Nazi Background of Saddam Hussein

www.chuckmorse.com ^ | February 4, 2003 | Chuck Morse

[Tailgunner Joe]

Kharaillah Tulfah, Saddam Hussein's uncle and future father in law, along with Gen. Rashid Ali and the so-called "golden square" cabal of pro-Nazi officers, participated in a failed coup against the pro-British government of Iraq in 1941. Operating behind the scenes in Baghdad at the time, and arranging for Nazi weapons and assistance was the notorious pro-Nazi Haj Amin al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The Mufti had been on the Nazi payroll, according to testimony at the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, since 1937 when he had met with Adolf Eichmann during Eichmann's brief visit to Palestine. Saddam Hussein was born in 1937.

The Mufti, after instigating a pogrom against Jews in Palestine in 1920, the first such pogrom against Jews in the Arab world in hundreds of years, went on to inspire the development of pro Nazi parties throughout the Arab world including Young Egypt, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser, and the Social Nationalist Party of Syria led by Anton Sa'ada. After the failure of the 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Iraq, the Mufti fled to Berlin where he spent the war years heading a Nazi-Muslim government in exile and using confiscated Jewish funds in a largely successful effort to further pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda in the Arab world. While in Berlin, the Mufti also helped form pro-Nazi Muslim Hanschar brigades in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.

Kharaillah Tulfah, participant in the 1941 pro-Nazi coup and an advocate of a pan-Islamic Nazi alliance along with the Mufti, raised and educated his nephew Saddam Hussein from age 10. In 1959, the 22-year-old Saddam failed in an attempt to assassinate Iraqi leader Abdel Karim Qassim. He subsequently fled to Egypt where he received refuge from fellow Mufti disciple Nasser. At the time, Nasser, along with the Mufti himself, who resided in Cairo after the war and his conviction by the Nuremberg Tribunal of war crimes, was spearheading what was known as the Odessa Network, which facilitated the settlement of thousands of Nazi criminals in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world. In 1962, Saddam married Sajidah Tuffah, the daughter of his uncle and mentor.

Saddam triumphantly returned to Baghdad in 1963 after a successful coup by the Ba'ath Party against Qassim where he assumed control of State Security. The Ba'ath seizure of power in Iraq was followed by firing squads and murder of political opponents reminiscent of Castro's seizure of Cuba. Saddam was chief interrogator and torturer at the infamous Palace of the End set up as a torture chamber under the auspices of State Security.

Saddam became absolute ruler in 1979 after assassinating over 20 leaders of his own party. He immediately proceeded to implement the Nazi vision of his uncle and the Mufti. In Iraq, Saddam annihilated of his opponents and, using his absolute power, developed a personality-cult around himself reminiscent of the Nazi Furherprincip. Like the Nazis, who sought to implement a new social order based on socialist and nationalist principles, Saddam has sought to develop a united Arab order under his personal control. Imitating the example of Hitler, Saddam set up concentration camps and began to carry out a planned program of genocide against the Kurds.

Saddam, in control of weapons of mass destruction, is today's chief disciple of the infamous Grand Mufti, the Nazi war criminal. Like the Mufti, he will stop at nothing in his quest to annihilate the Jews and defeat the western democracies. His regime is the Nazi principle manifested today in all its horror and inherent evil and like the Nazis before him, he must be utterly crushed if there is to be any peace.

[Ciexyz]

The Discovery Channel aired a special on Saddam last week that covered his early years and his expertise in assassinations.

[The Great Satan]

Saddam's been around. As a youth of 20, he took part in an attempted assassination of Iraq's leader, Abdul Kareem Kassim -- this was before most of us were even born. The coup failed: Saddam was shot but escaped to Cairo, while most of the other conspirators were arrested and executed. He's not some little pushover rich kid/nancy boy like bin Laden. He's the real deal. I would caution against underestimating him.

[Vigilanteman]

Saddam, in control of weapons of mass destruction, is today's chief disciple of the infamous Grand Mufti, the Nazi war criminal.

And Yassir Arafat, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

[MonroeDNA]

National SOCIALIST alert. That's what the NAZI's were (are). As in Leftists.

Anyone know the real name of his Ba'ath party?

Something about socialist.

[Gael]

While in Berlin, the Mufti also helped form pro-Nazi Muslim Hanschar brigades in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.

And guess where the Handzar division was revived not so long ago.

Saddam isn't the only one with a nazi background.

[Archimedes2000]

Ba'ath Socialist Party. Started by a white socialist, Michael something or other.

[Enterprise]

But,but,but - how can this be? The left is always accusing the conservatives of being Nazi's.

[cavtrooper21]

I was always under the impression that Saddam's idol was good ol' Uncle Joe Stalin. I was not aware of his connection to the Nazis. But, I suppose, when you peel off the retoric and propaganda they are both the same beast.

[Momaw Nadon]

Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

[MonroeDNA]

Thanks!

Socialist party...gee, who would have guessed?

Sadam is a SOCIALIST!!!!!!!

