"Blessed July" :Saddam documents details orders for an extensive terrorist operation.

Weekly Standard ^ | 03/24/2006 | Thomas Joscelyn

[IrishMike]

SADDAM'S ULTRA-LOYAL Fedayeen martyrs were ordered to carry out bombings and assassinations in London, Iran, and "self ruled areas" of Iraq in May 1999, according to a newly released Iraqi intelligence document. One such operation, codenamed "Tamooz Mubarak" or "Blessed July," was apparently intended to hunt down Iraqi dissidents and bomb other unspecified locations.

Although a copy of the original document was not released, an English translation was published on the Foreign Military Studies Office's Joint Reserve Intelligence Center website yesterday. The site cautions, "the US Government has made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, validity or factual accuracy of the information contained therein, or the quality of any translations, when available." But, the document appears to be the same as one discussed by a team of military and defense analysts in Foreign Affairs magazine earlier this month.

The Fedayeen Saddam was established in the mid-1990s and its ranks were filled with recruits fanatically loyal to Saddam and his sons. Uday, Saddam's eldest son, was the group's commander throughout much of its existence. And according to the Foreign Affairs piece, it was Uday who issued the order for the "Blessed July" operations.

[IrishMike]

The document does not say. But, interestingly, the "Blessed July" operation appears to have been conceived within a broader mandate for future attacks. The translated document refers to "your Excellency's orders" (probably a reference to Uday) in May 1999 "to start planning from now on to perform special operations (assassinations/bombings) for the centers and the traitor symbols in the fields of (London/Iran/Self ruled areas)."

The Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) was ordered to provide logistical support for these missions, including selecting targets to attack. After completing the regime's training program, the document reads, "the fedayeens will be sent as undercover passengers, each one according to his work site, for the purpose of preparations and to acquire from and coordinate with the Intelligence Apparatus." Fedayeen Saddam was also ordered to coordinate "with the Intelligence service to secure deliveries, accommodations, and target guidance."

[SittinYonder]

This one is new, I think.

[eyespysomething]

Thanks for the ping SittinYonder, and thanks for the thread IrishMike!

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[1035rep]

Interesting

[scottdeus12]

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[Enchante]

Surprise, surprise.... so the Saddamites had prepared to carry out bombings and assassinations in the UK..... I'm sure Gaseous George Galloway would say they were just devoted to the "people's revolution" and should be applauded. Exactly how many more such revelations are needed before the psychotic left and MSM begins to issues mass apologies for their wild, depraved dishonesty?? Oh, I forgot, "love [of revolution] means never having to say you're sorry."

"The document divides the "Blessed July" operations into two "branches," bombings and assassinations, and lays out specific steps for selecting and training 50 Fedayeen martyrs for these duties. The martyrs were to be admitted to a "seminar at the Intelligence School to prepare them for the required duties." Then, "after passing the final test," the martyrs were to be divided into three teams of ten (it is not clear what happens to the other 20). The first ten recruits "will work in the European field (London)," while the "second ten will be working in the Iranian field" and "the third ten will be working in the Self ruled area." Martyrs are even reminded to use "death capsules" if "captured at the European fields"--an apparent order to commit suicide if caught."

[cgk]

We almost need a whole new forum for the flood :) I LOVE IT.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Tidal wave picking up speed....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Russian connection:

March 25, 2006
Iraqi Perspectives Project & the Saddam Fedayeen

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Prior to reading the unclassified 210-page Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership, we commented earlier about the assistance the regime in Baghdad was recieving from the Russians, a charge that Moscow came out and denied on Saturday, calling it "groundless accusations."

Moscow based military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer described the reports of Russian assistance as "quite plausible" and added that "a unit affiliated with the Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Department, known by its abbreviation GRU, was actively working in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq."

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From the close

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The reports of Russian cooperation with the regime in Baghdad and Iraq's intent to deploy suicide operatives in Europe come together in the days before the war in Iraq, when Russian President Vladamir Putin privately warned the Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was preparing suicide attacks against the United States and U.S. interests abroad.

"After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests," Putin said, according to RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency. "American President George Bush had an opportunity to personally thank the head of one of the Russian special services for this information, which he regarded as very important," the Russian president told an interviewer while in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.

Could it be that Russian intelligence had picked up on the Blessed July operation due to their close connections with the Hussein regime and the Iraqi intelligence services, and Putin felt compelled to offer a shadowy, non-specific warning to Bush in private?

Posted by C.S. Scott at March 25, 2006 03:51 AM

[Mo1]

I want to hear from the media/press that Bush & Blair were right and they were wrong

[Marine_Uncle]

"Tidal wave picking up speed...."
Like I have been saying. It was so easy to be real smug on this one, since we have had so much to go on for a long time. GWB shall be eventually vindicated. Books on store shelves not the L/MSM shall bring out the truths long known by some of us in bits and peaces.
Things really are not going to look good for the demorats in the next few years. Two years plus is more then adequate for a lot of Americans to rethink their feelings on this POTUS once the news starts to leak into their minds from various sources. And GWB on those tours knows what is going to be presented as is now dribbling out. He is confident. And hopefully will continue this press conferences, and speach tours, hinting on some of the findings and referencing where people can go to get the truth. Harmony declassified document archives of course.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think they will be quiet for awhile longer!!!

[tubebender]

Drip by Drip...

[Grampa Dave]

"SADDAM'S ULTRA-LOYAL Fedayeen martyrs were ordered to carry out bombings and assassinations in London, Iran, and "self ruled areas" of Iraq in May 1999, according to a newly released Iraqi intelligence document."


Makes one wonder how Michael Moore, Howard Dean and Harry Reid will spin this and blame GW since GW hadn't "stolen the presidency from President Goron!"