SADDAM'S ULTRA-LOYAL Fedayeen martyrs were ordered to carry out bombings and assassinations in London, Iran, and "self ruled areas" of Iraq in May 1999, according to a newly released Iraqi intelligence document. One such operation, codenamed "Tamooz Mubarak" or "Blessed July," was apparently intended to hunt down Iraqi dissidents and bomb other unspecified locations....'Blessed July,' Thomas Joscelyn, Daily Standard, 3/24/2006
What was the new Director of National Intelligence thinking in not releasing these documents a year ago? Is bureaucratic inertia that bad? One is reminded of the last scene in an Indiana Jones movie, when the rediscovered Ark of the Covenant, dutifully crated, is stored with half a million other similar crates. That was just a movie, of course. But this wasn't. Instead it was material significant in a struggle that is literally about the life and future of the West. One hopes that Director Negroponte isn't inadvertently sitting on a tape where Saddam and Osama are toasting each other about 9/11. Plots hatch; buried intelligence doesn't.
Luther
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