As more and more documents are translated and examined, the scope of Saddam's activities as a terrorist sponsor is being revealed. This connects him again with the terrorists in Gaza, and with the PLO and Arafat.
The fact he paid suicide bomber families has already been proven. Piece by piece , the Left are being shown for the liars that they are, and more and more the undeniable truth that President Bush was right to invade is being shown.
Saddam was a threat.http://www.stuff.co.nz/4448707a12.htmlBy Geoff Elliott
Article from: The Australian
SADDAM Hussein's Iraqi regime had an Australian aid worker killed as part of a state-sponsored terror program. Top-secret Iraqi documents confirm for the first time that Care Australia worker Stuart Cameron was shot in Iraq in 1993 as part of a government campaign against foreign aid workers helping Kurds in the country's north.
The program also considered a plan to "eliminate" Australian-educated Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel. On the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, which toppled Saddam's regime, the sweep of his terrorist activities and plotting have been revealed in millions of documents gathered by allied forces from Baath party offices and Saddam's palaces.
The documents, including correspondence between Baath party officials, paint a complex picture of Saddam's sponsorship of national and international terrorism and portray a leader willing to do anything to advance Iraqi hegemony in the region and beyond.
This included targeted assassinations of aid workers supplying humanitarian relief to the Kurds.In one letter, Iraqi intelligence boasts about its performance after killing Cameron, a former Australian army major and father of two, and other aid workers. At the same time, however, Saddam's regime was publicly expressing outrage and blaming Cameron's death on Kurds.
In May 1993, Iraqi intelligence wrote to Iraq's defence minister in a letter marked "top secret and private" that Cameron's murder was "executed by our directorate in fulfilment of your excellent direction". The documents detail correspondence from a terrorist operative in the Gaza Strip sent to Baath party officials in Baghdad, in which a plot is discussed to kill Mr Indyk, a world-renowned scholar on the Middle East who twice served as US ambassador toIsrael.
The letter was written on June 30, 2001, and spoke of Mr Indyk's ability to interact with local identities in Gaza. The letter clearly indicated the modus operandi for resistance was to ensure that anyone trying to engage in mutual co-operation between Israel and the Palestinians was to be targeted for assassination.
The letter, heavily censored by the US military before its public release, was written in Gaza by Wafa Tawfiq al-Sayigh and suggests Mr Indyk should be "eliminated". The letter - headed "One Arab Nation, One Immortal Mission: Unity Liberty Socialism" - says Mr Indyk is an "Australian Jew" who when appointed as ambassador caused "pandemonium at the CIA, who accused him of working with the Israeli Mossad", a reference to Israel's secret service.
The letter says Mr Indyk, who was just finishing his second tour as ambassador, has good connections in the Gaza community and adds "he continues to visit them often, at all hours and without reservation".
"Abu al-Haytham Sa'id Ayyad has a suggestion of how to eliminate him, one that I will explain to you during the meeting," it says.
Mr Indyk, who was born in Britain but attended school and university in Australia, was unaware of the letter or the plot until contacted by The Weekend Australian. Shown a copy, he said the letter was written on the day he left Israel as ambassador, adding: "If they wanted to bump me off, they were a bit slow."
"Although it doesn't look like a serious assassination plot, it does remind us of the thuggish nature of Saddam Hussein's regime that such lowlifes in Gaza and Baghdad could be discussing assassinating a US ambassador