As was Hitler and his Nazi Party!

LEFTISTS!

[Man of the Right]

The Baath Party was a fascist movement based on the Italian Black Shirts.

[dixiechick2000]

That may explain the high level of support from France, Germany, Canada and, of course, Hollywood.

[Man of the Right]

I remember. I'm 54. I was 10 when Kassem murdered the Iraqi royal family. At the time, Kassem was regarded as a dupe for a Soviet communist takeover. The Soviets took great pains to court army officers through arms and training. There was great alarm and consternation in the U.S. Saddam's assassination attempt on Kassem was not publicized widely in the States, but Kassem's 1963 assassination was. His disgusting corpse was televised on TV in Baghad and thence around the world and regarded as emblematic of Iraqi barbarism.

[Man of the Right]

There's little mystery if one has the Old Farmer's Almanac. I don't. It will be a moonless night in March.

[river rat]

Shared dreams.....Shared hatred...... Allies in life and death...

Islamist radicals --- hate Jews. Nazis --- hate Jews.

Working together...against the Jews and the West....

Semper Fi

[spetznaz]

I agree with you. Saddam is not some snotty-nosed rich boy like Osama who was provided with an opulent wealth-base from birth. Saddam basically is the type of fella who is a go-getter and is quite assertive in obtaining what he wants. I was looking at the guy's history and he basically had to work real hard to get where he was ....and that journey was rife with danger and potential mishaps. Yet through usurping power, sagacious subterfuge, and at times brute force (although in the beginning it was all a mental game because then he lacked the power to exert overt authority) he managed to become the sole ruler of Iraq.

The guy may seem illogical and asinine, but it is wise to remember the guy has been ruling Iraq for decades, and has survived many attempts on his life and leadership ....including standing up against the combined Allied forces (he even had the gall to put out a hit on a US president)

Saddam may be a brute, but he is not a stupid brute. He gambles with his life everyday (messing with the US is a huge gambit ....especially because you really never know if just above the cloud line is a B-2 Stealth bomber bearing down on you with a neat lil' package from uncle Sam). He is by essence a gambler, but he knows how to play his cards right and up to now the house has been on his side (although if I were him i would ahve quit while i was ahead and taken one of the Asylum options open to him ....particualrly the British one .....although he probably knows within a year the Israeli Mossad would be hunting for him).

Once Saddam knows that the gig is up he will probably (at least i would) engage some hara-kiri 'salt the earth' endgame maneuver ...similar to what he tried in Kuwait (what do you think setting the oil fields ablaze was) ....but this time a little bigger.

I saw a report he once tried to smuggle a nuclear bomb in a flat-bed truck into Tehran, the capital of Iran ......and in another tactic he was trying to send a nuke in a cargo ship into Haifa, an Israeli port.

Saddam must have an end-game strategy, and i think it is a little more complex than what most think it is (most say it is to set the Iraqi oil fields ....the world's second largest source of crude oil ....into a blazing inferno). Personally i think he would rather do soemthing that will hurt the international community directly ....and although an end to iraqi oil would deal a severe blow to financial markets (not to mention gas prices for cars and industry, and the economy in general would go into convulsions) i believe Saddam would at the same time want to do something that hits the west (read: America) and Israel ....and hit them hard.

Saddam has something up his sleeve. I do not think it is a nuke smuggled into Haifa ....but i think it will be something 'significant.' I myself can think of a number of nasty things i could do if i was the leader of a nation like Iraq, and although none of them are nukes all of them would make the headlines for months on end.

[ez]

Ba'ath Socialist Party. Started by a white socialist, Michael something or other.

Michel Afflaq.

[ez]

The Baath Party was a fascist movement based on the Italian Black Shirts.

More info here.

[ez]

WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN joined the Baath party in Iraq in the 1950s, it had only about 300 members. But it was developing the Leninist party structure that Aflaq had observed in France. There were local cells, divisions, and branches, culminating in the ruling elite, the Regional Command and the Regional Command Council. The Arab Socialist Baath party, or ABSP, developed internal security and intelligence networks and even theoretical journals to develop party dogma. From the first, party statements were marked by a highly charged ideological style, which separated the world into the party of pure good (the Baathists themselves) and the party of pure evil (just about everyone else). As Tariq Aziz, a longtime party leader, noted in the 1980s, "The ABSP is not a conventional political organization, but is composed of cells of valiant revolutionaries. . . . They are experts in secret organization. They are organizers of demonstrations, strikes, and armed revolutions. . . . They are the knights of the struggle."

Once in power, the party behaved, in some respects, as Leninist parties do everywhere. It built a parallel party structure on top of the normal government bureaucracy to enforce loyalty and conformity. It established its own army, in addition to the regular Iraqi army, and its own intelligence service, which at first was given the otherworldly name the Apparatus of Yearnings. Ambitious young people were compelled to join the party if they hoped to rise, or even study abroad. Leaving the Baath party to join another political group remains in Iraq a crime punishable by death.

Looks like the Hitlerian melding of socialism and fascism to me.