Iraq war leaks: The hits keep on coming


Recently, I've posted a few articles regarding the revelations described in the Downing Street Memos, documents that were released by an anonymous source in the British government. The upshot of the DSMs, written in July of 2002 is that the US and UK governments were doctoring intelligence months before the war started.

This recent news (this time, about revelations from a source in the American military) suggests that's false:

By July of 2002 the war had started already. In secret.

General admits to secret air war
(Times Online) THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.

Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected targets” before the war officially started.

The nine months of allied raids “laid the foundations” for the allied victory, Moseley said. They ensured that allied forces did not have to start the war with a protracted bombardment of Iraqi positions.


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Posted: Mon - June 27, 2005 at 07:31 AM   | Category:     |   |   | |


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