Funny how these significant packages of documents keep being found by the intrepid journalists of the Telegraph, the Toronto Star, San Francisco Examiner-- I mean, what are we paying the intelligence services for?

The following is mostly culled from www.whatreallyhappened.com
whose compiler is responsible for spotting the pattern:

You may have heard over the weekend about the "proof" discovered in the ruins of Iraq's intelligence agency that Saddam Hussein had a link to Al-Qaeda

Well, here's a funny problem, or coincidence if you prefer to interpret it that way---

4/27/03 First paragraph of the London Telegraph version of the story "Iraqi intelligence documents discovered in Baghdad by The Telegraph..."

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq27.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/27/ixnewstop.html

4/27/03 First paragraph of the Toronto Star version of the story "Top-secret Iraqi intelligence documents, unearthed by the Toronto Star in the bombed-out ..."

 http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1051359175040&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

4/27/03 Sunday Telegraph: "No, OUR guy found the documents!!!"

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2979405.stm


4/27/03 San Francisco Chronicle: "No, WE found them!!!!!!!

"The handwritten notes were found in a red notebook by a Chronicle reporter among hundreds of documents scattered around a ransacked first-floor office in the headquarters of the Mukhabarat's surveillance department ...." (yeah right)

 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/27/MN99456.DTL

4/27/03 ABC: "No, WE found them, the rest of you bugger off!"

 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/iraq_documents030416.html

So, who found the documents? Or were there so many copies left around that every newspaper found a set?

4/27/03 And the Sunday Times reported that its own journalists had found documents in the Iraqi foreign ministry that indicate that France gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with American officials. "

 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20030427/ap_on_re_mi_ea/britain_iraq_al_qaida

Strange thing how the CIA just isn't enough on its game to dig for documents itself, and somehow mysteriously the press finds its way to packages of stuff that have useful propaganda value!