Posted on 10/17/2004 10:46:39 AM PDT by Jane_N
The original Assasins were named after the hashish they smoked.
Ohhh, they were high on drugs! I guess that makes it okay...
And what were they called? I've read bits and snips over the years...that's all there ever seems to be, bits.
Islamics using assassination as a tool of politics to get rid of a leader. You had the hashishan assassins of the Persian mountains whose fortress was impregnable. IOW they could reach out and assassinate but no one could reach them. Not until the Mongol Hulagu Khan decimated them and kicked to death their leader, "the old man of the mountain"
Saddam first big action when he was in his early 20s was to try and assassinate the Prime Minister.
7 October 1959 Saddam was a member of a Baath assassination team which attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Iraq, Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem. Shot in the leg by the prime minister's bodyguard, Saddam fled to Syria, then Egypt.
http://www.worldhistory.com/hussein.htm
Car bombings in Iraq are mass assassinations.
What a combination, the Qur'ran and Hard Drugs. Makes for a strange breed of 'Holymen' doesn't it. Mind control of the 21st century.
The more Islam gets uncovered, the more corrupt it seems.
=== Islam has a long tradition of assassination.
And ours has only begun ... as quietly announced from Crawford one Sunday in August, 2002.
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