Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection(Yes, Saddam financially supported terrorists)

Weekly Standard ^ | 03/18/2006 | Stephen F. Hayes

[KCRW]

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.

The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken. On March 16, the U.S. government posted on the web 9 documents captured in Iraq, as well as 28 al Qaeda documents that had been released in February. Earlier last week, Foreign Affairs magazine published a lengthy article based on a review of 700 Iraqi documents by analysts with the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Plans for the release of many more documents have been announced. And if the contents of the recently released materials and other documents obtained by The Weekly Standard are any indication, the discussion of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq is about to get more interesting.

[KCRW]

Of course, we already knew that Saddam was in bed with Al Queda, now how do we convince the MSM to print these documents?

[highlander_UW]

now how do we convince the MSM to print these documents?

It seems very unlikely the MSM will ever print any documents that would prove they were wrong for years. If they admit they were wrong, and not just a little wrong, but bashing the president in the middle of a war borderline treason wrong would invalidate their claims of objectivity as well as accuracy. Of course those are already invalid, but they'd have to admit it...something they'll never do.

[MizSterious]

Ping!

[Victor]

Hmmmm.....Terry Nichols connection?

[MizSterious]

"The second, an internal Iraqi Intelligence memo on the relationships between the IIS and Saudi opposition groups, records that Osama bin Laden requested Iraqi cooperation on terrorism and propaganda and that in January 1997 the Iraqi regime was eager to continue its relationship with bin Laden."

Folks, there is no way the grinning liars on the left can spin this. They can try, but it this is explicit--Saddam and Osama were in it together. I can't wait for the ones that will finally tell us how Saddam helped with 9/11. It's probably in there somewhere, because I believe he did.

[MizSterious]

I think Jayna Davis has always thought so--if you get a chance, pick up her book, "The Third Terrorist" about the OKC bombing.

[livius]

Wonder if we'll ever find the Iraqi connection with Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war vet who apparently became very anti-American and pro-Iraq during his Desert Storm service, and with his convicted co-conspirator who had a strong Philippines connection (his wife was a Filipina, and her family lived in the same building as the terrorists who were plotting to kill Pope JPII on his visit, IIRC). Of course, even if it were found out, I doubt that it would be made public.

[backhoe]

Hmmmm.....Terry Nichols connection?

Old, old files:

-The OKC Bombing Roundup--

OKC Bombing Links

The top link had some updates.

[syriacus]

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s,

I think the libs must be noticing this trend of translations of documents showing that Saddam wanted WMD's and that he had connections with Al Qaeda. They won't admit it yet, of course. But, the facts must be gnawing away at the neatly arranged anti-war arguments in their tiny, tiny minds.

Many reasons why Saddam should have been deposed

[Unkosified]

Yes, Saddam financially supported terrorists

That can't be true. The moonbats say so.

[syriacus]

they'd have to admit it...something they'll never do.

Libs are a lot like two-year-olds, aren't they? Little Chuckie Schumer, proved he is like a two-year-old during the hearings for Scalia and Roberts.

[syriacus]

Correction: Chuck Schumer proved he is like a two-year-old during the hearings for Scalia Alito and Roberts.

[BenLurkin]

"An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons."

[madison10]

Gee, who would have thought it? ...and all this time we thought Saddam was up for sainthood.

[TomGuy]

All of this is much less than six degrees of separation.

Murrah/OKC very probably entangles with the Iraqi military GWHB allowed to settle in the Kansas City area which could be entangled with Nichols of Kansas and McVey who had connections to the Philippines where bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had connections.

If we were to play connect-the-dots, we'd eventually end up with one relatively large single dot of Islamofanatic terrorism.

GWB admin had to cover for the x42 administration (USS Cole, WTC 1, Murrah/OKC) because x42, to cover his own a$$ and deny that terrorists hit the heartland of America on his watch, thusly ended up covering for himself and GWHB's allowing the x-Iraqi army officers to settle in Kansas.

What a sticky wicket. No wonder the 9-11 Commission, principally with Jamie Gorelick and Benvenista at the helm, was empowered (and commissioned) to cover up the whole nasty mess as best they could. No wonder Rep. Weldon is being made a pariah for his insistence on investigating and publicizing the Able Danger data-mining program.

Six degrees of separation? I'd bet the connections could be made in three degrees or less, if all the details were truly know.

[FreedomNeocon]

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[VOA]

Not suprising.
IIRC, it was pretty well accepted that Abu Sayeff conducted their
kidnapping operations as a conduit for funding.
In other words, they'd kidnap innocents, then someone like Khaddafi would
send a million-dollar ransom.
The kidnapping was just a way to allow the foreign sponsors like
khaddafi a simple money-transfer method to fellow travelers like
Abu Sayeff.

[fooman]

Jayna Davis will want to see this, but I forgot her screen name.

[TomGuy]

Is there a date when that directive was issued?

I find item #2 very interesting.

[roses of sharon]

The entire leftwing media spent the 90's editorializing to Clinton about intell worries over a OBL/Saddam hook-up.

But they have managed to completely purge that decade and the words they wrote during that time, from the public mind.

They will have no trouble spiking these stories.

We must fact the fact that the big media controls mass communication, and endeavor to destroy them.