermining of Iraqi-US relations' is now apparent." Two days later, representatives
of Bechtel, which remains a major presence in post-Saddam Iraq, met with ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB107/
Washington Post Profiles the Archive
... government documents has a fountain-of-youth effect." Among the Archive documents
cited by the Post are the following: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080508/
Electronic Briefing Books
... by December 2006. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed
400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. New State Department ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
[PDF] Issue Brief for Congress
... for Iraq war crimes is formed. The Washington Post reported October 30, 2002 that
the Bush Administration is gathering information for a post-Saddam trial for ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80/wmd21.pdf
GW Tip Sheet
... Professor of International Affairs and a Research Professor of Political Psychology
Dr. Post is the author of several psychological profiles of Saddam Hussein. ...
www.media.gwu.edu/tipsheets/Iraq-Saddam.cfm
National Security Archive News
... Safe for Democracy. 2006/11/04 Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game "Desert Crossing"
1999 Assumed 400,000 Troops and Still a Mess. 2006/10 ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/
[PDF] Iraq and Iran: Society, Politics, War and Peace
... at http://www.nytimes.com); The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost ... o Adeed Dawisha,
“Identity and Political Survival in Saddam’s Iraq,” Middle East ...
www.gwu.edu/~imes/documents/IAFF-358.11.pdf
GW News Center
... spent time in Iraq as the Post's Pentagon correspondent ... even though when the statues
of Saddam fell in ... Both authors agreed that the struggle for Iraq' s future ...
www.gwu.edu/~media/pressview.cfm?ann_id=23812
Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
... 1971-1998 and in the post-inspection era (1998-2002). Other parts of the document
concern the history of UN weapons inspections and "Iraq under Saddam Hussein ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80/
Iraqi War Criminals
... Louis Post-Dispatch, January 8, 1992, p.1C). ... Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The
US Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984 -- National Security Archive Electronic ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20030320/
GW In The News
... at The National Security Archive at GW, was quoted by The Post Standard ( Syracuse ,
NY ) about the history of US relations with Iraq under Saddam Hussein (12 ...
www.gwu.edu/~media/InTheNews/12-31-03.cfm
University Relations: GW Factsheet
... at The National Security Archive at GW, was quoted by The Post Standard ( Syracuse ,
NY ) about the history of US relations with Iraq under Saddam Hussein (12 ...
www.gwu.edu/~media/InTheNews/12-31-03.html
[MS WORD] Hist
... to Role in Policing Postwar Iraq,” Washington Post, May 2, 2003. Part 2, May 5:
how to handle the past of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime: Trials in Iraq? ...
www.gwu.edu/~history/docs/HHarrison_hist251.doc
[PDF] DCI’s Worldwide Threat Briefing The Worldwide Threat 2004 ...
... Iraqis will decide their own future and choose the first sovereign post-Saddam
government ... His religious pronouncements show that, above all, he wants Iraq to be ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051021/030904tenet.pdf
[PDF] Prepared by the US Department of State September 1999
... under the regime of Saddam Hussein, Iraq continues to repress its people, threaten
the region, and obstruct international efforts to provide humanitarian relief ...
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB167/13.pdf
I would like you to consider that notes include the idea that the War game was the 'Bible' for Iraq : hardly what I usually think of as 'ignoring' something.
Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case exposes Turkish blackmail & espionage complex, Valerie Plame, Jan Shakowsky..
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A Pakistani-based proliferation network centered around nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan and the ISI intelligence agency begins to use Turkish fronts to acquire technology in the US. This move is made because it is thought Turks are less likely to attract suspicion than Pakistanis. At one point the operation is headed by ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed. According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, intercepted communications show Mahmood and his colleagues stationed in Washington are in constant contact with attachés at the Turkish embassy. Edmonds will also say that venues such as the American Turkish Council (ATC), a Washington-based lobby group, are used for handovers, and packages containing nuclear secrets are then delivered by Turkish operatives, using their cover as members of the diplomatic and military community, to contacts at the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Edmonds will also allege: “Certain greedy Turkish operators would make copies of the material and look around for buyers. They had agents who would find potential buyers.” [Sunday Times (London), 1/6/2008]
Entity Tags: Pakistan Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, American-Turkish Council, Mahmood Ahmed, Sibel Edmonds
Timeline Tags: A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
Category Tags: Sibel Edmonds, Pakistan and the ISI, Pakistani Nukes & Islamic Militancy, Mahmood Ahmed
A Pakistani-based proliferation network centered around nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan and the ISI intelligence agency begins to use Turkish fronts to acquire technology in the US. This move is made because it is thought Turks are less likely to attract suspicion than Pakistanis. At one point the operation is headed by ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed. According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, intercepted communications show Mahmood and his colleagues stationed in Washington are in constant contact with attachés at the Turkish embassy. Edmonds will also say that venues such as the American Turkish Council (ATC), a Washington-based lobby group, are used for handovers, and packages containing nuclear secrets are then delivered by Turkish operatives, using their cover as members of the diplomatic and military community, to contacts at the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Edmonds will also allege: “Certain greedy Turkish operators would make copies of the material and look around for buyers. They had agents who would find potential buyers.” [Sunday Times (London), 1/6/2008]
Entity Tags: Pakistan Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, American-Turkish Council, Mahmood Ahmed, Sibel Edmonds
Timeline Tags: A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network
Category Tags: Sibel Edmonds, Pakistan and the ISI, Pakistani Nukes & Islamic Militancy, Mahmood Ahmed
Marc Grossman at an American-Turkish Council meeting in 2005. [Source: Canal+]An unnamed high-ranking State Department official tips off members of a nuclear smuggling ring about a CIA operation to penetrate it, according to FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds will later leave the FBI, becoming a whistleblower, and will say she knows this based on telephone conversations she translated. The ring is headed by Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan, and includes Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, as well as Turkish and Israeli representatives. The official is said to tell a member of the ring that a company the ring wants to do business with, Brewster Jennings & Associates, is a CIA front company. Brewster Jennings & Associates is a front for Valerie Plame Wilson, who will later be outed as a CIA officer in 2003, and possibly other operatives. A group of Turkish agents come to the US on the pretext of researching alternative energy sources and are introduced to Brewster Jennings through a lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC). The Turks apparently believe Brewster Jennings are energy consultants and plan to hire them. According to Edmonds, the State Department official finds out about this and contacts a foreign target under FBI surveillance, telling him, “[Y]ou need to stay away from Brewster Jennings because they are a cover for the government.” The FBI target then warns several people about Brewster Jennings, including a person at the ATC and an ISI agent, and Plame Wilson is moved to another operation.
Comments and Denial - The Sunday Times will comment: “If the ISI was made aware of the CIA front company, then this would almost certainly have damaged the investigation into the activities of Khan. Plame [Wilson]‘s cover would also have been compromised, although Edmonds never heard her name mentioned on the intercepts.” The unnamed State Department official will deny the allegations, calling them “false and malicious.” Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi will comment: “It’s pretty clear Plame [Wilson] was targeting the Turks. If indeed that [State Department] official was working with the Turks to violate US law on nuclear exports, it would have been in his interest to alert them to the fact that this woman’s company was affiliated to the CIA. I don’t know if that’s treason legally but many people would consider it to be.” [Sunday Times (London), 1/27/2008]
Official Said to be Marc Grossman - The high-ranking State Department official who is not named in the Sunday Times is said to be Marc Grossman by both Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story and Giraldi, writing in the American Conservative. [Raw Story, 1/20/2008; American Conservative, 1/28/2008]
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