mr mahs Posted May 6 Report Share Posted May 6 Everyday France displays that it will do anything to undermine the United States...The French government gave members of Saddam Hussein's regime passports that would allow them to enter Europe and escape the coalition's hunt for top Iraqi officials, The Washington Times reported Tuesday.U.S. intelligence officials told the Times that an unknown number of Iraqi regime members were given French passports by French officials in Syria. The report could not be independently confirmed.French passport holders are able to enter any European Union country without a visa, and are usually granted tourist visas upon entry to many other countries, including the United States.More importantly, Iraqis holding French passports would be able to move freely among the 12 EU countries that are part of the Schengen agreement (search) on unrestricted travel. Britain, Denmark and Ireland are not part of the Schengen pact, but French passport holders can travel from Athens to Lisbon to Berlin without questioning, and can also fly to French overseas possessions (search) in the Caribbean, South America and Pacific and Indian oceans.The reports have angered Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials in Washington, the Times reported, because it indicates French willingness to undermine the search for senior aides to Saddam."It made it very difficult to track these people," one official told the Times.As U.S. troops rolled into Baghdad in the second week of April, many regime members were thought to have fled to Syria.A second Bush administration official told the Times, "It's like Raoul Wallenberg (search) in reverse," a reference to the Swedish diplomat who issued travel documents to help Hungarian Jews avoid deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. "Now you have the French helping the bad guys escape from us."Nathalie Loiseau, a spokeswoman for the French Embassy in Washington, told the Times that French authorities had not issued any visas or passports to Iraqi regime officials since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom."France formally denies this type of allegation, which is not only contrary to reality but is intended to discredit our nation," she said. "It is certainly time for rumors of this type — totally unfounded and a dishonor to those who spread them — to stop."The reports add fuel to the fire over allegations that Paris had been colluding with Baghdad before and during the coalition invasion of Iraq.One report said a French company covertly sold military spare parts to Iraq in the weeks before the war. Another indicated that a French oil company had been working with a Russian oil firm to clinch a deal with Saddam's government at the same time.The Times also said the French government had denied U.S. intelligence reports indicating that a Chinese chemical company used French and Syrian brokers to circumvent U.N. sanctions in providing Iraq with chemicals used in making missile fuel.Pentagon officials were said to be frustrated that few of the most senior leaders identified on the list of top 55 officials of the Saddam regime had been captured.Of those who are in U.S. custody — such as former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz (search) — few have given much information considered helpful. All those captured insist Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.The Bush administration remained optimistic that significant information will be uncovered."I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday, echoing comments made by President Bush on Saturday."I'm not frustrated at all," Rumsfeld said later in another televised interview.Sunday's capture of a top Iraqi biological-weapons scientist, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (search), aka "Mrs. Anthrax," brings to 19 the number of senior Iraqi leaders who have been caught. U.S. officials hope Ammash can provide information detailing Iraq's banned weapons program.Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that he was assured during weekend talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Damascus had turned over Iraqi officials it had been harboring, but he cautioned that the United States may be unaware of others."Some have been made available to us," Powell said on CBS' Face the Nation. "Let me put it that way: Who we knew were there are no longer there. They've been made available to us, and they will be before the bar of justice of the Iraqi people."Powell said Syria has been "helpful" in the past two years in dealing with the war on terrorism, primarily through U.S. and Syrian intelligence liaisons. Numerous reports have detailed Syrian cooperation against Al Qaeda."This is the time for you to locate these individuals and turn them over to Iraqi justice and not allow Syria to become a haven for materials that might be coming out of Iraq still, or came out of Iraq or individuals who are trying to seek haven," Powell said he told Assad.Asked on NBC's Meet the Press if Iraqi officials had fled to Syria, Rumsfeld said, "Oh, there's no question but that they did. Absolutely. ... Some left and went to Syria and stayed, and some have left Iraq, gone to Syria and transited to other countries."Syria in the past several weeks has expelled more than 30 Iraqis, including many from Tikrit (search), Saddam's hometown, the Times reported.After first granting sanctuary to former Iraqi intelligence official Farouk Hijazi (search), Syria turned him over to U.S. officials in Iraq.Congress is considering legislation that would impose economic sanctions on Syria for its support of terrorism. 