Torstaina 20.3.2003 YLE1:n pääuutislähetyssä klo 20.30 Ulkomaantoimituksen
esimies ja Washingtonin kirjeenvaihtaja Petri Sarvamaa antoi raporttia
suorassa lähetyksessä. Kyseisen lähetyksen äänen ja kuvan laatu oli huono,
ja lopulta lähetys katkesikin niin, että itse uutisen aihe jäi epäselväksi.
Aiheeseen ei enää koskaan palattu, vaikka toimittaja Arvi Lind toisin
vakuuttikin.

Tässä kyseinen lähetys puhtaaksi kirjoitettuna:

"Arvi Lind:
Siellä on tullut ilmi uutta tietoa irakilaisten diplomaattien karkotuksista
muun muassa Suomesta
- Mitä voit tästä asiasta kertoa?

Petri Sarvamaa:
Joo, päivän Washington Post todellakin -öö- paljastaa että, että se mikä
aiemmin luultiin olevan vain tavallinen diplomaattinen pyyntö eri maille
-öö- katsoa että mitä irakilaiset diplomaatit tekevät näissä maissa, on
paljastunut puolustusministeriön Pentagonin salaiseksi operaatioksi, jonka
nimi on Uhkaava taivaanranta.

Se, mikä tässä on nyt tärkeää, on se, että Washington Post:in tietojen
mukaan esimerkiksi Ruotsi on -öö- Ruotsihan on voimakkaasti arvostellut'
Yhdysvaltoja mutta että Ruotsi olisi on myös tiedusteluelimiensä kautta
auttanut Yhdysvaltoja kiristämään irakilaisdiplomaateilta tietoja
mahdollisista kemiallisista ja biologisista aseohjelmista, ja tässä on
epäilyksenä se, että viime kuukausien aikana monissa maissa [clip]
määrä on lisääntynyt voimakkaasti ja nopeasti.

Myös Suomessa ulkoministeriö sanoi, että näitä irakilaisia diplomaatteja,
joita siis kolme päivää sitten kerrottiin että Suomessa karkotetaan kolme
kappaletta, että heitä olisi seurattu jo usean kuukauden ajan ja haluttiin
antaa ikäänkuin sellainen kuva, että tällä ei olisi oikeastaan mitään
tekemistä tämän Yhdysvaltain esittämän toiveen ja pyynnön kanssa.
Mutta kun itse selvitin tuota asiaa Yhdysvaltain ulkoministeriöstä kävi
il[clip] [clip]tä takana on todella [Pidempi clip, nyt ruudun alaidassa
vilahtaa sekunnin palkki:

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[Kuva siirtyy studioon]

tä ei haluttu kommentoida sen enempää lainkaan [clip] Jos tämä pitää
paikkansa että Ruots[clip] tähän diplomaattien kiristyk[clip] heille on
sanottu että joko kerrotte tai [clip] niin minun arvioni on se [tässä
kohtaa Sarvamaan puhetta ryhdytään feidaamaan pois] että on hyvin
vaikeaa uskoa [Feidauksen aikana ei esiintynyt pätkimistä]

Arvi Lind:
No niin valitettavasti tuo satelliittilinja tuolta Yhdysvalloista nyt nyt
katkesi ja me emme voi sitä jatkaa enää mutta meillä on täällä
studiossa asiantuntijana ilmavoimien operaatiopäällikkö ... "

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Käsiini saaman dokumentin mukaan tuo televisioitu uutisointi kuului näin:

"Päivän Washington Post todellakin paljastaa, että se mikä aiemmin luultiin
olevan vain normaali diplomaattinen pyyntö eri maille katsoa, että mitä
irakilaiset diplomaatit tekevät näissä maissa, on paljastunut
puolustusministeriön Pentagonin salaiseksi operaatioksi, jonka nimi on
Uhkaava taivaanranta.

