From Russia With Terror

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | March 1, 2004 | Jamie Glazov

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Contemporary political memory seems to be conveniently afflicted with some kind of Alzheimer's disease. Not long ago, every Western leader, starting with President Clinton, fumed against Saddam’s WMD. Now almost no one remembers that after General Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law, defected to Jordan in 1995, he helped us find “more than

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WoW.
What a revealing interview.

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Thanks and welcome to FR.

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PLO/Soviet Pong

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In the end our trained terrorists (what morphed into al-Qaeda) were deadlier then the Soviet trained ones, eh?

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=== Its goal was to get the United States to establish diplomatic relations with him, by having him pretend to transform the terrorist PLO into a government-in-exile that was willing to renounce terrorism.


A microcosm of the deception strategy by which we now pretend the former Soviet Union is our strategic partner in countering the global network of terror the Soviet Union set up.


=== “The only thing people in the West care about is our leaders,” the KGB chairman said, when he enrolled me in the effort of making Arafat popular in Washington. “The more they come to love them, the better they will like us.”


Don't know which was more sickening for me ... watching Gorbachev make the Iron Lady giggle or having Bush look deep into Pootie-Poot's soul.


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