WASHINGTON, March 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States released nine of the many documents of the prewar Iraqi government on Thursday, hoping the public would help analyze the documents and for the anti-terrorism war.

    The documents were posted at a Pentagon website at the direction of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and could be found at the website http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm.

    Some of the documents, all in Arabic, discussed the presence of al-Qaida in Iraq, explosive materials and dealing with the United Nations weapons inspection team, according to the website.

    The website said the administration "has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translation."

    The documents were the first of thousands from a collection of 48,000 boxes of papers and tape-recorded conversations confiscated by U.S. forces after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and now housed in Qatar, to be released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence over the next several months. Enditem