Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection(Yes, Saddam financially supported terrorists)

Weekly Standard ^ | 03/18/2006 | Stephen F. Hayes

[KCRW]

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.

The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken. On March 16, the U.S. government posted on the web 9 documents captured in Iraq, as well as 28 al Qaeda documents that had been released in February. Earlier last week, Foreign Affairs magazine published a lengthy article based on a review of 700 Iraqi documents by analysts with the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Plans for the release of many more documents have been announced. And if the contents of the recently released materials and other documents obtained by The Weekly Standard are any indication, the discussion of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq is about to get more interesting.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Terry Nichols spent an awful lot of time in the Phillipines.

[Dolphy]

GWB admin had to cover for the x42 administration (USS Cole, WTC 1, Murrah/OKC) because x42, to cover his own a$$ and deny that terrorists hit the heartland of America on his watch, thusly ended up covering for himself and GWHB's allowing the x-Iraqi army officers to settle in Kansas.

I think the current President would just as soon die than see his father's name tarnished. At one time GWB held Clinton in near contempt over the campaign he ran against his father, so did Barbara...something changed and you might have the reason.

[fso301]

2. That America has evidence that the Iraqi government and the group of Osama bin Laden have cooperated to attack targets inside America.

Anyone out there still wondering why Timothy McVeigh was executed in record time?

[xzins]

This document shows how disgustingly political or how disappointingly inept was the 9/11 commission that could not verify any Iraq/Bin Laden link.

Without these documents any reading American was able to put together a scenario that certified such a link. I have a list of dozens of such links, and I was told again and again by the CIA/MSM not to pay attention to them, that I was not nearly as competent as they are in deciphering the truth.

But, now it's been confirmed that Iraqi/Al Qaeda links are many and extensive.

The media has lied and Americans have died.

They have dithered away the sentiment of the nation to win this war, and one can only wonder where in the world their ultimate loyalties lie.

The president's waiting on this has enabled me honestly and truly to see them for the traitors that they are. If that was his game, then he has succeeded in spades.

Now we know why the CIA is going through a house cleaning. Now we know that the CIA/MSM has run operations against our own sitting president. In any other era, and against any other 5th column, there would be trials, imprisonment, and even executions. They have cost the lives of our troops in the field.

This is treason.

[fso301]

People need to understand that they are going to have to plow through tons of documents that are trite and meaningless in order to find the few gems that will unlock the mysteries. It's going to be slow going but needs to be done by people who won't get discourged by the mundane nature of most of them.

Tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of non-muslim arab speakers out there who working in parallel could have these doc's translated in a jiffy.

[restornu]

Who is this media?
Who constitute this media"
Are they in the media moles?

They seem to look and dress and act like Americans
but are of some other allegiance?

[Rembrandt]

"Of course, we already knew that Saddam was in bed with Al Queda, now how do we convince the MSM to print these documents?"

Won't happen.

GWB should include this in a speech to the nation.

[xzins]

Yes, they are of some other allegiance.

They have systematically undermined our own troops and have led to deaths on the battlefield.

They have consistently played a drumbeat of negative news that has seemed in concert with the propaganda needs of the enemy.

Such a coordination was too good for the insurgents to have been coincidental.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Sadly, too many Americans today see all of these acts as only acts of dissent against an administration they love to hate. Their hate is so strong, that they can’t see past their efforts to destroy a President and see the destruction they cause on the other side. Or, they simply don’t care about the damage they cause because the end, winning seats in 2006 and 2008, justifies the means.

[infidel29]

marking

[Calpernia]

Just some notes:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts?page=77#77

http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/PDF_rms/no59/ch22.pdf

Pakistani national in one of the
apartments in Manila. Murad was a
member of an international terrorist
group planning to kill Pope John Paul II
on his scheduled visit to Manila from
January 10–15 for the Celebration of the
World Youth Day. Pieces of evidence
recovered revealed the group’s plan to
bomb U.S commercial airlines plying the
Manila - Hong Kong - Los Angeles. route.
This plot was to be the centerpiece of the
so-called “Oplan Bojinka” which was an
intricate network of international
terrorists using the Philippines as a
venue of their terrorists activities. The
bombing of a Philippine Airlines jet
bound for Japan from Cebu on December
11, 1994 was a test-run to Oplan Bojinka.
It can be recalled that one Japanese
national was killed while several others
were wounded during the incident.
4. Free Vietnam Revolutionary Group
(FVRG) Terrorist Cell
The presence of this terrorist cell was
recently discovered with the arrest of Vu
Van Doc, a U. S. citizen of Vietnamese
origin, Huynh Thuan Ngoc, a Swiss
citizen of Vietnamese origin and Makoto
Ito, a Japanese national on August 30,
2001. One of the arrested suspects, Vu
Van Doc, who operates a terrorist cell in
the Philippines is a member of the Free
Vietnam Revolutionary Group (FVRG),
the military arm of the Government of
Free Vietnam (GFV), a worldwide
organization engaged in liberating the
Republic of Vietnam from communist
rule.
The arrested suspects were reportedly
planning to conduct bombing activities
targeting the Vietnamese Embassy in
Manila on or before September 2, 2001,
which is the National Day of the Republic
of Vietnam.

[Tahoe3002]

Howdy, the fact that McVeigh was executed so quickly after his conviction removed, for me, all doubt about a mid-east connection. McVeigh should have died, no question.
But the Feds acted WAY too quickly. Executions by the Feds are very rare. True, this was a very rare crime, but clinton 'pulled the trigger' on this execution very quickly. STRANGE. This execution, IMHO, was to shut McVeigh's mouth.

[xzins]

Excellent and true article about treason.

Aiding and comforting the enemy should be seen from the enemy's perspective. If they perceive aid or comfort, then that is the issue.

Our CIA, our media, and many of our politicians and other leaders have given them occasion to heave great sighs of relief.

[BibChr]

I again recently raised the totally-serious question, "What would someone have to do, today, to be prosecuted for treason?"

Brilliant-idea-that-will-never-happen-#348: Some GOP senator should introduce a bill making treason legal.

Define the issue. Flush 'em out.

Dan

[xzins]

On the money, Dan.

Brilliant idea #349 .... line the sob's up against a wall and pull the trigger.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Easier just to shoot 'em than try 'em. Each treason trial would be Plamegate x 100.

John Walker Lindh is still stealing oxygen. That proves treason is not really against the law in America

[Cinnamon]

say it ain't so.. Saddam supporting terrorists and financing them? why... Daschle is very concerned

[fatima]

I don't undestand.You are our chaplain and who commited treason?

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons."

Wasn't this during the time the Burhams and the guy from California were kidnapped?

[xzins]

I am a retired army chaplain, and that has nothing to do with treason.

The behavior of all who knew or ignored the many evident links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, and who then undermined the war effort against known enemies -- these would be treasonous acts.

Included in that group would be many politicians, media hacks, and CIA operatives.