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peragro · #62 03-11-2008, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by dculkin

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but it seems like a good place to mention the just-released study by the U.S. military finding that Saddam had no meaningful connection to al Qaeda: http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/03/exclusive-us-mi.html

I was particularly interested to see this part:

Unfortunately no link to the actual report. I'd rather read it and come to my own conclusions than have that done for me by ABC news.

This also in the same article:

The study does, however, show that Saddam Hussein did much to support terrorism in the Middle East and used terrorism "as a routine tool of state power." Saddam's government, for example, had a program for the "development, construction, certification and training for car bombs and suicide vests in 1999 and 2000." The U.S. military is still dealing with the fall-out from this particular program.

The report says Saddam's bureaucrats carefully recorded the regime's connections to Palestinian terrorists groups and its financial support for the families of suicide bombers

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Saddam did much to promote terrorism in the region, especially to help himself get richer and stay in power. In a sense he, and his country's research into new and innovative ways to kill civilians and thus incite terror were very much for sale to whomever had the money to buy.