Se, mikä tässä on nyt tärkeää, on se, että Washington Post:in tietojen
mukaan esimerkiksi Ruotsi on, Ruotsihan on voimakkaasti arvostellut
Yhdysvaltoja, mutta että Ruotsi olisi, on myös tiedusteluelimiensä kautta
auttanut Yhdysvaltoja kiristämään irakilaisdiplomaateilta tietoja
mahdollisista kemiallisista ja biologisista aseohjelmista. Ja tässä on
epäilyksenä se, että viime kuukausien aikana monissa maissa [valitettavasti
tästä puuttuu sana] määrä on lisääntynyt voimakkaasti ja nopeasti. Myös
Suomessa ulkoministeriö sanoi, että näitä irakilaisia diplomaatteja, joita
siis kolme päivää sitten kerrottiin, että Suomessa karkotetaan kolme
kappaletta, että heitä olisi seurattu jo usean kuukauden ajan ja haluttiin
antaa ikäänkuin sellainen kuva, että tällä ei olisi oikeastaan mitään
tekemistä tämän Yhdysvaltain esittämän toiveen ja pyynnön kanssa.

Mutta kun itse selvitin tuota asiaa Yhdysvaltain ulkoministeriöstä, kävi
ilmi, ja sain epäsuoran vahvistuksen sille, että takana on todella
puolustusministeriön salainen operaatio, jonka tarkoitus oli saada tietoa
mahdollisilta ase-eksperteiltä Irakin kemiallisista ja biologisista
aseohjelmista. Sitä, oliko myös Suomelta pyydetty nimenomaan tällaista
apua, sitä ei haluttu kommentoida sen enempää lainkaan. Jos tämä pitää
paikkansa, että Ruotsi on osallistunut tähän diplomaattien kiristykseen, ja
heille on sanottu, että kerrotte tai teidät karkotetaan - niin minun arvioni
on se, että on hyvin vaikeaa uskoa, että Ruotsilta olisi pyydetty jotain
sellaista, mitä Suomelta ei olisi pyydetty.

TV-uutiset on tänään saanut tietoonsa myös sen, että Yhdysvallat aikoo vielä
tämän päivän kuluessa pyytää kaikkia maailman maita, joissa on Irakin
lähetystö, sulkemaan tuon lähetystön. Käytännössä se tarkoittaa sitä, että
Suomenkin ulkopoliittinen johto joutuu jo huomenna miettimään ja
vastaamaan siihen, tunnustaako Suomi Saddam Husseinin hallinnon."
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Näiden tietojen seurauksena etsin käsiini asiaa käsittelevän Washington
Post-artikkelin, joka kuuluu näin:

"U.S. Reaps New Data On Weapons

By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2003; Page A01

The U.S. government has obtained potentially valuable new information on
Iraq's biological and chemical weapons programs in recent days from
scientists and intelligence agents confronted outside Iraq with threats that
failure to cooperate could mean unpleasant consequences when Baghdad
falls, according to two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

In a top-secret adjunct to an openly reported diplomatic initiative, U.S.
and allied intelligence services summoned scores of Iraqi operatives in
foreign capitals to present a stark choice. They were told "they could
either 'turn,' " said one official, using an expression for switching sides,
or be expelled back to Iraq "to enjoy your very short stay in Baghdad."

Another official with access to written accounts of the conversations said
the Iraqis were told that when the United States sorts friends and enemies
after toppling President Saddam Hussein, "they'll be putting themselves
and their families at the mercy of the new Iraqi government."

The State Department announced on March 6 that it had asked 60 friendly
governments to expel alleged Iraqi intelligence operatives who lived abroad
under diplomatic or commercial cover. Spokesman Philip Reeker portrayed
the request as routine. But behind the announcement was Operation Imminent
Horizon, in which Iraqis were pressured to provide information about the
weapons programs and Iraqi operational plans. Among the nations that helped
with the expulsions and recruiting efforts were Romania, Hungary, Australia
and Sweden, officials said.

