CIA and DOD Attempted To Plant WMDs in Iraq — and Failed
July 2, 2003

Pentagon Whistleblower Reveals CIA/DoD Fiascos

According to a stunning report posted by a retired Navy Lt. Commander
and 28-year veteran of the Defense Department, the Bush administration's
assurance about finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was based
on a 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."

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A DoD whistleblower details an attempt by a covert US team to plant
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The team was later killed by
friendly fire due to CIA incompetence. In a world exclusive, Al Martin
Raw.com http://www.almartinraw.com/ has published a news story about
a Department of Defense whistleblower who has revealed that a US covert
operations team had planted "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) in Iraq,
then "lost" them when the team was killed by so-called "friendly fire."

The Pentagon whistleblower, Nelda Rogers, is a 28-year veteran
debriefer for the Defense Department. 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 out is information "obtained
while she was in Germany heading up the debriefing of returning service
personnel, involved in intelligence work in Iraq for the Department of
Defense and/or the Central Intelligence Agency. "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 he
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 ex-military personnel and that "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 Ag Department has often been used
as a paymaster on behalf of the CIA, DIA, and NSA and others." Accordng
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 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."

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 organize 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 (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. These new Iraqi "Asset Seizures" go directly
to the New US Ruling Junta.

The US Viceroy in Iraq Paul Bremer is reportedly drinking Saddam
Hussein's $2000 a bottle Napoleon-era brandy, smoking his expensive
Davidoff cigars and he has even furnished his Baghdad office with
Saddam's Napoleon-era antique furniture.

The Iraq Debacle Du Jour has evidently been extensively documented by
the DIA debriefing teams with "extensive tape recordings of interviews
with the Iraqi returnees, the covert operatives (as well as their affidavits)."
Al Martin Raw.com has dubbed this "Operation Skim Iraq."