ناجي صبري الحديثي
ناجي صبري أحمد الحديثي، وزير خارجية العراق في عهد الرئيس الراحل صدام حسين حتى غزوالعراق عام 2003.
بداياته
صبري كان أستاذ الأدب الإنگليزي بجامعة بغداد، قبل حتى يعمل في المخط الصحفي للسفارة العراقية بلندن.
غزوالعراق
عميل للمخابرات المركزية الأمريكية
In March 2006, NBC Nightly News reported that Naji Sabri was, indeed, the "source who had direct access to Saddam and his inner circle" of which former United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet had once boasted. In April 2006, former CIA officer Tyler Drumheller said in a 60 Minutes interview that a very senior Iraqi official had indeed given the CIA information with regards to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. 60 Minutes verified that the source was Sabri.
For a short time before the 2003 invasion, the CIA maintained French-sponsored, third-party contact with Sabri. In exchange for $100,000, Sabri offered the CIA important details on some of Saddam's alleged weapons programs and assurances on the discontinuance of others. Sabri told the CIA that Saddam had stockpiled certain chemical weapons, specifically "poison gas." Sabri also told the CIA that Saddam did not have an active nuclear or biological weapons program. There were people in the CIA that knew this intelligence, but the CIA reports which continued up to Capitol Hill and the White House ignored this information from Sabri. In the lead-up to the invasion, the CIA pressured Sabri to defect to the United States, but Sabri declined. Communication between Sabri and the CIA ceased thereafter.
It has not been clearly established whether Sabri's safe passage to Cairo in the initial days of the invasion was related to his relationship with the CIA. In any case, the US military did not include Sabri in the "deck of cards" featuring the most-wanted Iraqi suspects.
September 2006 Senate intelligence panel minority view has corrected Drumheller:
“We can say that there is not a single document related to this case which indicates that the source said Iraq had no WMD programs. On the contrary, all of the information about this case so far indicates that the information from this source was that Iraq did have WMD programs.”
NBC Nightly News quote:
On the issue of chemical weapons, the CIA said Saddam had stockpiled as much as "500 metric tons of chemical warfare agents" and had "renewed" production of deadly agents. Sabri said Iraq had stockpiled weapons and had "poison gas" left over from the first Gulf War. Both Sabri and the agency were wrong.
However, whether Sabri was entirely wrong is unclear. Several small caches of chemical munitions at leastعشرة years old were found in Iraq between 2004 and 2006.
الهامش
- ^ Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction salon.com
- ^ http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
- ^ Iraqi diplomat gave U.S. prewar WMD details - Lisa Myers & the NBC News Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com
- ^ BBC NEWS | Middle East | Suspect shells examined in Iraq
| مناصب سياسية | ||
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| سبقه محمد سعيد الصحاف |
وزير الخارجية | تبعه هوشيار زيباري |