The Defense Department is racing to integrate the new leads into an
extremely risky and ambitious disarmament mission. The quality of
intelligence on Iraqi chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could not only
determine the threats facing U.S. troops on the battlefield in the days
ahead, but also could become a factor in conclusions around the world
about whether the war was necessary.

U.S. planners are urgently focused on the speedy capture of Iraqi scientists
and identification of suspected weapons sites, to prevent attacks on U.S.
forces and preserve evidence of proscribed programs. But they are also
wary of booby traps and the possibility that small U.S. disarmament teams
could be overwhelmed if they outrun friendly ground forces.

Officials said many U.S. analysts feared that the chaos of the Iraqi
government's collapse could give an opening to Iraqi scientists or security
officials inclined to seize and sell special weapons for profit or
revenge. That would bring about the very proliferation that the war is
intended to prevent.

One issue facing U.S. officials is the need for early and concrete proof
of an ongoing Iraqi special weapons program even with the likelihood,
as some officials see it, that the program would not be fully understood
for months or years.

"A very important political component is if you find these things, how do
you establish the proof of that to the satisfaction of 35 foreign ministries
and those of you in the media?" said Jay Davis, who led the Defense
Threat Reduction Agency until 2001 and has continued to consult on the
Iraqi disarmament plan."A large number of conspiracy theorists all over
the world will say the U.S. government has planted all that stuff."

In a twist that could complicate the effort, the White House has decided,
for now, to assign no role in the disarmament effort to the key U.N.
agencies that were charged by the Security Council with carrying out the
search for banned weapons. As recently as the last week of February,
U.S. and U.N. officials said, the State Department asked the leading
inspection agency, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection
Commission, known as UNMOVIC, and the International Atomic
Energy Agency for help in the postwar dismantling of Iraq's remaining
long-range missiles and nuclear, biological, chemical and missile weapons
programs.

But early this month, the White House reversed course, saying it was a
military operation and would remain one for a long time to come, not
suitable for civilians. Officials said the U.N. agencies could be given a
role later. Two officials said the U.N. agencies would not likely be
invited to participate until the United States was ready to turn over
dual-use biological or chemical sites for long-term monitoring. U.N.
sources said the IAEA believes it has ongoing legal authority over former
Iraqi nuclear facilities, regardless of a change in government.

As a substitute for the U.N. expertise, the Bush administration has
scrambled to recruit former inspectors from the U.N. Special
Commission, or UNSCOM, the agency that carried out inspections in
Iraq in the 1990s. These inspectors may join military-civilian
"exploitation teams" that will interrogate Iraqi weapons scientists and
assess captured documents, but the first of them arejust arriving in the
region, and their roles remain undefined.

Charles Duelfer, who served as deputy executive chairman at UNSCOM for
most of its eight-year life, departed for Kuwait on Monday. Duelfer was
highly regarded among disarmament experts, but UNSCOM's back channels
to Washington and London aroused suspicion among other nations on the
U.N. Security Council. UNSCOM dissolved in controversy in 1999 over
disclosures that the United States had used the commission's resources to
eavesdrop on the Iraqi military. Duelfer left no forwarding telephone number
and did not reply to e-mail sent Tuesday to the address he supplied on his
office voice mail.

Since there will be no independent U.N. witnesses in the search, U.S.
officials said they give high priority to making a public display of the
discovery of any weapons. "If we've got a good news story, in the
sense that we find something, we will take reporters to see it," one
defense official said. Another spoke of a mandate to find "a smoking
gun real fast." He added: "And if the son of a bitch uses a couple of
chemical artillery shells, he will have done the same thing."

