You have been asserting Saddam might have been unaware that infamous international terrorists like Abu Abbas and Abu Nidal were enjoying sanctuary in his country. His police state would certainly have to massively incompetent - so much so that one would have to wonder how he remained in power for 2 and half decades - for this to be true. These facts were widely reported in the western press. You'd think he knows as much as western reporters about the subject.
In regard to Yasin, western reporters visiting Iraq (whom we know to have been kept under government monitoring and control) were able to locate Yasin.
Your assertions are ridiculous and you and everyone else here are smart enough to know it. Thus I assume you are embarrassed by having to argue on behalf of Saddam's possible innonence by ignorance and incompetence.
RE. the link I posted - it works for me and works for others who've tried it. Claiming the link doesn't work wouldn't be a convenient way to ignore the information, now would it? Any way, here is the information from the link you are unable to access:
Yasin, Abdul Rahman
Aliases: Abdul Rahman S. Taha, Abdul Rahman S. Taher, Aboud Yasin
Gender: Male
Biography: Abdul Rahman Yasin was born April 10, 1960 in Bloomington, Indiana, where his father was a graduate student, and grew up in Iraq. He returned to the United States in the early 1990's, to live with his mother and a brother who were living in Jersey City. There he met Ramzi Yousef who recruited Yasin for a 1993 plot to blow up the World Trade Center. Mr. Yasin helped mix the chemicals used in the blast, at one point severely burning his leg.
Yasin lived with several of the WTC conspirators at 34 Kensington Ave in Jersey City. The FBI initially detained Mr. Yasin after the attack and then released him. After it realized its error, the FBI placed Abdul Yasin on the list of "Most Wanted" terrorists, but Yasin had already fled the country. On the evening of March 5th, Yasin departed the United States on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight. The FBI believes that Yasin flew to Jordan and then drove twelve hours to Baghdad, where he has relatives.
A reporter for ABC News spotted Yasin in Baghdad in 1994 and reported that he was operating freely. A neighbor told the reporter that Yasin was working for the Iraqi government. Documents recovered from postwar Iraq indicate that Yasin received not only safe haven in Iraq, but also funding from the former Iraqi regime.
In an interview with the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in June 2002, Mr. Yasin admitted his involvement in the World Trade Center bombing and expressed regret for what he had done. "I'm very sorry for what happened," he said. "I don't know what to do to make it up."
Abdul Rahman Yasin is still at large. The US is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to his apprehension or conviction.
Yasin is 5'10" and weighs 180 pounds. Yasin possibly has a chemical burn scar on his right thigh. He is also an epileptic and takes medication for his condition.
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