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normalnoises Posted May 6 Report Share Posted May 6 more white supremacist right wing lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishaolin Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by normalnoises more white supremacist right wing lies. you'll use any excuse, eh? its time to realize that France is not our ally. Our policy towards this scumbag country needs to change immediately. Fuck Chirac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by chrishaolin you'll use any excuse, eh? its time to realize that France is not our ally. Our policy towards this scumbag country needs to change immediately. Fuck Chirac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normalnoises Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by chrishaolin you'll use any excuse, eh? its time to realize that France is not our ally. Our policy towards this scumbag country needs to change immediately. Fuck Chirac! It's time to realize that the US is not our ally. Our policy twords this scumbag country needs to change immediately. Fuck Bush.Fuck you and racists like you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishaolin Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by normalnoises It's time to realize that the US is not our ally. Our policy twords this scumbag country needs to change immediately. Fuck Bush.Fuck you and racists like you. you're delusional. did you eat a few too many paint chips as a kid??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normalnoises Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by chrishaolin you're delusional. did you eat a few too many paint chips as a kid??? No! Wanna do something about it?RACIST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishaolin Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by normalnoises No! Wanna do something about it?RACIST i do what i have to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted May 7 Author Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by normalnoises No! Wanna do something about it?RACIST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 just ignore the freak....he gets off on the attention--deprive the freak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by igloo just ignore the freak....he gets off on the attention--deprive the freak look who's talking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by sassa look who's talking Don't you have better things to do----like, editing your posts to eliminate the fact that you idiotically thought an article based on satire was real.... :laugh: ...fucking imbecile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr mahs Posted May 7 Author Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by igloo Don't you have better things to do----like, editing your posts to eliminate the fact that you idiotically thought an article based on satire was real.... :laugh: ...fucking imbecile Yeah I heard this months Sun has a good article on Martian emmaculate conceptions of goats in the South... :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igloo Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by mr mahs Yeah I heard this months Sun has a good article on Martian emmaculate conceptions of goats in the South... :laugh: :rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Originally posted by igloo :rofl: yes i think everything i read is true...are you happy now.... you are smarter than me, is that what you want to hear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchbread Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 talk about conspiracy theories...all allegations no facts...my favorite part of this article filled with hatred, insinuations and baseless allegations has to be:The report could not be independently confirmed.i love how you are all so eager and ready to swallow any bs story that the news will serve up as long as it bashes on france...meanwhile, the article does nothing more than allegate...no facts, no names, no numbers...if you're going to talk about dirty shit that gov'ts did in this war, you might as well talk about something that is known to be true...for example...let's talk about the fact that our secretary of state presented forged documents to the u.n. when he "made" his case for going to war...i wonder if he got this documents from the same intelligence officials that informed the times for this article...the best part of that debacle was when a week later, the head of the international atomic agency pointed straight at powell (with his finger) and denounced him and his lies...the only thing powell could do was lower his head, and look down at the desk...now i wonder why there were almost no articles about that...i mean that has solid facts and has been more than verified...i also wonder why you guys didn't talk about that...funny how you'd rather talk about shit that france "allegdely" did, than the shit that our own gov't is doing and being caught red-handed in doing...and if you want to talk about companies that deal with terrorist countries, why go all the way to france(again no facts) ...why, we have our great vice president's former company right here: the great halliburton...halliburton and others are doing business with terrorist nations as we speak...(iran, syria...)...and that's no allegation...that's a fact...what could top that off?...well, how about these companies (halliburton, ge and conoco), are using offshore accounts and sub-contractors and so evading taxes to make money in the countries of the axis of evil..in effect using u.s. tax payers' money to make business in the countries we are supposed to be against...(see my other post...thread "halliburton and the axis of evil")... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normalnoises Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Originally posted by igloo Don't you have better things to do----like, editing your posts to eliminate the fact that you idiotically thought an article based on satire was real.... :laugh: ...fucking imbecile Don't you have better things to do----like, jerk off to Bill O'Reilly and shoot your load everytime he comes on FAUX News. Just make sure you aim your jizzum for his mouth. He can't wait to swallow it. :laugh: ...fucking imbecile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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