20051116
OCCUPIED UBAYDI, Iraq - Five marines were killed and 11 were wounded in an ambush at a farmhouse on the outskirts of this rural town while they were hunting for "insurgents".
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/international/middleeast/16cnd-marines.html
It was the deadliest day for the Marines since beginning an aggressive sweep on Nov. 5 for guerrillas near the Syrian border.
Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, today apologized to his newspaper's executive editor for waiting two years to tell him that a senior Bush administration official had told him about the C.I.A. operative Valerie Wilson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16cnd-woodward.html?hp&ex=1132203600&en=fc9686e76884eb36&ei=5094&partner=homepage
"I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter, and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal," he said. "There's a lot of innocent actions in all of this."
According to U.S. intelligence sources, the White House exposure of Valerie Plame and her Brewster Jennings & Associates was intended to retaliate against the CIA's work in limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. WMR has reported in the past on this aspect of the scandal. In addition to identifying the involvement of individuals in the White House who were close to key players in nuclear proliferation, the CIA Counter-Proliferation Division prevented the shipment of binary VX nerve gas from Turkey into Iraq in November 2002. The Brewster Jennings network in Turkey was able to intercept this shipment which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. intelligence sources revealed that this was a major reason the Bush White House targeted Plame and her network.
http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-really-good-shit.html
Brewster Jennings CIA counter-proliferation network prevented a WMD "salting" operation by Bush White House in Iraq. In fact, U.S. intelligence sources report that the first shipment of VX nerve gas to Saddam Hussein was carried out between 1988 and 1989. The gas was shipped to Iraq by a U.S. company that was established in 1987 -- The Carlyle Group.
A U.S. official disbelieved Israel's assurances during the Cold War that it would avoid acquiring nuclear weapons and feared the United States' main ally in the region would spark a Middle East nuclear arms race, documents from that time show.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Nixon-Papers.html?hp&ex=1132203600&en=71e9fedf9d97021a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Among those dangers: ''Israel's possession of nuclear weapons would do nothing to deter Arab guerrilla warfare or reduce Arab irrationality; on the contrary it would add a dangerous new element to Arab-Israeli hostility with added risk of confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.'' ¶ 16.11.05
