Saddam Surat # 5 – Abu Nidal's Terrorism Run Out of Saddam’s Personal Office

The Pasadena Pundit ^ | December 6, 2005 | Wayne Lusvardi

[WayneLusvardi]

Saddam Surat # 5 – Abu Nidal's Terrorism Run Out of Saddam’s Personal Office

“Iraq’s dealings with terrorist groups such as those run by Abu Nidal and Wadi Haddad were handled by Saddam’s personal office, and it was as a direct result of Saddam’s support for these internationally condemned terrorist groups in the 1970’s that the U.S. State Department added Iraq’s name to the list of countries accused of sponsoring terrorism.

Another infamous Palestinian terrorist who was harbored by Saddam during this period was Dr. Wadi Haddad, one of the founding members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the PLO group responsible for turning the Palestinian cause into a vehicle for international terrorism in the early 1979’s…Haddad moved to Baghdad in 1972, where he formed the splinter Special Operations Group. It was from there that he organized the infamous kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers during their meeting in Vienna in December 1975 and the hijacking of an Israeli airliner in Entebbe, Uganda. One of Haddad’s closest associates during this period was “Carlos the Jackal.” In addition to staging their own terrorist operations, Haddad’s organization linked up with a wide variety of European terrorist groups, including Germany’s Baader-Meinhof gang and the Japanese “Red Army.” According to an Iraqi defector…at least fifty members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) continued to reside in Iraq until the 1990’s, and made frequent use of the Mukhabarat’s terrorist training facilities….When Haddad died, of natural causes, in 1978, he was buried in Baghdad with full military honors.”

[WayneLusvardi]

Excerpt from Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall (2005)

[backhoe]

WayneLusvardi, when you compose these, it would be very helpful to include links to all the previous posts in the series. A lot of folks will not search for them, but will read them if they are linked.

[WayneLusvardi]

Great idea backhoe. I will do it on the next one.
WL

[backhoe]

Great idea backhoe. I will do it on the next one.

[ikez78]

Just found this after reading Coughlin’s chapter on Terrorism last night. Can you possibly post the original link for this Wayne so I can try to link to you from www.regimeofterror.com?