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Support for Terrorism Baghdad actively sponsored terrorist groups, providing safe haven, training, arms, and logistical support, requiring in exchange that the groups carry out operations ordered by Baghdad for Saddam's objectives. Terrorist groups were not permitted to have offices, recruitment, or training facilities or freely use territory under the regime's direct control without explicit permission from Saddam. Saddam used foreign
terrorist groups as an instrument of foreign policy.
Groups hosted by Saddam were denied protection if he
wanted to improve relations with a neighboring country
and encouraged to attack those Saddam wanted to pressure.
If they refused Saddam's "requests," they were
exiled from Iraq - Saddam
funneled his funds through the front, which gave $25,000
to the families of suicide bombers, $10,000 to the
families of those killed in the intifada, and smaller
sums to the wounded. " - Thousands
of specially manufactured suicide belts have been
recovered from schools and mosques since spring of 2003.
"The black leather vests with wires running along
them weighed about 8 kg and were filled with long
rectangular blocks of C4 plastic explosive and hundreds
of ball bearings." - Saddam
used a 727 fuselage to train hijackers at Salman Pak in
Iraq on the Tigris River. - Saddam used anthrax and poison gas to kill Iranians, Kurds and other Iraqis. Hans Blix stated in 2003, "Iraq has declared that it produced about 8,500 litres of this biological warfare agent, which it states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction. There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared, and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date. It might still exist. As I
reported to the Council on 19 December last year, Iraq
did not declare a significant quantity, some 650 kg, of
bacterial growth media, which was acknowledged as
imported in Iraq’s submission to the Amorim panel in
February 1999. As part of its 7 December 2002
declaration, Iraq resubmitted the Amorim panel document,
but the table showing this particular import of media was
not included. The absence of this table would appear to
be deliberate as the pages of the resubmitted document
were renumbered." - The first
bomber of the WTC in 1993 came to America on an Iraqi
passport. Ramzi Yousef is serving a 260 year sentence. - Saddam
harbored other 1993 WTC bombers. "U.S. authorities
in Iraq say they have new evidence that Saddam Hussein's
regime gave money and housing to Abdul Rahman Yasin, a
suspect in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993,
according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement
officials." - John Doe
number two, who helped McVey, is an Iraqi, Hussain Hashem
Alhussaini. He was identified by several witnesses in a
U.S. court where he lost his lawsuit to the newspaper who
named him as Doe 2. He then went to work at Boston's
Logan Airport where the Sept. 11 hijackings originated. - In 1998,
Osama bin Laden spent six weeks or more in Baghdad at the
request of Iraq's deputy director general. - Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi consul in Prague. The Czechs still claim this to be fact. " The Czech envoy to the UN has confirmed that an Iraqi agent met with suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in the latest rebuke to widespread U.S. media reports dismissing the Prague encounter as a fabrication. "The
meeting took place," Hynek Kmonicek, a former deputy
foreign minister, told The Prague Post flatly in a New
York City interview." - Atta was
in concert with Saddam and visited Baghdad in July 2001,
prior to auguring air crafts into our trade towers. - Al Qaeda
literature and videos are found regularly in Iraq by the
Coalition. The first were found in Baghdad in 2003: -
"Saddam Hussein tonight called for a jihad –
holy war – against the US led invasion of
Iraq.“Therefore, Jihad is a duty in confronting
them,” Saddam added, saying “those who are
martyred will be rewarded in heaven. Seize the
opportunity, my brothers.” - Stephen
Jones, the trial attorney who first represented Tim
McVeigh, cited evidence of a meeting in Davao City, in
Mindanao in 1992 or 1993, when Yousef members, Abdul
Hakim Murad, Wali Khan Amin Shah and a "farmer"
met to discuss the Oklahoma bombing. - Saddam
Hussein's regime prepared terrorist attacks against the
United States and its interests abroad, Russian President
Vladimir Putin said. - Saddam
Hussein, had plotted to assassinate former President
George Bush during Bush's ceremonial visit to Kuwait in
mid-April. - Ba'th
Socialist Party The Ba'th
Party was nationalistic, populistic, socialistic and
revolutionary.
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