I find it difficult to believe that anyone would die for the sake of Saddam Hussein.
My experience of cult and religious fanatics is
that they generally are very mixed up people
who frequently live double lives.
I still am inclined to believe
that the 09-11 attack was the brainchild of Atta
who may have gone to Al-Qaeda and Iraq for financial and technical assistance.
True, although there are people carrying out suicide attacks on Israel almost daily now because Saddam bestows a small fortune on their relatives. Saddam's MO is consistent. He has a fairly limited bag of tricks, but he knows how to leverage them to the hilt. If you are militarily weak, kamikaze killers are on a par with anthrax -- enormously valuable unconventional weapons for levelling the playing field. Together, they make a particularly lethal cocktail. As Saddam does not himself inspire fanatical devotion, only fear, he has to look elsewhere for suicide attackers to advance his agenda -- to the Palistinians, and to Osama bin Laden. He has what they want, they have what he wants, and they all want the Jews killed off and the Great Satan America humbled. Is it any wonder they do so much business together?
The great leader Saddam Hussein has said, "When we feel that the Iraqis might starve, by God, we will open for them the great storehouses of the universe." The United States must understand that there is a limit to the patience of the Iraqis. They must not imagine that the destrction of Iraqi missiles and other weapons will strip the Iraqi people of their ability to influence matters and change the course of history. The will of a people who want to live in dignity is the strongest and most effective missile.Does the United States realize the meaning of opening the storehouses of the universe with the will of the Iraqi people? . . . Does it realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile than can cross to countries and cities?
Iraqi newspaper, Babil, September 29, 1994