US marines discover "PLF faction's bomb-making facility" in Iraq

ProLog ^ | Monday, 07-Apr-2003 9:20AM | AFP

[Smogger]

NEAR BAGHDAD, April 7 (AFP) - US Marines in Iraq have discovered bomb-making facilities at a facility described as a training camp operated by the a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), a military spokesman said Monday.

Bomb-making facilities, chemicals, mortars, gas masks and AK-47s were found inside the 20-building complex to the east of Baghdad, said Public Affairs Officer Corporal John Hoellwarth.

The complex, which was the size of a battalion headquarters, featured pictures of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, PLF faction leader Abu Abbas and the PLF's flag, Hoellwarth added.

Other photos included pictures of Abu Abbas posing with a brigadier general from Saddam's Republican Guard inside the camp.

Boxes of documents with PLF letterheads were also seized.

Stores of fresh food including fresh tomatos and potatos were seen, indicating that the complex had recently been vacated.

Followers of Abu Abbas carried the deadly attack in 1985 on the cruise ship Achille Lauro, but renounced terrorism after the 1993 Oslo peace accords between Israel and Palestinians.

Abbas had been based in Tunisia but was more recently thought to be based in Baghdad.

lh-co/dab

Iraq-war-PLF-training

[Smogger]

Iraq's links to terrorism bump. Courtesy of the French news agency AFP. :P

[Earl B.]

Of what possible relevance is this to our quest for Iraqi oil and Jewish supremacy?

[MeekOneGOP]

[dinok]

You can take the anti-war idiots and show them all this, and they will say it was all planted.

[yonif]

more evidence of iraqi sponsored terrorism the leftists refused to admit.

[xm177e2]

Of what possible relevance is this to our quest for Iraqi oil and Jewish supremacy?

Check again. The "PLF" is the "Palestine Liberation Front," an anti-Israel terrorist group.

[Smogger]

Check again. The "PLF" is the "Palestine Liberation Front," an anti-Israel terrorist group.

He was being sarcastic.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Also posted here: US marines discover "PLF faction's bomb-making facility" in Iraq
 

(but I know searching "PLF" doesn't work)

[george wythe]

Other photos included pictures of Abu Abbas posing with a brigadier general from Saddam's Republican Guard inside the camp.

Followers of Abu Abbas carried the deadly attack in 1985 on the cruise ship Achille Lauro

Were these the thugs who pushed an American citizen into Mediterranean Sea, a crippled man on a wheel chair whose only crime was to have a Jewish heritage?

What happened to the "courage" of Abu Abbas' followers?

Is their "courage" good enough only to push wheelchair-bound handicapped people into the ocean?

[Rockitz]

Has Hans Blix been fired and/or indicted for fraud yet?

[Smogger]

Yah! I tried searching for that exact title and found nothing. But the titles are identical.. Hmmmm..

[craig_eddy]

Not the LFP (Liberation Front of Palestine), you're sure? </sarcast Monty Python reference>

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I have the same problem with FR searches. Three letter word searches never turn up anything (CIA, FBI, etc.).

Olde

[Ben Hecks]

"Abbas had been based in Tunisia but was more recently thought to be based in Baghdad."

Soon after the strike on Saddam's bunker, there was a report (Palestinian source) that Abbas was in the bunker and was killed.

[MindBender26]

"a crippled man on a wheel chair whose only crime was to have a Jewish heritage"

Leon Klinghoffer

How about the airport being Klinghoffer-Baghdad International?

[laz17]

Has Hans Blix been fired and/or indicted for fraud yet?

The whole UN should be indicted, starting with Kofi Annan. And they're still demanding the opportunity to commit more crimes. The UN is the most corrupt organization on the face of the earth, followed closely by the DNC.

[xm177e2]

Yeah, I'm sure he was being sarcastic, but I think what he really meant was "this war is about terrorism, not oil or Israel." This particular terrorist group, which is based in Iraq, is also about Israel.

[river rat]

"....He was being sarcastic.

Do you know Earl B. well enough to say that?
I just assumed he was an asshole off his meds....
Semper Fi

[AnAmericanMother]

I remember the grim joke going the rounds at the time:

P.L.O. = "Push Leon Overboard"

[cyncooper]

Is this going to turn out to be just a pesticide making plant?

[Darksheare]

Remember the Achille Lauro?
The Palistinian Liberation Front terror group has this training facility near Baghdad.
Read article.

See connection.
Be enlightened for once.

[hellinahandcart]

Hee hee...

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[My2Cents]

Our good friends the Palestinians, who "deserve" a state of their own....Bull!

[Ingtar]

Only confirmed death in the bunker on the first night was an officer in PLF.

[Michael.SF.]

This is getting off subject, for that I apologize and if the administrator wants to delete, feel free. But, I was going to add a comment about Mr. Klinghoffer, because I recalled reading that he was a decarated War veteran and that possibly had more to do with his killing, then the fact that he was also Jewish.(quick search did not confirm his status regarding military service.

But i did come across this and to be honest I am a bit flabbergasted:

About The Death of Klinghoffer

The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams' second opera, takes as its subject the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985. Again the concept for the opera was suggested by director Peter Sellars. The L.A. Opera shared the work's commission but never presented it.

