{"id":2353,"date":"2003-04-20T01:58:44","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T08:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/german-collaboration\/"},"modified":"2003-04-20T01:58:44","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T08:58:44","slug":"german-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/20\/german-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"German collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Daily Telegraph has the goods on German cooperation with Saddam, <a title=\"Telegraph | News | German spies offered help to Saddam in run-up to war\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/04\/20\/wirq20.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2003\/04\/20\/ixportaltop.html\">including a memo on payoffs<\/a> for opposing the Anglo\/American coalition:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam&#8217;s secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal&#8230; the Iraqis offered to give lucrative contracts to German companies if the Berlin government helped prevent an American invasion of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those keeping score, we have new smoking guns on Russia and Germany, and the TotalFinaElf oil contact with France has already been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.command-post.org\/iraq_index.html\">Command Post<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Telegraph has the goods on German cooperation with Saddam, including a memo on payoffs for opposing the Anglo\/American coalition: Germany&#8217;s intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam&#8217;s secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal&#8230; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/20\/german-collaboration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German collaboration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-BX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}