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Document Dated 2/7/01 Gives CNN Preferential Coverage

This document is dated in early 2001, about seven months before the attacks of 9/11.

Two things: one the hoot that loyal American cable news network CNN was to be given priority for all Iraq coverage. The second interesting thing is the discussion of a plan to blame the mass graves (that we now know our soldiers found) on the coalition forces from the 1991 Gulf War.

What's intriguing is why Iraq would be worried about the necessity of concocting this lie. For in early 2001 there hadn't been any major discussion of invading Iraq.

Now after 9/11/01 such a thing was discussed quite often and quite loudly.

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Saddam Regime Document: Give CNN the Priority for Coverage

In this Iraqi document ISGQ 2004-00224003 dated February 7 2001, there was a discussion in upper echelon of the Iraqi intelligence about mass graves in Southern Iraq and how to shift the blame to the Coalition forces and make it look like these mass graves as the results massacres committed by the Coalition forces back in 1991 during Desert Storm Operation. What is also interesting about this document is that it mentions how to give the priority of covering the story to CNN so it will have an effect on the international arena as the documents says.

I did a partial translation of the document highlight the statement related to CNN in bold letters in the body of the translation. The rest of this 3 pages document that I did not translate will go into further deception on how to make big military funerals for the people in the mass graves though out all the Iraq provinces and how high level state officials will participate in these funerals.

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