30 June 2010

Bo Elkjær <bo.elkjaer[at]eb.dk>
To: "'cryptome[at]earthlink.net'" <cryptome[at]earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:28:00 +0200
Subject: Book about Danish rationale for Iraq war

Attached is a book I wrote and published in 2008 concerning the Danish governments (and the UK and US governments) rationale for starting the Iraq war in 2003.

Briefly: I wrote a series of articles in 2003 documenting that the Danish government lied about its knowledge of Iraqs non-existing WMD. Since 2003 I regularly asked for an interview with the Danish Prime Minister, now NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the minister of foreign affairs Per Stig Moeller.

In 2005 after receiving some FOIA-documents from the Prime Ministers office it was clear to me that I had been blacklisted.

I decided to be as annoyingly and loudly blacklisted as possible so I started to ask for an interview in writing - posing new questions - and publishing my letters on my newspapers website - each and every day.

It took 671 days in a row before Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen caved in and agreed to do the interview.

The book contains a full transcript of the 45 minutes interview, which took place in the Prime Ministers residence in august 2007.

After writing the book I mailed the finished manuscript to both ministers in january 2008, asking for comments. They never replied. The book went in print in may 2008.

Since then, the Danish Parliament asked for copies of the communication concerning the book - and subsequently the manuscript was published on the Parliaments website.

http://folketinget.dk/samling/20072/almdel/fou/spm/177/587390.pdf

Now the Parliament quietly has removed the manuscript from the site.

Feel free to post it on your site if you want.

The title of the manuscript is "Kære statsminister - løgnen om krigen - krigen om løgnen" - in print it was: "Kære statsminister - løgnen om krigen i Irak". Which translates to "Dear Prime Minister - the lie of the war - the war of the lie" and "Dear Prime Minister - the lie of the war in Iraq".

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Bo Elkjær -- Journalist -- Ekstra Bladet
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http://cryptome.org/0001/iraq-war-lie.pdf (Danish, 267 pages, 1.1MB)