[lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens' Hypothetical Iraq War
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:18:29 -0500
More:
http://70.169.163.24/
The US Army Foreign Military Studies Office
archive of unclassified documents and media
captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=11786
"Blessed July"
3/28/2006 the Weekly Standard
One of the Saddam documents details orders for an
extensive terrorist operation.
by Thomas Joscelyn
Saddam's ultra-loyal Fedayeen martyrs were
ordered to carry out bombings and assassinations
in London, Iran, and "self ruled areas" of Iraq in
May 1999, according to a newly released Iraqi
intelligence document. One such operation,
codenamed "Tamooz Mubarak" or "Blessed July," was
apparently intended to hunt down Iraqi dissidents
and bomb other unspecified locations.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/61506.htm
SADDAM & OSAMA
March 27, 2006 -- Right at the top of the left's
catalogue of George W. Bush's "lies" about the War
on Terror is the one about Saddam Hussein's ties
to terrorism in general - and to al Qaeda in
particular. No evidence exists, the critics say,
to show serious ties between the deposed Iraqi
dictator and Islamist terrorists.
Looks like the president's enemies will have to
come up with another one.
ABC News reports that a newly translated Iraqi
government document discloses that an official
representative of Saddam met directly with Osama
bin Laden in Sudan on Feb. 19, 1995 - and that the
al Qaeda leader had suggested "carrying out joint
operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia."
As ABC notes, this document is critical because it
shows that substantial contacts with al Qaeda were
"approved personally by Saddam" and that bin Laden
was pushing a working relationship.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85301/kevin-woods-james-lacey-williamson-murray/saddam-s-delusions-the-view-from-the-inside.html
Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside
Kevin Woods, James Lacey, and Williamson Murray
From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&issue=20060322
Iraq And Terror
According to Iraqi intelligence documents, Osama
bin Laden met in February 1995 with Iraqi
officials, with the approval of Saddam, to discuss
"joint operations" with the Baghdad strongman. The
documents show that the Mukhabarat nurtured its
ties to Osama at least through 1997.
In January 2001, when al-Qaida members got
together for a summit in Malaysia to plan the 9-11
attack, one of the key participants was a man
named Ahmed Hikmat Shakir. And who was Shakir? A
lieutenant colonel in the Saddam Fedayeen elite
military force, under the command of Uday Hussein.
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