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We've sat on this question for a few days to see if more was forthcoming.  Since little other information has emerged in nearly a week, we thought we'd ask the question at the risk of President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announcing more details the moment we "press send" on our email application.
 

Is Iraqi Aid to Families of Suicide Bombers Collusion?

Here is the situation as we know it today.  It has been leaked that U.S. operatives have uncovered financial trails that prove Saddam Hussein has been paying monies to the families of suicide bombers who are killed when the blow themselves ( usually along with many Israelis).

Is this the good and kind heart of Saddam Hussein or is it the finance of terrorist operations in Israel? Palestinian supporters claim the attacks are made by martyrs as part of the Islamic Jihad and Arafat's particular battle, the Intafada.  Non Palestinian supporters claim these are payments inducing young people to go to their death, placing a double onus on Saddam.

Is Saddam inducing both terrorism and suicide?  Certainly the amounts of money transferred don't seem to be significant to man who steals millions from his own people.  So it isn't a real sacrifice on his part.  What is a martyr worth?  An L.A. Times reprint of an Reuters story asked this question.  Is the price of a young child martyr a goat, or a goat and two chickens, or the equivalent of several thousand dollars in U.S. currency?

An interesting questions asked is, "are the suicide bombers told that someone back on earth will take care of their family for them?"  This would tend to lean us toward collusion.  The cash would be just another inducement by Hamas or the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade to get young people to commit these acts.  How much further can the religious subversion go?

If a martyr strapped on a nuclear weapon and blew it up in New York City wouldn't that be the same?  And if Saddam Hussein paid off the man or woman's family mean he is not only condoning, but rewarding that crime.  A small nuke in New York city would kill hundreds of thousands immediately and perhaps several more hundreds of thousands over the next two to three months.

So where do you draw the line that says a country is aiding, abetting, inducing, and rewarding terrorism.  What is "support for terrorism" anyway?

MILNET doesn't KNOW the answers, but the majority of our contributors agree paying a terrorist's family after he has committed a terrorist deed sure seems like a reward.  And if there was a promise before hand, then it is more than a reward, it is an inducement.  Both are unacceptable, the promise before hand makes the person or nation who promised an accomplice.

So to be perfectly clear we now make a set of definitions.

Definition:  Payments made to the family of a terrorist as a result of that person committing a terrorist act is a reward for that act and thus is support of terrorism.

Definition:  Promises of payment made to a terrorist or to his family if he or she commits an act of terrorism is an inducement to commit that act and therefore is both support of terrorism and make the person or nation who promised an accomplice.

Definition:  A person, group, or nation that supports or is an accomplices to Terrorism makes them a Terrorist.

With that in mind, we now call for the U.S. government to post its evidence of Iraq's complicity in both supporting terrorism in Israel as well as being an accomplice to each suicide attack where a financial link has been made.  Further we call on the U.S. to bring before the International Courts, a charge against Suddam Hussein as an accomplice to murder in Israel, one charge per count of suicide bomber or family who has been paid by the Iraqi government and for each other person killed by those suicide bombers.

With those charges in place, MILNET believes the U.S. has no choice but to enter Iraq and take custody of and bring to trial Saddam Hussein and those people in his government who made decisions or were directly knowledgeable of  payments to suicide bombers.
 

© Copyright, 2002, Michael Crawford, MILNET

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