Arafat Colluded With Saddam Against Iraqi Opposition

Israel National News ^ | 14:01 Jun. 27, '03 / 27 Sivan 5763

[yonif]

The article presents the text of an internal telegram of Iraq's secret service, dated March 3, 2000, in which the sender, in Jordan, informs Baghdad central intelligence command of a coming Iraqi opposition attack against the Hussein regime in Kirkuk. The sender writes that the intelligence comes from "Abu Ammar" (Arafat's nom de guerre), who, according to the letter, was willing to act however the Iraqi intelligence command deemed appropriate in order to prevent the Kurdish/Shiite rebellion. The telegram was recently confiscated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), under Jalal Talabani, one of those rebels mentioned in the document.

The text of the coded message, as appearing in a-Sharq al-Awsat and translated by MEMRI, follows:

"Code Name 202 [Jar Allah, Second Secretary at the Iraqi Embassy in Amman] announced, without the knowledge of Code Name 347 [Sabah Yassin, Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan] that Palestinian Ambassador [to Iraq] 'Azzam Al-Ahmad asked to meet with the above code name [Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan] and to give him a coded letter from Yasser Arafat to Tareq 'Aziz. Following is the text of the letter:

"'Brother Abu 'Ammar received a letter from his acquaintances that said that Jalal Talabani, together with the Kurdish Islamic Movement, Baqir Al-Hakim's [Iraqi Shiite leader] group, and a number of Iraqi officers who fled with direct Iranian support and incitement, are planning to attack Kirkuk. In advance of the attack, flyers were distributed, to prepare for the 'No-rouz' Intifada, in a arrangement similar to the one of 1991 [A reference to the Kurdish attack on Kirkuk on March 21, 1991, which is the new year - No-rouz - celebrated by the Shi'ites and Kurds], so that it will be accompanied by disturbances and [resistance] operations in the center and the south [of Iraq].'

"The letter said that the attack on Kirkuk would be an Iranian reaction to the recent Mujahideen Khalq operation. The letter's sender asked Brother Abu 'Ammar to act quickly in cooperation with Iraq so as to ease the tension with Iran and with the Kurdish forces so that this would not be a threat to the region. Brother Abu 'Ammar asked me to give this to you, and he, on his part, is willing to act however you see fit. End. Received 16:30."

Furthermore, the telegram apparently confirms claims made by various exiled Iraqis over the years that Arab governments and their security forces were in collusion with the Hussein tyranny in the latter's efforts to suppress, assassinate and persecute Iraqi opposition members around the world. According to the a-Sharq al-Awsat correspondent, Shirzad Shaikhani, Iraqi intelligence used to recruit agents at embassies of various countries around the world to spy on Iraq's own diplomats. The article singles out the Amman bureau, from where the letter was sent, as the hub for all branches of Iraqi intelligence in all the Iraqi embassies in Arab countries, MEMRI reports, and "in the years following the 1991 Gulf War, the Amman bureau acted to assassinate and arrest many members of Iraqi opposition organizations located in Jordan."

[yonif]

And yet, the safety net around terrorist Arafat remains.

[Steely Tom]

Wow. There seems to be practically no limit to the Palistinian aspiration to push against the outer boundaries of what it is to be a scumbag.

These people are to being a scumbag what Albert Einstein was to being a scientist.

(steely)