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“Saddam’s Dangerous Friends”
The Weekly Standard ^ | 3-24-2008 | Stephen Hayes
Posted on 03/15/2008 6:18:02 AM PDT by ikez78
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/889pvpxc.asp?pg=1
“Saddam’s Dangerous Friends
What a Pentagon review of 600,000 Iraqi documents tells us.”
by Stephen F. Hayes
03/24/2008, Volume 013, Issue 27
This ought to be big news. Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein actively supported an influential terrorist group headed by the man who is now al Qaeda’s second-in-command, according to an exhaustive study issued last week by the Pentagon. “Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda’s stated goals and objectives.” According to the Pentagon study, Egyptian Islamic Jihad was one of many jihadist groups that Iraq’s former dictator funded, trained, equipped, and armed.
The study was commissioned by the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, and produced by analysts at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally funded military think tank. It is entitled “Iraqi Perspectives Project: Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents.” The study is based on a review of some 600,000 documents captured in postwar Iraq. Those “documents” include letters, memos, computer files, audiotapes, and videotapes produced by Saddam Hussein’s regime, especially his intelligence services. The analysis section of the study covers 59 pages. The appendices, which include copies of some of the captured documents and translations, put the entire study at approximately 1,600 pages.”
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/6202.htm
Islamic Jihad Threatens Massive Attacks In Israel To Prevent Ceasefire Agrement
Abu Dajaneh, military commander of the Al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing, has said that that hundreds of human bombs in Gaza and dozens in the West Bank are ready to carry out massive attacks in Israel in order to thwart attempts to arrive at a ceasefire with it.
Source: Al-Jarida, Kuwait, March 14, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-14