4/25/2003

“In late April [2003], Ambassador David Dunford, escorted by U.S. troops, led a small team of American officials to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad. …The ministry building had been partially burned, and many of its offices had been ransacked. But some documents survived. Among them was a memo from the director of Iraqi intelligence, the Mukhabarat, dated February 2003. The document contained instructions to Iraqi intelligence officials and agents on how to create unrest in postwar Iraq–a blueprint for the insurgency. A second, similar document was ‘a list of jihadists, for want of a better word, coming into Iraq from Saudi Arabia before the war,’ said Dunford. ‘That suggested to me that Saddam was planning the insurgency before the war.’ “ [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 395