Saturday, March 18, 2006

More Saddam Docs

Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has been following the translation of captured Iraqi documents for quite some time. He has a long and very detailed piece up that includes the following quote concerning the Saddam Fedayeen:

Preparations for "Blessed July," a regime-directed wave of "martyrdom" operations against targets in the West, were well under way at the time of the coalition invasion.


There is also an interesting part concerning Libya's support of the Phillipine terrorist organization Abu Sayaf via disguised via payment of ransom for kidnapped victims of Sayaf. That's a nice twofer - gain public acclaim for humanitarian behavior by supporting terrorists.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

I have wondered about the relationship of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nicholson with all this.

I know they had some connections in the Phillipines but so far as I know the government has stated there is no connection between them and any mideastern terrorists. So far as I know there has never been any explanation given for the trips Nichols made to the Phillipines.



There are still a lot of people in Oklahoma who wonder about that, especially considering the fact that McVeigh was not only a veteran... he was a veteran who felt that Saddam had been badly treated in the Gulf War.

People can think that is crazy if they want, but look at the last several years since the firt Gulf war. We know there was a connection between Iraq and the first attack on the WTC through the chemical man Yasin who disappeared the month of the invasion.

Then there was an attempt on Bush 1's life. Then came all the other attacks in Africa and the mideast etc.

And here, right in the heartland we have an attack by two Americans who are pissed about what? Waco? Come on....

Rick Ballard said...

Laurie Mylroie and Frank Gaffney sure feel the same way.

Perhaps the answer is in the untranslated Saddam docs. I think both Iran and Iraq use cutouts every minute of every day around the world.

Unknown said...

Rick:

I remember the world before the mullahs took over in Iran and while I know that all the oil wealth and WW2 and Israel as a target have impacted on international terrorism, it seems to me there are common denominators in the world wide spread of terrorism as both weapon and propaganda. Maybe it is all just one big coincidence, but I wonder.

Syl said...

Maybe it is all just one big coincidence, but I wonder.

And to top it all off, multi-culturalism rose in the West making it more difficult to confront the forces gathered around.

Was that a co-incidence too? I think not. Edward Said, an Islamist, got the ball rolling with his book and lectures on Orientalism.

The push has been on for a few decades.

Unknown said...

syl:

But I have the feeling people are pushing back. Low polls for Bush do not translate into a win for the forces of weenie hood.

Unknown said...

david:

That and maybe his numbers will be better then.

Rick Ballard said...

"The documents are coming out at a very opportune moment,who knows what will have been translated by November?"

Just luck, I suppose.