Heh. In Northern Iraq which is NOT controlled by Saddam but instead by the Kurds under US and UK supervision :-)
Excuse me?? Then why was Abu Nidal found dead of an apparent multi-gunshot suicide IN BAGHDAD??
newsmax.com
Or Abu Abbas, who you claim only visits N. (kurdish) Iraq, when he went to Baghdad to praise Saddam:
Several expatriate terrorist groups continued to maintain offices in Baghdad, including the Arab Liberation Front, the inactive 15 May Organization, the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), and the Abu Nidal organization (ANO).
PLF leader Abu `Abbas appeared on state-controlled television in the fall to praise Iraq's leadership in rallying Arab opposition to Israeli violence against Palestinians. The ANO threatened to attack Austrian interests unless several million dollars in a frozen ANO account in a Vienna bank were turned over to the group.
Heedquartered in Baghdad, the PLF and Abbas were responsible for the Achille Lauro attack that led to the execution of a crippled American.
terrorismfiles.org
How about Abu Zubair al-Haili, (aka: Fowzi Saad al-Obeidi, a former Iraqi intelligence officer), whose family seems not to have suffered from his defection (unlike so many other Iraqi families of defectors)?? He was captured in Morocco, along with other terrorists, including the man who recruited Muhammed Atta (who the Czech intelligence folks claim met with an Iraqi intelligence officer)..
efreedomnews.com
Furthermore, there is widely acknowledged evidence, including testimony from high-ranking Iraqi defectors, that Salman Pak, located near Baghdad, is a terrorist training camp:
intelmessages.org
Two Iraqi defectors this month provided details on a terrorist training camp south of Baghdad in Salman Pak, first identified by United Nations weapons inspectors in the early 1990s. The defectors, in accounts provided by Iraqi opposition leaders, described a separate, secret compound where non-Iraqi Arabs, most of whom appeared to be Islamic radicals, were drilled in terrorist acts. Among other things, the trainees practiced hijackings in small groups, armed only with knives, on a Boeing 707.
"We always just called them the terrorist camps," says Charles Duelfer, former deputy chairman of the U.N. weapons inspection program in Iraq. "We reported them at the time, but they‘ve obviously taken on new significance."
Oh really? What happened then after this "investigation"?
Same Article from above:
Farouk Hijazi, Iraq‘s ambassador to Turkey and reputedly a top official in Saddam‘s intelligence service, went to Afghanistan in 1998, after bin Laden was implicated in the US embassy bombings in East Africa, and offered the accused terrorist sanctuary in Iraq. Iraqi officials deny any such invitation. But Vincent Cannistraro, former counterterrorism chief at the CIA, says the agency has evidence to the contrary: "Hijazi wanted bin Laden to relocate to Iraq, but bin Laden turned it down. He knew Saddam wanted to make him a tool of Iraqi policy."
But the OFFER WAS MADE Zonder.. They WANTED to work with a group like Bin Laden's, and that indicates that they were looking to merge their own "false flag" terrorist activities with those of Bin Laden.. It's NOT whether Bin Laden agreed or not, but the fact that a HIGH OFFICAL in Saddam's intelligence service traveled there in the first place, right after the embassy bombings in Africa where HUNDREDS OF NON-AMERICANS were killed.
Intent, Zonder.. Intent and Motive.. THAT is sufficient in itself for the US to act to protect itself from Saddam's schemes.
There is a difference between people who die of natural or accidental causes and those who get killed while huddling in a bunker with their children.
How about those being shot in the back of the head, or kidnapped and never seen again under Saddam oppression?? Is there a difference there between those folks huddling in a bunker and those huddling in dark, stinking and filthy cells with no ability to hope that anyone knows they are still alive??
Defense of self and loved ones from immediate attack by someone who wants to do the same to you. That's about it.
Oh?? Saddam tried to assassinate Bush Sr. and the Kuwaiti Emir. So is Bush Jr. defending his family and himself??
We know that Saddam sought to form links with Al-Qaeda (as described above), who were responsbible for the embassy bombings, USS Cole, and 9/11.. Thus, it's plainly clear that, given the chance and inclination, Saddam would pursue such operations in the future. He certainly has little hesitation to shoot at US aircraft acting to prevent his attacking the Kurds and Shia Marsh Arabs..
That sounds like self-defense to me... Especially since Saddam has not complied with the UNSC resolutions and has effectively violated his "probation".
And don't tell me that you wouldn't kill someone who has tried to kill you in the past and failed, but your information indicates is likely to do it again... It's either them or you... and at a primal, instinctive level, you'll act pre-emptively..
Because unlike the world you or I live may live in, there is no police force that you can call to protect you on an international level... You have to call the local private security force to enforce the law, or take the law into your own hands to remove a potential threat to your security.
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