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German Television Documentary: “Iraq War
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“Two German intelligence agents in Baghdad obtained
a copy of Saddam Hussein’s plan to defend the Iraqi capital, which a German
official passed on to American commanders a month before the invasion,
according to a classified study by the United States military. In providing
the Iraqi document, German intelligence officials offered more significant
assistance to the United States than their government has publicly
acknowledged. The plan gave the American military an extraordinary window
into Iraq’s top-level deliberations, including where and how Mr. Hussein
planned to deploy his most loyal troops. […] But the German government was an
especially vociferous critic of the Bush administration’s decision to use
military force to topple Mr. Hussein. While the German government has said
that it had intelligence agents in Baghdad during the war, it has insisted it
provided only limited help to the United States-led coalition. […]” Excerpt
of a New York Times article
from February 27th, 2006. |
Saddam Hussein’s defense plan |
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External view: link file format: .flv (19,6 MB) |
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Transcript of the Documentary September 23rd, 2008 - Beitrag: Deutschland als
US-Informant Broadcast
transcript from ZDF (German television) (in German) |
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German War Sub-Contractors |
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Gerhard Schröder |
Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
Joschka Fischer |
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Photo Credits The Video 1) The video “Iraq War - Germany as U.S. Informant”
was part of a broadcast of the television newsmagazine “Frontal 21” on the German
state channel “ZDF” (“Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen”). The segment was aired on
September 23rd, 2008. The official website can be found here. Background 1) Saddam Hussein’s plan for the defense of Baghdad,
obtained by German agents and provided to the United States in February 2003,
a month before the war, according to a study by the American military. - February
2003 - Source unknown/Published in the New York Times on February 27th,
2006; German War Sub-Contractors 1) Gerhard
Schröder, SPD, Bundeskanzler a. D./former German chancellor - Date unknown -
Deutscher Bundestag/German parliament; 2) Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, former head of the Office of the Chancellor and current German
Foreign minister - Date unknown - photothek.net/Die Bundesregierung/German federal
government; 3) Joseph “Joschka” Fischer, Die Grünen/Green Party,
Bundesminister a. D./former German foreign minister - Date unknown - Deutscher
Bundestag/German parliament; |
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