Participants in the U.S. disarmament planning, most of them speaking this
week without official permission and on condition of anonymity, expressed
disquiet about the prospects of success. The venture, said one official who
echoed other colleagues, remains improvised and unfinished, "with about
74,000 moving pieces." Few of those interviewed believed they could predict
the performance of newly invented task forces that fuse civilian experts
with intelligence, Energy Department and Justice Department employees --
all under military operational command. Some sources said the uncertainties
reflect the relative inattention of top policymakers, who turned to
disarmament only weeks ago after more than a year of concerted planning
to remove the Iraqi government by force.

A senior defense official with responsibility for oversight of the mission,
speaking for the Pentagon but insisting on anonymity, expressed pride in the
on-the-fly assembly of experts but acknowledged they begin their work as
there is great uncertainty.

"It's going to be very fluid," the official said. "Things might not be
where we think they are. We may stumble onto things we didn't know
about."

Officials said the United States has more information on Hussein's weapons
programs than it has shared publicly or with U.N. inspectors. They said they
withheld information only to preserve essential sources, methods or the
secrecy of ongoing operations. But success or failure of the U.S.
disarmament plan depends heavily on extracting more details from a group
of 75 to 100 Iraqis with primary knowledge of Iraq's weapons design,
procurement, manufacture and concealment.

Special Forces teams are poised to conduct raids from the earliest hours
of the war to seize targets of opportunity among those men and women.
U.S. intelligence is tracking their whereabouts, and in some cases "we
have a pretty good idea where they are," one official said.

A handful of eleventh-hour recruits have come from among Iraqi scientists
abroad who have also been approached lately by U.S. agents. The Baghdad
government sent some of them overseas and elsewhere late last year to
prevent their questioning by U.N. inspectors. Still other knowledgeable
Iraqis have been detained at border points this month as they sought to flee
the country before shooting started.

American experts are counting on many Iraqis to cooperate eagerly, but
others, one official directly involved in the planning said, will be
faced with "an interrogation that doesn't look anything like an interview
with U.N. inspectors." The Iraqis can tell what they know, the official
said, or face "handling as enemy combatants. They'll go to a war
crimes tribunal with Saddam, or they will be in prison. You have a lot
of leverage over them."

It was not clear, government officials said, whether all the central
players in Iraq's weapons program would be offered amnesty for
information. Asked whether any were regarded as war criminals or
otherwise irredeemable enemies, five officials said the government
had made no such decision.

Military planners see four stages in the disarmament campaign. The first
is to take control of and assess any known site that might present an
immediate threat to U.S. forces. The second is to disable the threat and
any ongoing production. The third will be the responsibility of
"exploitation teams," with linguists, tools to extract information from
hidden or encrypted computer files, and field laboratories that include
detectors for radiation and sophisticated tests for biological and
chemical toxins. Full destruction, the fourth stage, will come much later.

"We are not going to be blowing up munitions and destroying things if
they do not pose an immediate threat," a Pentagon civilian planner
said. "We will secure it and then come back, when we're in a permissive
environment, to destroy the material in a way that's safe to civilians and
soldiers."

The weapons hunt draws on nuclear experts from the Lawrence Livermore,
Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, civilian scientists from the
Energy Department's Nuclear Emergency Response Team, linguists from the
CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, and computer and records specialists
from the Justice Department. The military is supplying specialists in
missiles and biological and chemical weapons, drawn from Defense
Threat Reduction Agency, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Agency,
the Army's Technical Escort Unit and the Marine Corps' Chemical
Biological Incident Response Force.

© 2003 The Washington Post Company "

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Tästä käy ilmi, että Usa on 6.3.2003 pyytänyt 60 ystävällismielistä valtiota
karkoittamaan irakilaisdiplomaatteja. Nimettyjä maita olivat mm. Romania,
Unkari, Australia ja Ruotsi.

Usa kiristi kyseisiä diplomaattistatuksen omaavia irakilaisia uhkaamalla
heitä karkoituksella. Heidän tuli joko vaihtaa puolta kertomalla tietonsa
Usalle, tai tulla karkoitetuksi Irakiin nauttiakseen lyhyestä Bagdadin
vierailusta.

