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19 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Historic perspective that dots the "i's" and crosses the "t's" Dec 12, 2007
By Terri Fiyalko
"Terri Fiyalko"
When it was reported that the Iraq Survey Group had confiscated documents from the Saddam regime in 2003, I was anxious for news of their content. Most citizens, via the media, have been content to simply dismiss these documents as forgeries. For the layman, to examine any single document without an historic overview, proves uninformative. Because of the lack of sensationalism - meaning something akin to a signed confession of guilt - the media reports of the translations were sparse, and their place in the context of time and events vague.
But wait... it is not that simple.
What was ignored by the media was an actual diary by an IIS agent, filled with memos and notes of various meetings over years of time. Analyzed by ME experts, the identification and plans of the convened parties in the diary notes, plus actual subsequent events, reveals a gun... if not smoking... that is still downright hot from discharging.
More than just a translation, the author takes you thru history - connecting the dots between the various documents, and their participants, with actual historic events.
By connecting the dots, data and events, a real perspective on how the Global Islamic Jihadist Movement interplays with the various Middle East countries and their leadership - and just how those countries must play along to insure their own survival - becomes abundantly clear to western minds.
Without an author familiar with the players in the Global Islamic Jihadist Movement, these documents could be... and have been... passed over as inconsequential. All efforts verifying authenticity is disclosed. But perhaps the best proof of all is their prescient and ominous plans - finally realized in all too many actual events.
This book is not for those content with a media sound byte education. It is, in fact, a fabulous textbook for anyone who genuinely wants to understand how our enemy survives and functions. You will learn not only of Saddam and his regime's covert actions in his efforts to retain power, but a new perspective on the entire, and widespread, jihad movement itself.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
VERY IMPORTANT WORK. Feb 05, 2008
By Gary Jacobs
Some say Saddam Hussein & his regime were "strictly secular", and would never have worked with religious terrorists.
Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief & Middle East Regional Editor of Newsweek Magazine, himself attended a 'Popular Islamic Conference' in Iraq in 1993 - Just as the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush was about to order the launch of crusie missles on Iraq as one of his final acts as President. While the entire eye witness testimony should be read, this excerpt from Dickey's first hand account is especially telling:
"So Islamic radicals from all over the Middle East, Africa and Asia converged on Baghdad to show their solidarity with Iraq in the face of American aggression. Chechens in Persian-lamb hats, Moroccans in caftans, delegates who hailed "from Jakarta to Dakar," as one Senegalese put it, poured into Baghdad's Rashid Hotel, where Saddam's minions urged them to embrace jihad as "the one gate to Paradise." And the greatest holy warrior of all? "The mujahed Saddam Hussein, who is leading this nation against the nonbelievers," they were told. "Everyone has a task to do, which is to go against the American state," declared Saddam's deputy Ezzat Ibrahim [al-Douri]"... "That was in January 1993. I was there, and every time I hear diplomats and politicians, whether in Washington or the capitals of Europe, declare that Saddam Hussein is a "secular Baathist ideologue" who has nothing to do with Islamists or with terrorist calls to jihad, I think of that afternoon and I wonder what they're talking about? If that was not a fledgling Qaeda itself at the Rashid convention, it sure was Saddam's version of it." http://www.Newsweek.com/id/65578/page/1
According to detainees, as well as captured documents translated and analyzed by the US Military's "Iraqi Perspectives Project" designed to look into the eyes of Saddam's regime, "Since 1994 The Fedayeen Saddam camps 'graduated' 7200 people" . "Beginning in 1998 these camps began hosting Arab Volunteers from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, The [Persian] Gulf [States], and Syria. "These training camps were humming with frenzied activity in the months immediately prior to the war ... As late as January 2003 the volunteers participated in a special training event called 'heroes attack'". Chapter III starting page 51
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2006/ipp.pdf
About Ray Robison - A career that spans the C.I.A.'s Iraq Survey Group, The Defense Intelligence Agency, & The 101st Airborne brings journalists from Christopher Hitchens on the left to Rush Limbaugh on the right to ALL AGREE: Ray Robison is uniquely qualified to analyze the millions of items in Saddam's Archives.
A comprehensive report on this book and other back ground info can be found at www.sonicbids.com/BothInOneTrench
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Very Readable Feb 08, 2008
By Boyd H. Blackwell
Excellent review of the intelligence gathered from Iraq. Some assumptions made that may be somewhat questionable, but makes good arguments to support them. Very readable. Lays out the intelligence, offers opinions, and allows for different views.
15 of 21 found the following review helpful:
It's about time someone wrote a book on this! Dec 03, 2007
By Bonecrkr
For years now, we've been deluged by lies and propaganda from the neo-communist left, about the Iraq war. And it doesn't help that George Bush acts like the Manchurian Candidate during his second term, cravenly abandoning the war on terror, or even basic common sense, in favor of ultra-liberal policy (the REAL reason Bush's popularity is so low).
Problem is, Hussein, like the Nazis before him, had a real fetish for documenting his evil. Our country seized libraries full of documents and hasn't spent nearly enough resources translating them.
But, what HAS been translated proves that Hussein was complicit in terrorism world wide and had a major hand in 9/11. Since, he put a rope around his neck for it, Bush deserves major accolades for the war in Iraq. But, what those documents ALSO say, is that Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program and that the russians transported the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel to Syria, just days before the US rolled on in to Baghdad. Not making that info public is bad. What's worse is that Israel recently identified where those nukes were and blew up the site. And our administration tried very hard to convince them not to. Bush should be impeached for that gross dereliction of duty. And the anti-war left should jailed for treason and sedition.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Roy Robison is Wrong Oct 18, 2010
By Commodore Sloat
Robison was one of the amateur researchers behind getting the "Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents" posted online - supposedly so an army of right wing bloggers would pore through them and find evidence that Saddam really was working with al Qaeda, or building nukes, or something. Thanks to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the documents were finally posted online, and Robison and many others pored over them with magnifying glasses looking for that elusive evidence of ... something. While they were looking, the International Atomic Energy Association said to the US, I don't want to alarm you, but you just posted plans for nuclear weapons in a place where Iran can find them... Well, the documents were quickly taken down, and Hoekstra ran away with his tail tucked between his legs in embarrassment, but I guess Robison has no such shame and is at it again. This collection of innuendo and supposition based on flimsy evidence and one-sided interpretations of various ambiguous documents (along with a head-in-the-sand approach to the fact that every intelligence agency ON EARTH has looked into these claims and found them wanting) is nothing new to people who have been following Steven Hayes and crew's antics since 2002, but I guess it could be useful if you want all the tidbits of conspiracy theory in one place. Pretty much every claim in this book has been vetted by intelligence experts and found false or exaggerated (and in fact the US military did several studies on these particular documents and reached opposite conclusions to Robison), but I guess some neocons will never give up. It's better than admitting they supported a ridiculous and counterproductive war.
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