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The Saddam Hussein / Osama bin Laden Connection

Terrorism –Nuclear –Chemical – Biological

Excerpt One

There is a maze one must travel thorough in order to find the facts, which establish a coherent, connection between Saddam and Bin Laden. It is best to described it as a connection between the Al – Qaeda and the Iraqi Al-Istikhbarat / Al-Askariyya (Iraqi Military Intelligence). Specifically- Special Operations Group Unit 999 Branch, This "deep penetration" unit, responsible for domestic and international clandestine operations, and is headquartered at the army base at Salman Pak southeast of Baghdad..........
 

Excerpt Two

Saddam realized in order for his regime to survive he needed to reorganize and develop a body of trusted individuals. In addition he needed to expand his international capabilities in order to obtain the necessities needed to rebuild his military and weapons of mass destruction.

Hussein and elements within his Military Intelligence realized the only organization, which could quickly provide this was the Al – Qadea and its leader Bin Laden. With affiliation with Bin Laden Saddam could also get acceptance and support from other Moslem States and groups. This would be no easy task, for one of Bin Laden’s first religious visions was Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Bin laden tried to warn fellow Muslims and Kuwait officials but he was rebuffed and considered mentally unbalanced. After the Iraqi invasion he offered to bring his warrior out of Afghanistan to force Iraq out of Kuwait.

Early attempts in 1992 and 1994 to recruit Bin Laden in Sudan by Iraq ended in rebukes by Bin Laden because of religious ideology, his contempt for Saddam’s secular Baathist regime and his invasion of Kuwait..........
 

Excerpt Three

 

Vince Cannistraro, the CIA's former counter-terrorism chief, said Baghdad made an overture to Mr bin Laden in December 1998. Saddam was apparently so impressed by the bombings that year of the two US embassies in East Africa that he sent Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, Farouk Hijazi, to Afghanistan to meet Mr bin Laden. The CIA believed Mr Hijazi offered Mr bin Laden and al-Qa'ida, then being pursued by the Americans, a permanent refuge in Iraq but the offer was refused.

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