Posted on 03/26/2006 6:47:20 PM PST by april15Bendovr
Today: March 26, 2006 at 15:1:8 PST
Saddam Asks Arab League to Back Insurgents By JAMAL HALABY ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -
Saddam Hussein urged Arab leaders to support Iraqi insurgents, warning that an "American-Israeli conspiracy" aims to split Iraq into pieces, according to a Sunday posting on the Internet of a letter purportedly written by the former Iraqi leader.
The message warned Arab leaders holding a summit in Sudan beginning Tuesday that their countries could be next in what it called a grand U.S. scheme to divide Arab nations and control the Middle East's oil wealth.
The authenticity of the letter, which did not bear any handwritten signature, could not be verified. It was posted on a Web site that supports Saddam's former Baathist Party and has previously carried messages in his name.
A former member of Saddam's defense team said the item was written in the deposed leader's style. "The tone of the letter, the language used and the substance ... all point to the letter being Saddam's," Ziad Khasawneh told The Associated Press.
Saddam has spoken out in support of the insurgency during court appearances at his six-month-old trial for the killings of 148 Iraqi Shiite Muslims in the 1980s. In a March 15 appearance, he urged Iraqis to unite to fight American troops and praised the "resistance."
The Internet letter advises Arab leaders to support the insurgency, calling it "the bulwark to stave off waves of U.S., Zionist and Iranian conspiracies."
It said the resistance had "impeded the establishment of a global dictatorship led by the United States."
The letter did not refer to the al-Qaida network in Iraq, which is said to be behind some of the worst terror bombings in the country. Most insurgents in Iraq are believed to be native Iraqis - whether Saddam loyalists, Islamic militants or Sunni Arab nationalists.
"The historic solution to save the Arab nation is to support the armed Iraqi resistance materially and politically," the letter said.
Arab states do not need to make public their support for the insurgency but can back it secretly, the letter added, perhaps taking into account that several of the Arab League's 22 members are close allies of the United States.
The letter said the turmoil in Iraq "is not an accident or the result of mistakes made by the U.S. administration ... These are interconnected steps whose final goal is to split Iraq into three states" - Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish.
After dividing Iraq, the United States will carve up Saudi Arabia, Syria and Sudan, then establish a Palestinian homeland in Jordan and western Iraq, the letter said. That would let the U.S. control oil in the Arab world and Israel take over the West Bank, emptied of Palestinians, it said.
Anyone else reading this article have a hard time with the information in this line besides me?
Isn't that a new crime? Calling for attacks against the government...
Forget that. Who thinks Saddam is able to sneak out unsigned letters from his cell?
Well he is able to get Doritos?
Yeah. I thought that our coalition presence had drawn every undesirable foreign presence into Iraq. Oh well. It looks like the foreigners got their @ss handed to them and left. Now the sunni's and the shia's will duke it out for a while. They are killing each other more often than impacting coalition forces.
He's got Doritos and a set of not so tighty whities.
Sneaking out letters he's apparently able to write on a computer, print, but not actually sign, might be a little beyond credibility.
It should worry the House of Saud more that the Jihadis have left.
"Most insurgents in Iraq are believed to be native Iraqis"
Why are statements from that monster reaching the light of day?
Thank you - EXACTly what I thought!
why didn't he do us all a favor and try to run when they found him? one bullet would have stopped his theatrics before they started.
He was probably screaming like a little girl when our troops found him.
LOL! i bet you are right! too bad that pic we see of him looking like Charlie Manson doesn't have sound with it.
So much for the world Court not being in charge here. I'm sure being a new democracy Iraq has to look good in the eyes of the United Nations when puting their ex tyrant leader on trial. After all he was a fellow socialist to the U.N. (Baath Party) and not Slobodan Milosevic.
i just had a great idea while doing dishes (that happens quite often...lol) they should fit him with a shock collar and next time he starts shooting off his big mouth during the trial the judge (who will have the control) can zap him! :)
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