Saddam Targeted America
By Mark Noonan at 05:14 AM
This is from Captain's Quarters:
A new document from the captured Iraqi files in Baghdad now appears to show that Saddam Hussein's regime not only had ties to al-Qaeda and financed terrorist efforts but also explicitly attempted to recruit people to attack American interests. According to Laurie Mylroie, page 6 of the document is a memo from the command of an Iraqi air force base asking for volunteers for suicide missions:
In the Name of God the Merciful The Compassionate
Top Secret
The Command of Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base
No 3/6/104
Date 11 March 2001
To all the Units
Subject: Volunteer for Suicide Mission
The top secret letter 2205 of the Military Branch of Al Qadisya on 4/3/2001 announced by the top secret letter 246 from the Command of the military sector of Zi Kar on 8/3/2001 announced to us by the top secret letter 154 from the Command of Ali Military Division on 10/3/2001 we ask to provide that Division with the names of those who desire to volunteer for Suicide Mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American Interests and according what is shown below to please review and inform us.
Air Brigadier General
Abdel Magid Hammot Ali
Commander of Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base
Air Colonel
Mohamad Majed Mohamadi.
If this translation stands up to further scrutiny, it will provide a substantial answer to the question of Saddam's role in terrorism, both in general and specifically aimed at America. This memo will prove that Saddam had no intention of remaining neutralized in the region. He not only funded and encouraged terrorism, but he actively recruited terrorists from the ranks of his own military to carry out suicide attacks on American interests.
It seems that it does hold up: Captain Ed had the document re-translated by two other sources, and the document comes out the same way in all three translations. This proves, conclusively, that Saddam was a direct threat to the United States before 9/11. The only thing bin Laden did, it would seem, was beat Saddam to the punch.
Lost in all the leftwing lies and slanders about the liberation of Iraq is the fact that Saddam's power was growing before 9/11 as the sanctions regime was collapsing via oil-for-food bribes. Even if 9/11 hadn't happened, we'd eventually have had to fight Saddam again - much better to do it sooner rather than later.
The left, of course, will reject this: the story that Saddam was no threat is just too ingrained in leftwing thinking. Indeed, Saddam must have been no threat or all the leftwing complaints about the liberation of Iraq are absurd.
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