By Andrew L. Jaffee

NewsMax.Com has found indications that the AP is selectively covering the “500 hours of tapes ordered released by President Bush last week” which reveal “Saddam’s deception” over his weapons of mass destruction. From the story entitled, “AP in Saddam Tape WMD Flip-flop?:”

However, Saddam didn’t sound nearly so exasperated in another meeting taped the year before, as his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, explained how he’d hidden Iraq’s WMD stockpiles from inspectors.

In quotes reported by the AP on Feb. 16, Kamel told the Iraqi dictator:

“We did not reveal all that we have. We did not reveal the volume of chemical weapons we had produced.”

Kamel boasted that he had managed to conceal “the type of weapons, [and] the volume of the materials we imported.”

In other comments not covered by the AP, Saddam’s son-in-law went on to note: “None of [the information we gave the U.N.] was correct. They don’t know any of this.”

As translators continue to pore over more of the 500 hours of tapes ordered released by President Bush last week, the outlines of Saddam’s deception become even more clear.

In one recently released snippet, the Iraqi president orders his advisors to prepare for what sounds like an upcoming weapons inspection:

“We want to make them fail at the last minute, squeeze them to the end. We have to create situations where the Special Commission will go search for one time, the Special Commission, not the team that is coming. Now at the same time I want two inspections to be simultaneously conducted; one for the things that we are going to ignore in the special locations the Special Commission will search only once.”

Comments like that don’t exactly jibe with the AP’s latest claim that an innocent Saddam was doing everything he could to prove he’d given up his WMDs.