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Saddam Hussein, terrorists and WMD, Part 2, al Qaida

September 15, 2008 |  Tagged , , , , |

Based on information from a variety of sources, I believe that Saddam Hussein cooperated with al Qaida and conspired with that organization against U.S. interests.

I’m not an attorney.  No.  I don’t play one on TV or radio.  I’m just an old U.S. Army Intelligence guy.  I do, however, believe that I have some basic understanding of the concept of complicity in criminal and or terrorist activity.  This is my layman’s view of the situation.

We have conspirators.  These are people who discuss a criminal activity, then someone involved commits an overt act to further the purpose of the crime under discussion.  We have accessories before the fact.  These are people who assist in preparation for the commission of a crime before it occurs.  We have participants in the crime, itself.  Then, we have accessories after the fact.  These folks assist the perpetrators of the crime in escaping law enforcement personnel, destroy evidence, provide shelter, or carry out some other activity with the knowledge that the assistance is provided in support of the criminals/terrorists.

I am going to assert that Saddam Hussein was at least guilty of being an accessory after the fact in the first World Trade Center bombing.  I believe he conspired with al Qaida to attack U.S. interests in 1995, and that he at least offered to be an accessory before the fact in the 09-11-01 World Trade Center/Pentagon airliner attacks.  (Hussein may not have had specific knowledge of the 9/11 attack plans, but he certainly knew, or should have known that bin Laden intended to continue his war against the U.S.)  I will discuss other circumstantial evidence and many unanswered questions about Hussein, al Qaida and WMD in future posts.

I believe it has been established that the first abortive World Trade Center Bombing was carried out by a group affiliated with al Qaida.  (Read the whole article, “Pages 1 and 2,” about seven actual pages.  I don’t know who arranged this thing.)  Also note the association of an Iraqi intelligence officer with attendees at an al Qaida planning meeting in Malaysia in 2,000.  According to Malaysian/U.S. intelligence reports, Iraqi operative Ahmad Hikmat Shakir rode with two of the future 9/11 hijackers to the hotel where the four-day meeting took place.  

Wanted Terrorist Abdul Rahman Yasin, who was named as a participant in the first WTC attack, reportedly lived in Baghdad, Hussein’s Capitol City, on a government pension following the 1993 bombing.  This would make Saddam Hussein an accessory after the fact in the first WTC attack, because he gave shelter and assistance to one of the wanted suspects.

A 1995 document that was apparently unavailable to the 9-11 Commission, because it had not yet been discovered and translated, appears to be an agreement between Hussein’s government and al Qaida to attack U.S. interests.  This looks a lot like conspiracy, considering subsequent al Qaida activities, including the attack on the USS Cole.

Finally, when al Qaida Chief bin Laden left Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein offered the terrorist asylum in Iraq.  Only bin Laden’s apparent refusal to accept the offer kept Hussein from again becoming an accessory after the fact in the first WTC bombing and the Kenyan and Tanzanian embassy bombings, and an accessory before the fact in the second WTC and Pentagon attacks.

I believe these examples are ”smoking guns” that give the lie to the idea that the secular dictatorship of Hussein would not and did not cooperate with the Islamofascist terrorist group known as al Qaida.

I further believe that people who say that there was no pre-invasion al Qaida involvement in Iraq and that the U.S. Government “took its eye off the ball” by deposing Saddam Hussein are either misinformed or disingenuous.  The strong circumstantial evidence of the Iraqi dictator’s involvement with al Qaida and other terrorist groups is also persuasive.  (Stay tuned for additional posts on this topic.) 

There is a French saying, “Dis-moi qui tu hantes, et je te dirai qui tu es.”  It translates roughly as, “Tell me who you hang out with, and I will tell you who you are.”  Hussein hung out with terrorists.

Def Mech    


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