Tällainen diplomaattistatuksen omaavien perheellisten henkilöiden
kiristäminen on arveluttavaa ja jos Suomi, kuten siis näyttää, on
osallistunut tähän kiristysoperaatioon, niin kyseessä on suuren luokan
poliittinen skandaali.

Asian merkittävyyteen vielä vaikuttaa sen ympärillä raivonnut kohu,
jolla on jo ollut suuria vaikutuksia Suomen poliittiseen kenttään.

Yle1:n suorittama uutisoimatta jättäminen asian suhteen on yksinkertaisesti
häpeällistä ja ehdottoman tuomittavaa. Suomen kansalaisilla on oltava oikeus
tietää, mitä Suomen hallitus tekee, jos muiden maiden mediat käsittelevät
ko. asiaa julkisesti.

Usalainen ABC News uutisoi 5.3.2003 näin:

"U.S. Targets Hundreds of Iraqi Secret Agents
by John McWethy

March 5 - The United States is launching a campaign, code-named Imminent
Horizon, to disrupt and rattle Iraqi intelligence agents around the world,
ntelligence sources told ABCNEWS. These are people the United States
suspects are trying to engineer terrorist attacks against American interests
overseas.

The United States is secretly asking for help from more than 60 countries -
nations ranging from Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt to Italy and Japan.
Intelligence sources say the United States has a list of about 300 suspected
Iraqi agents.

The domestic part of this operation has already swung into action in New
York. Sources say the United States is expelling two Iraqi diplomats from
the Iraqi mission to the United Nations. The diplomats - both attachés
- are named Nazih Abul Latif Rachman and Yehia Naeem Suaoud.
They have until Friday, March 7, to depart the United States.

'Shaking the Tree'

Overseas, sources say most of the suspected Iraqi agents are also hidden in
their embassies, using diplomatic jobs as cover. The United States will ask
host nations to expel them, just as it is doing in New York.

A much smaller number of suspected agents are said to be posing as
businessmen or students. The United States will ask that they be arrested.

If there is no cooperation, sources say the United States will mount its own
harassment campaign - letting suspected Iraqi agents know they are now
being watched.

In law enforcement terms, it's called "shaking the tree," - creating doubts,
trying to rattle potential terrorists.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he believes there is a definite threat
- of increasing magnitude - from Iraqi agents overseas.

"It is more likely that something will take place in another nation
involving Americans or American institutions than in this country," said
Rockefeller, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "I will say
this, that our agencies are on top of it."

Agents Found Before

Two days after the start of the last war against Iraq in 1991, Iraqi agents
tried to blow up a U.S. government cultural center in the Philippines. The
bomb detonated prematurely, killing one Iraqi and severely injuring
another.

In the aftermath, the United States discovered more than two dozen Iraqi
agents throughout the region.

And more recently, on Feb. 14, also in the Philippines, an Iraqi diplomat
named Husham Husain was expelled for his alleged ties to the Philippine
terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.

Sources say the CIA, FBI and military intelligence agencies have worked on
this operation for more than a year - a period during which they say
evidence has continued to mount that Baghdad intends to strike. "

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Operaatio Uhkaava Taivaanranta on siis mainittu jo kahdessa eri uutisessa
kahden eri uutismedian uutisoimana, joten operaation olemassaolo on selviö.
Usa on uutisoinnin mukaan pyytänyt salaisesti apua ainakin seuraavilta
mailta: Bahrain, Yemen, Egypti, Italia, Japani, Romania, Unkari,
Australia ja Ruotsi. Kysymys kuuluu, että mikä on Suomen rooli asiassa?

Helsingin Sanomat uutisoi asiasta näin:

HS Foreign - Monday 10.3.2003

USA concerned about Iraqi diplomats in Finland

Sources at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs say that officials of the
United States have expressed their concern to Finland about the presence of
Iraqi diplomats in Finland.

