A Terrorist And Saddam Hussein?

Needed to note this tonight as I doubt it will get much attention in this piece via The Moderate Voice on Carlos the Jackal, considered the world's deadliest terrorist until bin Laden came along. Trained in Palestine, he killed almost 100 people in a series of bombings and kidnappings throughout Europe before his arrest in the Sudan. He denounces al Qaeda as mostly amateurs.

He eluded the CIA and French intelligence with the help of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, the Libyan leader, Saddam Hus-sein in Iraq and a network of bases behind the Iron Curtain.

Saddam Hussein, you don't say? Funny, I thought Saddam wasn't down for the whole terrorism thing?

Comments

[daveinboca]

Saddam was a terrorist and was down with AQ up in the northern mountains of Sunnistan near the Iranian border---as long as they were Arabs & terrorists & would punch out Kurds, he was okay with them. The "Legacy of Ashes" book by Weiner on the CIA shows how bad our intell on Saddam was, but Carlos is correct about AQ competence. Remember, most three-digit IQ types can pull off a SUICIDE-bombing!

Carlos & his Fatah killers got away after their exploits---bloody & cowardly though they were. Mohammed Atta & his crews are the only real success story among the bungled attempts. Remember that idiot shoe-bomber? That's the AQ average hit....

[Mark Eichenlaub]

Right on Dan. Got a new piece coming up in a few minutes on another Saddam Fedayeen guy being another one of Zarqawi's top guys post invasion. Funny how that works out isn't it?

[ether]

I'm not even a liberal and I can tell your desperate for a post here...

Does anyone really claim Saddam was against terror? I hear links to Al Qaeda doubted all the time, but seriously, do you want to use Carlos the Jackal as evidence justifying an attack on Saddam in relation to AQ?

You don't come out and say it, but it seems that's the direction of the post.

Reaching.

Not helpful.

You're only helping reinforce the caricature liberals are trying to impose on any real concern for terrorism.

[Chris]

Ether,
The only people who claim that the deposition of Saddam was in direct response to AQ are on the left. That Saddam assisted CtheJ is of passing interest to anyone who follows terrorist activities. He was apprehended by the French in 1994 which would seem to indicate that Saddam was assisting one of the world's most wanted terrorists going back at least to the early 90's.

There were 23 reasons for going into Iraq, as outlined in the AUMF and approved by the overwhelming majority of the US Congress in 2002. Carlos isn't among them. Your dismissive attitude to the threat posed by Saddam is the only caricature on display.

[Mark Eichenlaub]

Eth,
As the manager of www.regimeofterror.com I get emails and comments like what I wrote above constantly. I also have Google alerts for about 20 variations of this topic so that I read the op-eds and "news" pieces on this at a rate of about 30 a day.

I know what people on the left, including the MSM, say about this topic and it's reflected above. Thanks for the note though.