German spies aided Saddam?

Dudi, Sonntag, 20. April 2003, 10:57 (vor 7887 Tagen)

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
German spies aided Saddam?
Documents seized in Baghdad point to ties with
Iraq´s intelligence service

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Posted: April 20, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Documents recovered from the bombed Iraqi
intelligence headquarters in Baghdad reveal
Germany´s intelligence services attempted to build
closer ties to Saddam´s secret service during the
build-up to war last year, according to a report
in the London Telegraph.

The documents point to a meeting on January 29,
2002 between an agent named as Johannes William
Hoffner and Lt. Gen. Taher Jalil Haboosh, the
director of Iraq´s intelligence service.

Haboosh indicates the Iraqis are anxious to
cultivate a relationship with Germany´s
intelligence agency ´´under diplomatic cover," and
offers to give lucrative contracts to German
companies if Berlin helps prevent an American
invasion of Iraq. He also urges Hoffner to lobby
the German government to raise its diplomatic
mission in Baghdad to full ambassadorial level,
according to the Telegraph.

´´When the American conspiracy is finished, we
will make a calculation for each state that helps
Iraq in its crisis,´´ Haboosh says. He indicates
he hoped to forge the relationship through
Hoffner, who replies: ´´My organization wants to
develop its relationship with your organization.´´


Haboosh also tells the German agent Iraq has ´´big
problems´´ with Britain and the United States.
´´We have problems with Britain because it
occupied Iraq for 60 years and with America
because of its aggression for 11 years,´´ he says.


The meeting between the Iraqi and German agents
took place some six months before Chancellor
Schroeder´s government began its policy of direct
opposition to the idea of a U.S.-led war against
Iraq. Schroeder was re-elected last September,
largely because of the popularity of his
government´s outspoken opposition to the war.

The revelations about Iraq´s ties to German
intelligence come a week after The Telegraph
reported Russia had spied for the Iraqis, passing
them intelligence about a meeting between Tony
Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime
minister. Both the British and Italian governments
have launched investigations.