More Bad News for Daschle [Info on one of those killed in the air strikes last night]

National Review Online ^ | 3/20/2003 | Michael Ledeen

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The vision-challenged opponents of the war against the terror masters, those who have been saying that you can't fight Saddam and terrorism at the same time, got bad news today from Baghdad. It turns out that our surgical strike on Wednesday night — the one aimed at the "top leadership" of Saddam's little hell-between-two-rivers — got an unexpected bonus: a terrorist from the Palestine Liberation Front. And the good news comes not from the Pentagon but from the PLF itself.

According to UPI, the Palestine Liberation Front said Thursday one of its guerrillas was killed during the U.S. missile strikes on Iraq. A PFL statement released in the southern city of Sidon (Syrian-occupied Lebanon) identified the slain guerrilla as 1st Lieutenant Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz who was killed early Thursday "while confronting the treacherous U.S. air bombardment on Iraq."

I don't know anything about the late Mr. Al-Baz, but I know all too much about the PLF and its evil leader, Abu Abbas. This was the group that organized the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro back in the mid-1980s. They segregated the American passengers from the rest, and then courageously pushed an American Jewish paraplegic in his wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, into the Mediterranean. We tried to have Abu Abbas arrested in Italy, but he escaped through Yugoslavia to Yemen.

The PLF has long been one of the most lethal Palestinian terrorist groups, and achieved notoriety for its high-tech killings. Recently, Abu Abbas had come to live in the Palestinian Authority, but when Israel moved against the terrorists there he ran away — to Baghdad. The PLF has been one of the main conduits for Iraqi money to Palestinian suicide bombers.

So, in a single stroke, we have demonstrated the rightness of our cause and the wisdom of President Bush. It makes no sense to distinguish between the terrorists and the regimes that support them, for they are one and the same. We targeted a high-level meeting of top Iraqi officials, and willy-nilly eliminated a member of the terror network. Time will tell just how good and how lucky we were in the opening salvo of the Second Gulf War. But there is already cause for satisfaction.

Somebody should tell Daschle and Byrd.

— Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. Ledeen, Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, can be reached through Benador Associates.

[MHGinTN]

To the IDF, "You're welcome."

[SeenTheLight]

Yes!

[js1138]

Yes, but this just reinforces the claim that we are doing it for the joos.

[Grampa Dave]

Even though Soddamned may be alive, it sounds like we got a fairly important Islamofacist/kazi!

Thanks for the good news.

[Grampa Dave]

Some good news here re a bonus from last night's foreplay!

[mattdono]

Wow! The great JohnHuang2 giggle at one of my posts. I am honored.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"I am saddened by my irrelevance"

[nopardons]

LOL ! True...one hand washing the other.

[Grampa Dave]

Don't have a little art to share with us re the Da$$hole and doing something for food?

[Cold Heat]

Looking forward to finding the french connection!

[JohnHuang2]

Gracias, amigo :^)

[landerwy]

I thought once I heard him when he got confused and said he was "SADDAMED" instead of "SADDENED". Maybe it was Tommy's double.

[seams2me]

I'm sorry, that's simply not possible.

You see, there IS NO CONNECTION between Saddam's regime and organized terror.

[Kryptonite]

This is great news!

Wonder who will be the dead terrorist of the day in tomorrow's news.....

[seams2me]

oh YEAH, good one. It's true, any slimy thing that lives under a rock, the French put on the menu at the highest of prices.

[george wythe]

I don't know anything about the late Mr. Al-Baz, but I know all too much about the PLF and its evil leader, Abu Abbas. This was the group that organized the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro back in the mid-1980s.

They segregated the American passengers from the rest, and then courageously pushed an American Jewish paraplegic in his wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, into the Mediterranean.

Thank you for posting this article.

Good info for those of us who were not paying attention to the news in the 1980s.

[Beck_isright]

V

[Cap Huff]

LOL!!!

[Petronski]

"No really,
I am deeply
saddened."

[Yankee]

I'm saddened, concerned, troubled etc, etc, etc...........

Daschle is soooooo over.