Newly Released, Declassified 1998 Report Identifies Targets, Contacts, Methods, Financing, & Training Sites

Northern Caucasus and Chechnya Favored for Operating Bases – Regarded as “Unreachable By Strikes from the West”

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Intelligence Information Report (IIR) declassified and released to Judicial Watch on October 30, 2004, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) open records request filed by Judicial Watch in January 2000, concerning the decision of the Clinton administration to bomb the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, and suspected al Qaeda terrorist training camps in the vicinity of Khost, Afghanistan on August 20, 1998.

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These are documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under a March 5, 2002 court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force. The documents contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents are dated March 2001.