Baathist papers confirm Hussein's terrorist ties (FR's jveritas credited)

Scripps Howard News Service ^ | 06-APR-06 | By DEROY MURDOCK

[Jim Robinson]

STANFORD, Calif. -- With conservative congressional majorities at risk in next November's elections, President Bush repeatedly should remind everyone that a key reason coalition troops invaded Iraq was to padlock Saddam Hussein's Wal-Mart for terrorists. The administration finally is releasing intelligence documents captured in Baghdad. Bush should use them to detail how Hussein indeed was entwined with terrorists in general and al Qaeda in particular.

These papers appear on the Army Foreign Military Studies Office's Web site. (fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm). The administration should promote a simple URL (e.g. iraqdocuments.gov) so readers easily can examine Hussein's terror ties.

According to a March 23 ABC News analysis of several records, "an official representative of Saddam Hussein's government met with Osama bin Laden in Sudan on February 19, 1995, after receiving approval from Saddam Hussein." Bin Laden requested that Baghdad broadcast into Saudi Arabia sermons by radical Saudi mullah Suleiman al Ouda. He also proposed, as one file says, "carrying out joint operations against foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia.

The memo states that Hussein was briefed on the March 4, 1995, meeting and notes that after bin Laden decamped Sudan for Afghanistan, "The relationship with him is still through the Sudanese. We're currently working on activating this relationship through a new channel in light of his current location."

Hussein approved bin Laden's requested broadcasts. As for "joint operations against foreign forces," ABC adds that "eight months after the meeting _ on November 13, 1995 _ terrorists attacked Saudi National Guard Headquarters in Riyadh, killing five U.S. military advisers. The militants later confessed on Saudi TV to having been trained by Osama bin Laden."

In the April 3 Weekly Standard, Stephen Hayes cites a U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" on an Iraqi at Guantanamo. "From 1987 to 1989, the detainee served as an infantryman in the Iraqi Army," the document states. "The detainee was a member of al Qaeda," it adds. "In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."

In a March 27 cover story, Hayes dissects an eight-page fax from Iraq's then-ambassador to Manila, Salah Samarmad, to Baghdad's Foreign Ministry. The June 6, 2001, communique reveals Baathist financing of Abu Sayyaf, al Qaeda's Philippine branch. That May 27, these terrorists abducted 20 tourists, including three Americans, on the resort island of Palawan. They soon beheaded Californian Guillermo Sobrero.

"The kidnappers were formerly (from the previous year) receiving money and purchasing combat weapons," Samarmad wrote headquarters. "From now on we (IIS) are not giving them this opportunity and are not on speaking terms with them," he added, mentioning the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

As former Clinton foreign policy advisor Laurie Mylroie wrote April 2 on OpinionJournal.com, an order from Saddam Hussein dated Jan. 18, 1993, reads: "Hunt Americans on Arab territory, particularly in Somalia." That Oct. 3, terrorists staged the "Blackhawk Down" attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 U.S. soldiers and wounding 73.

The Iraqi Perspective Project, led by retired Army Lt. Col. Kevin Woods, reviewed an Oct. 7, 2000, document. It indicates that the Fedayeen Saddam operated paramilitary training camps that hosted "Arab volunteers from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, 'the Gulf,' and Syria" who were "sacrificing for the cause."

Lebanese-born Joseph Shahda translated for FreeRepublic.com a March 11, 2001, top-secret letter addressed "To all the Units" from Air Brigadier General Abdel Magid Hammot Ali and Air Colonel Mohamad Majed Mohamadi. The subject is "Volunteer for Suicide Mission." It reads, "We ask to provide ... (Command of Ali Military) Division with the names of those who desire to volunteer for Suicide Mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American Interests."

The May-June 2006 Foreign Affairs cites a May 25, 1999, text titled "Fedayeen Saddam Instructions" in which Uday Hussein, the tyrant's older son, orders "special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas" (Kurdistan). As the authors observe, "Preparations for 'Blessed July,' a regime-directed wave of 'martyrdom' operations against targets in the West, were well under way at the time of the coalition invasion."

President Bush repeatedly should remind everyone that coalition forces liberated Iraq on April 9, 2003, less than three months before "Blessed July."

(New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Va.)

