Carbomb diplomacy

Regime of Terror ^ | 3-21-2007 | Mark Eichenlaub

[ikez78]

Iraq’s former embassy in Greece added to list of Hussein's international terror outposts

A recent story in the Greek news outlet Ekathimerini, pointed out to Regimeofterror.com by Dr. Laurie Mylroie, reported on previously undisclosed evidence implicating Saddam Hussein’s regime in international terrorism aspirations. The report reveals an incident in which a number of items were secretly removed from Iraq's embassy in Greece during the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The items removed fit a pattern of behavior but also raise a number of questions.

Ekathimerini reported that it had been made aware of "a joint operation by Greek and US secret service officers in March 2003 (which) led to the seizure of a large cache of explosives from the basement of the Iraqi Embassy in Athens." The types of explosives reportedly discovered were particularly noteworthy . "Sources said a raid on the embassy unearthed explosive materials, car bombs, detonators, several guns and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Much of the material was “ready to use” while some was too old to be of any value, according to sources who said all the material was destroyed within a few weeks of discovery."

The presence of car bombs, explosives and the other materials in this instance would indicate that Hussein's Iraq had used it's Greek embassy just as it had used it's embassy's in the Philippines, Jordan, Prague, and Yemen in recent years, as a hub for terrorism. This is to say nothing of Iraq’s planned international terror attacks in London (as reported on page 53 of the Iraqi Perspectives Project) or the attempted bombing attack by Iraqi operatives in Bahrain during the runup to the invasion of Iraq (Senate Intelligence Report: Phase II).

This discovery follows Iraq’s modus operandi of using their embassies and diplomatic privileges as cover for hiding and moving weapons/explosives/equipment abroad for potential terror attacks.

These were not the first time Iraq had dipped its toe in the waters of international terrorism. In 1998, in what some viewed as a possible buildup to war between the U.S. and Iraq, U.S. News and World Report cited intelligence officials saying over 30 teams of terrorists, each team consisting of 2 to 3 men had been dispatched by Baghdad in 1991 and indicated that similar attacks may take place against U.S. interests again in 1998 in the case of a war with the U.S.. (It should also be noted that those in the intelligence community were said to be split during this time period as to whether or not Iraq had already dispatched similar teams of terrorists at this point.) The men, who were disguised as businessmen, used Iraq's diplomatic pouches to move automatic weapons, explosives and timers to embassies around for planned attacks. Former deputy director of the State Department's counterterrorism office during the Gulf War, Larry Johnson, told U.S. News and World Report in the same piece that car bombs, assassinations and hostage taking were "likely scenarios."

With the discovery of Greece as a front in Iraq’s pre-invasion international terrorism attempts maybe Americans will even one day be made aware of what the other 6 or 7 countries are which U.S. government officials told the Washington Post's Walter Pincus were targeted anti Western bombings by Iraqi Intelligence.

Saddam Hussein , Iraq, terrorism

[tioga]

-which is why they are doing themselves right out of a job......the internet offers news faster and more accurate for FREE. they are obsolete.....it will catch up to them.

[Sam Hill]

That's hilarious. Any article that cites Larry "C for Crazy" Johnson as a source for anything is immediately self-discrediting.

[Bahbah]

Larry "The Loon" Johnson who will say anything at all to advance whatever agenda he is following at the time.

[Txsleuth]

Thanks..

Mo1...click on the Larry Johnson link...and read his blog about the POTUS candidates...he wants Joe SESTAK to run for POTUS in 2008...LOL

[pinz-n-needlez]

I take my self-imposed duty to fill other people's filing cabinets very seriously. ;-)

I love to see where these little tidbits lead to later on. :-)

Good to see you're still here. I was concerned yesterday...

[ikez78]

Well, he was only saying what others were saying at the time. That info was also in the State Dept reports from the time as well.

[Enchante]

Most ironically, in the same time period in which Iraq's terrorist plans and grotesque abuses (to transport and conceal terrorist weapons) of the diplomatic system in Athens was being uncovered, the US "political counselor" in our embassy in Athens was busy resigning in protest. Mr. John Brady Quisling, er, Kiesling made a public stink.... lucky for him he wasn't blown up by Saddam's terrorists:

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/transcripts/2003/mar/030307.kiesling.html

[ikez78]

wow, good find. thanks

[justiceseeker93]

This is all consistent with Iraq's major role in the blowing up of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. That Iraqi agents were at the core of the Oklahoma City plot is well documented in Jayna Davis' book, "The Third Terrorist," published by 2004 by WND Books.

McVeigh and Nichols, the only two men charged in the case, both had numerous Iraqi connections developed from the their time in Iraq during the Gulf war of 1991. They served as a convenient front to allow the Clinton Administration to pin the entire blame on domestic right wing extremism. But those two were only pawns in much broader Iraqi-dominated conspiracy which claimed the lives of over 200 Americans.

[ikez78]

Jayna has done some great work on that topic.

[Marine_Uncle]

The evidence continues to grow about the butcher's involvment over the years in support of terrorism. The damn problem is the administration wavered, swayed back and forth, facilitated, admitted to things it really should not have. So the world thinks we went into Iraq with little evidence. The L/MSM saw where it could have a field day with statements people like Powell made.
The whole PR of this administration has been a close to an abortion.

[Marine_Uncle]

post #31.

[ikez78]

I thought you guys might be interested in this.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Thanks for the heads up.

[ikez78]

No prob.

[ikez78]

Saw you on the prewar docs articles and thought you would want to see this.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS for the ping,,,interesting stuff...

[ClaireSolt]

Regaqrding the media disinterest, I'll admit this is all very complicated and hard to follow. I realized that when I got my hair cut this week and heard what they were saying at the barber shop. Not a clue. Media types don't have the background to follow it, and it doen't fit well into sound bites.

Kudos to Laurie. She keeps on plugging, even though she is mostly ignored.

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks for the heads up, Ikez.

Jveritas.....any association with the captured documents from the Saddam regime in Iraq? Why did their release stop.......things were getting interesting.


Read an interesting article by Charles Krauthammer that was posted a day or so ago, chiding the Dems insistence that the real war on terror should be confined to Afghanistan and not Iraq. Let's see if I can find it again.