Posted on 04/06/2006 1:46:20 PM PDT by 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.)
Surely these documents will collectively reach CRITICAL MASS at some point. The MSM will have to start reporting with honesty on these documents.
One or two documents they (MSM) can swat down, but a critical mass of documents will SWAT them down if they don't get their act together... soon!
What could be more important than the perky one.
Great Job JV on a great Site.....
Can we say Murdock has thrown down the Gauntlet to the MSM?
Thank you Doctor :)
Come to the Celebration!
I guess the media lurks here...:-)
Thank you very much. We are on this great forum to have great debates and to spread the truth.
Has anyone seen any reporting AT ALL on the docs? I've seen the ABC piece or two. And I've seen the Philippine story in Weekly Standard.
Anything else?
Any 20/20, or nighly news show, special on FOX, main topic on sunday talk shows, congressional hearings, anything...
I think I'm going to punch my TV if I hear one more segment on how 'Bush tried to DESTROY Wilson by outing his secret covert agent, just becuase Wilson was exposing Bush's liies' while things like these documents are shelved until they pile up enough for a whole magazine.
Sidenote: Watching chrissy's show on Sunday, Mr. Lib Howard Feinmen or whatever of newsweek was a bit surpirsing in his 'tell me something I don't know' segment. He said: "All those conservative liberal bloggers running around about the Saddam documents, are really on to something..."
That's what I'm talking about! It's such an honor to be a member of Free Republic because of the incredible work freepers do every day. Way to go!
That's a neat label.
Thank you very much :)
That's so true. I was just saying how much of an honor it is to be a member. Freepers are a hell of a breed. All the folks you'd want on your side if your back was up against it.
..well done...
April 06, 2006
Saddam Targeted American Assets For Terrorism (Update)
Fishtalk had a hand in getting the UPDATE added at the bottom of the article./....
Many of us care deeply about the US and the threats we face, but we don't quite know how to help.
Kudos to you for recognizing a way to contribute and doing so. I know that I speak for many others in thanking you.
One thing that seems to have been forgotten is the follow-up attack to 9/11 - anthrax. And the only one besides us and the Russians who had the kind of weaponized anthrax used was... Saddam Hussein.
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