Press release: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Releases Captured Documents – March 16, 2006
“At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office has created this portal to provide the general public with access to unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The US Government has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available.” [Note: many of the documents (PDF) are in Arabic with some side by side English translations. A brief synopsis is provided for a number of the documents.]
The documents are organized in the following categories: Operation Iraqi Freedom; Audio File Transcripts; and Al-Qa’ida (“…a collection of newly-released al-Qaida documents captured during recent operations in support of the Global War on Terror and maintained in the Department of Defense’s Harmony database. In the text of these documents, readers will see how explicit al-Qa’ida has been in its internal discussions covering a range of organizational issues, particularly regarding the internal structure and functioning of the movement as well as with tensions that emerged within the leadership.”)
Notice that appears on the document portal: “The Government may monitor and audit the usage of this system, and all persons are hereby notified that use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing.”
Additional documents (in both English and Arabic) are available from the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point: Documents from the Harmony Database
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