[jveritas]

Thank you very much JerseyDvl. What I am doing is just a little payback for the great debt that I owe this great USA and no matter what I do I can never pay it back.

God bless America.

[bwteim]

Indeed. Noticed also in

California Ventura County Star: Opinion
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/opinion/article/0,1375,VCS_125_4602812,00.html

[april15Bendovr]

If the Bush Administration did give this information out we have to understand that the average person would have a hard time comprehending it. The MSM would try and discredit it knowing they have stupidity and Americas short term memory problems on their side.

[april15Bendovr]

I hate to say it but the mainstream media has been winning the propaganda war for Al Qaeda and the Insurgents. President Bush in order to be successful presenting these discoveries would have to point out the incompetence and clueless behavior of the MSM.Take a look at this article.

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20060326.aspx

March 24, 2006: Back on March 7th Muhammed Hilah Hammad al Ubaydi, better known as Abu Ayman, was arrested by Iraqi and Coalition security forces. He was the principal terrorist leader in the southern part of Baghdad Province and northern Babil. When Saddam was in power, Abu Ayman was a senior aide to the Chief of Staff of Intelligence. The leadership of the Sunni Arab terrorism against the post-Saddam government has been men like Abu Ayman. Several hundred of these guys, all former commanders in Saddams force of professional terrorists, have been running a bloody, clever, although unsuccessful, campaign against the new government. In particular, the Sunni Arabs have worked the Arab and Western media effectively. Careful observers will note that a disproportionate number of the Iraqis interviewed by the Western media are Sunni Arabs. The clueless Western journalists often let their subjects admit that they, or someone in their family worked for Saddam military or secret police. Naturally, these interviewees are not happy with the new government and all those American troops. That's what the foreign journalists want to hear, and fellows like Abu Ayman, who were in charge of playing the foreign media when Saddam was in charge, are still there to help arrange those interviews. 

[Salem]

You know, thanks very, very much for putting this all together. I can really, really use this, as well as a lot of other people. The Islamist/Democrat alliance has done much damage trying to discredit absolutely everything involved in the war on terror since 9/11, but having resources like this, posted permanently and in one place at Free Republic is great to have.

I recall discussing with SJackson way back how we read massive amounts of information from many different global sources pre-Iraq proving beyond any doubt of Hussein's involvement in the Middle East terror machine. These translated documents do much to clear the fog of misinformation put out not only by the MSM, but the Islamists and their Democrat party hacks.

And bottom line, with anything we might disagree with the Bush Administration on in other areas outside of the war in Iraq, it was only him who had the guts to take the drastic measures necessary to counter the Clinton years of mediocrity and appeasement in opposing radical expansionist Islam. For that, he still stands head and shoulders above the rest (except the men and women of the American armed forces serving at all points overseas, who stand tall above pretty much everybody else).

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[cmsgop]

Your A Star!,

America Thanks You!

[votelife]

you rock; you are impacting the course of this country with your keyboard, keep up the good, or may I say great, work!

[Spunky]

Thank you so much for all the time and effort you have been putting into translating the documents.

I have another question can you help me understand? In the article above it states; "President Bush repeatedly should remind everyone that coalition forces liberated Iraq on April 9, 2003, less than three months before "Blessed July."

Can you explain to me what is the "Blessed July"?

[jveritas]

Blessed July according to some documents was an planned offensive by the Saddam Regime to use terrorists and their agents to conduct attacks in Europe and other places in the Middle East.

[jveritas]

And I thank America :)

[cmsgop]

Thanks Again My Friend!

[jveritas]

Anytime :)

[jveritas]

Thank you very much for your nice compliment. I am just doing my little duty, the important thing is to let the truth out about these documents so more and more people will know about it.

[philetus]

Long Live Free Republic :) Ping

Long Live jveritas
Watch you're back

[SJackson]

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[Sender]

Thank you so much for your efforts! There are so few of us who can translate Arabic that it may as well be written in an uncrackable code.

[Sender]

And no, I am not one who can, sadly.

[hershey]

This is so important and the MSM will desperately try to bury it. Thank God for the internet and FR.

[SmithL]

Well, SOMEBODY lied, and if it wasn't Bush, . . .

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heh heh heh

[Stultis]

Bump!