Posted on 04/15/2004 2:29:26 AM PDT by Sowell Fan
Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden: A Match Made Up in Propaganda?
Compiled By: Ryan Mauro
tdcanalyst@optonline.net
This is to serve as a semi-chronological guide to Iraq’s sponsorship of terrorism throughout the years beginning with 1990. I personally have not taken a firm position as to if Saddam personally supported any anti-American terrorist attack, but the information is presented here for you to make up your mind. Some may say that Wahhabists like Bin Laden, Shiites like the Iranians, and Sunnis like the Iraqis won’t work together do to theological differences. This argument has obviously been disproved, as today we see Saddam’s loyalists, Wahhabists and all sorts of terrorists today cooperating in the war against Coalition forces.
Compare the theory to Christianity. This is like saying Catholics and Protestants don’t work together. They may not attend the same churches, but as we see today in the disputes in Alabama over the display of the Ten Commandments, they unite against a common threat. Please read this article with an open mind, and perhaps it will become as obvious to you as it is to myself, that Saddam’s regime was a state sponsor of terrorism.
1990
Early 1990 saw the first major acceleration in Saddam’s interest in terrorist groups. Iraqi intelligence helped set up a command headquarters, recruitment program and training program in Amman, Jordan for various Palestinian terrorist organizations. From here, assistance to Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian intelligence apparatus and security forces including Force 17; the 15th of May Organization; the Organization of the Survivors of Hammah (sect of Syrian Muslim Brotherhood); Hamas; Palestine Liberation Front; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and other groups was provided. [1]
Iraq also began creating front groups including the Front for the Islamic Army for the Liberation of Palestine, and took responsibility for turning Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization forces into the Palestinian Liberation Army. Iraq directed the transformation. The Iraqi front group, FIALP, then formed an alliance with the PLA, Hamas, and the Islamic Unification Movement and was used to provide covert Iraqi support. [2] Under the joint Arafat-Hussein efforts, PLO units began moving from Algeria, Jordan, Sudan and Yemen to Iraq to be trained and transformed into PLA units in late March. [3]
1991
The Gulf War saw Iraq’s first try at terrorist attacks. They completely failed, but Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorists, particularly Palestinian ones, was shown. Among the attacks attempted, was a bomb attack against the Thomas Jefferson Library in Manila, Philippines by two intelligence operatives. Attacks on Western interests by the Iraqis were foiled in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand.
In the summer of 1991, the Arafat-Hussein transformation of the PLO was still in the process. Half-way through June, Arafat ordered the movement of 10,000 PLO militants to Iraq to assist in the creation of a special, elite terrorist force under Iraqi command. [4]
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Because DemocRats are domestic terrorists. They don't use bombs, but they do their very best to keep the population alarmed and divided.
HF
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