Cast of Characters
The Captain, bar
First Officer/"Rambo", b-bar
Swiss Grandmother/Austrian Woman/British Dancing Girl, ms Molqui, t Mamoud, bar
Leon Klinghoffer, bar
Omar, ms
Marilyn Klinghoffer, c
Choruses of Exiled Palestinians and Exiled Jews, etc.

Synopsis
The Death of Klinghoffer is told in a very different style than Adams' previous opera, "Nixon in China". While based on historical events, Klinghoffer does not always treat them in a traditionally narrative....

I am, frankly stunned. I mean on the surface this sounds like a "Springtime for Hitler"` style 'bad taste' award nominee.

You never know what you find in these search engines. I simply searched under "Leon Klinghoffer" and got that garbage.

[ChadGore]

But, but, but this can't be . . Islam is a religion of peace and Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism! < / sarcasm >

[Stultis]

Soon after the strike on Saddam's bunker, there was a report (Palestinian source) that Abbas was in the bunker and was killed.

The Rapist let Abbas attend a speech of his in Lebanon (IIRC) as a V.I.P., and George "Dubya" Bush kill't him.

Pretty much says it all right there. Thank You, Dubya!

[OldFriend]

Guess you would think that was funny.

[George W. Bush]

I am, frankly stunned. I mean on the surface this sounds like a "Springtime for Hitler"` style 'bad taste' award nominee.

Another modernist knocking the classics of Western civilization.

Me-thinks there are a few people (not you, MSF) who are too touchy on this thread. A few FReepers must have missed their naps and are a little cranky.

[Illbay]

This should come as no surprise to anyone.

Abu Abbas died in Baghdad "under suspicious circumstances" just last year.

[Illbay]

Ahem. I think he was being sarcastic.

[Beck_isright]

Hmmm, Axis of Evil was bogus they said. It was just too much drama they said. It was a fallacy created by the paranoid right wingers they said. FYI, they=DNC.

V

[visualops]

Of what possible relevance is this to our quest for Iraqi oil and Jewish supremacy?

rofl!

[AnAmericanMother]

Nope, heard it from a Conservative Jewish friend of mine.

Like I said, it was a grim joke. Remember that at that time there was a strong faction in America -- even among American Jews -- that really, really wanted to make peace, any sort of peace, with the P.L.O. They were willing to bargain away Israel's security for peace at any price. That thinking eventually led to Oslo. At the time, many of the peace advocates were not angry -- they were "disappointed" . . . that the radicals couldn't "restrain themselves" long enough to get a peace agreement.

Hence the bitter humor from my Jewish friend. He thought that the peace-at-any-price crowd were almost as willing to push Leon overboard as the P.L.O.

[cgk]

No, but he has announced he will be retiring soon. I guess he knew the game was up and it was only a matter of time before we found all those smoking guns.

[visualops]

and they will say it was all planted

They already are...

[cardinal4]

Iraq has no connection to terrorism bump

[Beelzebubba]

"I remember the grim joke going the rounds at the time: P.L.O. = "Push Leon Overboard""

Or the recipe for the Klinghofer drink special: two shots and a splash.

(Forgive me for this terrible joke.)

[cardinal4]

Abu Abbas died in Baghdad "under suspicious circumstances" just last year.

I thought that was Abu Nidal? Or are they the same person? And at the same time, wasnt it the PFLP, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, responsible for the Achille Lauro? Not that one group name makes a difference, they are all assholes....:)

[AnAmericanMother]

OMG, I had forgotten that one.

Half the folks I knew were convinced that with "understanding" and "right treatment" the PLOers could be made to "see the light" and renounce violence. The other half of us were doubting and shaking our heads, because they weren't looking at the elephant in the living room - the persistent denial of Israel's right merely to exist.

And here we are almost 20 years later . . .

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well, more finds!

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[Future Snake Eater]

Of what possible relevance is this to our quest for Iraqi oil and Jewish supremacy?

Shhh! You'll ruin everything if you tell...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No doubt. 20 buildings and enough weapons & materiel to fill several warehouses mean nothing to the libs and mainstream muslims that choose to minimize/rationalize terrorism.

[FBD]

Good Post! Ping to jla;
Hey, share this article w/ your lawyer friend,if you think it would make any differance. (probably not)


FReegards

[Miss Marple]

I actually saw part of the opera "Nixon in China" on our PBS channel several years ago. I watched in horrid fascination as the soprano, with hairdo and clothes exactly like my memories of Pat Nixon, sang the role of the First Lady. The guy who sang the Nixon part was made to look like Nixon, too.

There is a reason this opera isn't in the repertoire of most major opera companies. Trust me.

[ApesForEvolution]

I agree. The 'palestinians' have a state. It's called Jordan. They don't deserve JACK! If they got what they deserve...

[ApesForEvolution]

That was Abu Nidal I believe. Apparently committed suicide by shooting himself multiple times while in exile, in Baghdad...

[Enduring Freedom]

Earl, you are a pearl!

Nice line, and if it was misunderstood, it is to be expected - your sublime comment was a stealth bomber at night, and just as deadly effective!