The Finnish Foreign Ministry has emphasised that it observes the dictates of
the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Yrjö Länsipuro, Director-
General of the Department of Press and Culture of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, said that there had been no direct request to expel any Iraqi
diplomats.

Länsipuro said that the Finnish Foreign Ministry assured the US that it
would take care of the security of its embassies, and that the concerns
would be forwarded to officials responsible for security.

According to foreign news agencies, the United States has submitted requests
for the expulsion of Iraqi diplomats to at least Germany and Sweden.

HS Foreign - Friday 14.3.2003

Sweden expels Iraqi diplomats; Finland to investigate activities of Iraqis
in Finland

Sweden has ordered two Iraqi diplomats to leave the country. The
announcement from the Swedish Foreign Ministry came on Thursday after the
information had been leaked to the media.

Last week the United States expressed concern about the possible activities
of Iraqi diplomatic personnel around the world, and asked 60 countries to
investigate. Since then, Romania, the Philippines, and Australia have all
expelled Iraqi diplomats. The United States ordered two of the members of
the Iraqi delegation to the United Nations to leave.

Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson says that Sweden's decision has
nothing to do with the US request.

Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen told foreign journalists on Thursday
that Finnish officials are looking into the activities of Iraqi diplomatic
personnel in this country.

Finland was one of the countries that received the US request to investigate
Iraqi personnel. "We take this very seriously because of the increasing
tension", Lipponen said.

He added that the Finnish Security Police would assess whether or not the
activities of the diplomats have been compatible with their roles as
diplomats. Lipponen emphasised that Finland cannot accept activities that
are in conflict with the rules of diplomacy.

Lipponen also pointed out that Finland has no obligation to report to the
United States or anyone else on the results of the investigation. The issue
could come up today during the visit to Finland by the Swedish Prime
Minister.

HS - Foreign Monday 17.3.2003

BREAKING NEWS: Finland to expel three Iraqi diplomats

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the Finnish government
has requested three Iraqi diplomats - described as "members of the
diplomatic personnel of the Iraqi Embassy" - should leave Finland.

According to the ministry statement, "Over several months, the Finnish
authorities have come to the conclusion that their activities are not
compatible with their diplomatic status".

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja (SDP) was unwilling to comment on the
matter and the Finnish government does not intend to discuss details
relating to the expulsion. The three individuals will leave the country in
the next few days.

The Finnish moves follow hard on the heels of a decision by Sweden to expel
two Iraqi diplomats, and not long after the United States expressed its
concerns about the possible activities of Iraqi diplomatic personnel around
the world and asked 60 countries to investigate.

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Yhdysvaltain media on todennut, että diplomaattien kiristysoperaatio on
Pentagonin salainen operaatio nimeltään 'Uhkaava Taivaanranta'. Siihen
sisältyi karkoituspyyntö n. 60 ystävällismieliselle maalle, joista Helsingin
Sanomien mukaan kaikki ovat karkoittaneet diplomaatteja mukaanlukien
Ruotsi ja Suomi.

Näiden uutisten valossa on täysin selvää, että Lipposen hallituksen johtama
Suomi on osallistunut Usan kiristysoperaatioon, ja on käsittämätöntä,
että Suomen virallinen ja seuratuin uutistoimisto sensuroi ja pimittää
hallituksen toimiin liittyviä uutisia näin häikäilemättömästi.

Operaatio Uhkaavasta Taivaanrannasta on mm. uutisoinut Hindustan Times,
JSOnline eli Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ja NTI - Global Security Newswire.

hyvän journalistisen tavan perustana on kansalaisten oikeus saada
oikeita ja olennaisia tietoja, joiden avulla he voivat muodostaa totuudenmu-
kaisen kuvan maailmasta ja yhteiskunnasta

09.02.2004 Petri Rissanen

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