Posted on 03/21/2008 1:54:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
SADDAM Hussein's Iraqi regime had an Australian aid worker killed as part of a state-sponsored terror program that also considered a plan to "eliminate" Australian-educated Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel.
Top-secret Iraqi documents confirm for the first time that Care Australia worker Stuart Cameron was shot in Iraq in 1993 as part of a government campaign against foreign aid workers helping Kurds in the country's north.
On the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, which toppled Saddam's regime, the sweep of his terrorist activities and plotting have been revealed in millions of documents gathered by allied forces from Baath party offices and Saddam's palaces.
The documents, including correspondence between Baath party officials, paint a complex picture of Saddam's sponsorship of national and international terrorism and portray a leader willing to do anything to advance Iraqi hegemony in the region and beyond.
The documents are contained in a US Institute for Defence Analyses report released by the Pentagon, which says they provide "strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism".
"In the period after the 1991 Gulf War, the regime of Saddam Hussein supported a complex and increasingly disparate mix of pan-Arab revolutionary causes and emerging pan-Islamic radical movements," the report says.
In one letter, Iraqi intelligence boasts about its performance after killing Cameron, a former Australian army major and father of two, and other aid workers. At the same time, however, Saddam's regime was publicly expressing outrage and blaming Cameron's death on Kurds.
In May 1993, Iraqi intelligence wrote to Iraq's defence minister in a letter marked "top secret and private" that Cameron's murder was "executed by our directorate in fulfilment of your excellent direction".
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Of interest.
WOW... thank you very much for the ping.
i got this now. i need to make a tally of all his us targets. got a good one so far
That is an excellent thing to do.
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