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Geheime operatie in Irak
mislukt: honderd doden
CIA probeerde vergeefs
massavernietigings-
wapens te plaatsen

17aug03
Een poging van de CIA om massavernietigingswapens te plaatsen in Irak om ze vervolgens te kunnen 'vinden', is mislukt. De honderd agenten die deze deceptie-opdracht moesten uitvoeren zijn gedood door 'friendly fire'.

Het nieuws werd bekendgemaakt door klokkenluider Nelda Rogers, een vrouw die 28 jaar ervaring heeft als debriefer bij het ministerie van Defensie. 'She has become so concerned for her safety that she decided to tell the story about this latest CIA-military fiasco in Iraq', schrijft CRG. Haar wereldnieuws is vervolgens gepubliceerd door Al Martin in een betaalartikel. Het gerespecteerde CRG, het Centre for Research on Globalisation, schrijft over Martin: '[He] is a retired Lt. Commander (US Navy), the author of a memoir called “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, " and he is considered one of America's foremost experts on corporate and government fraud.'

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Rogers: '“[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 of cash in US dollars, 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.”'. DaanSpeak houdt ook rekening met moedwillige moord nadat om ombekende redenen werd besloten om de operatie te termineren. Wat ook mogelijk is, is verraad door een strijdende factie binnen de CIA of een ander departement.

Zwarte CIA-operatie door ex-militairen
Rogers meldt dat het geheime team was 'manned by ex-military personnel and that “the unit was paid through the Department of Agriculture in order to hide it, which is also very commonplace.”' Dit laatste kan DaanSpeak bevestigen. CRG citeert Martins artikel: '“This was a contingent of CIA/ DoD operatives, but it was really the CIA that bungled it, Ms. Rogers said. [...] “CIA people were supposed to be handling it,” Martin continues. “They had a special ‘black (unmarked) 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. [...] 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.'