Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.Hat tip Charles. And as Charles points out, this might be more than a little germane to the "mysterious" death of Abu Nidal in Baghdad in 2002...
Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
But don't worry -- there's still no evidence! You can sleep easy at night. Safely bet your last dollar. First born. All of that. You betcha...
It's also true that Saddam never held a grudge against anyone. Absolutely not. Well not other than his assassination attempt against Bush 41. But surely that's irrelevant isn't it? (Soft crinkling sounds in the background ... Fade back to deep unconsciousness... )
UPDATE: And you need to read this too.
And now for the body slam while you're down on the mat:
But even if ailing, a veteran terrorist like Abu Nidal ought not to have needed to empty his magazine in order to end his life. If Iraqi security services helped him out, the question is why?Move along folks. Nothing to see here. Nothing at all. Just plug your nose and pretend that nothing has happened...
The official explanation could well be true. Saddam, like Nidal himself, does not require much evidence to take action against a suspected traitor.
But there is another plausible explanation. Nidal's specialty was airplane hijacking and sabotage. At least two Iraqi defectors have said Saddam maintained at Salman Pak, a military base 21 miles from Baghdad, a Boeing 707 on which "Islamicists" practiced hijackings.
Ziad Jarrah was at the controls when United Flight 93 crashed in Somerset County. He had come to Germany as a student in 1996, where his apartment was paid for by his great-uncle, Assam Omar Jarrah. Assam Jarrah has been identified by German intelligence as an operative for both the old East German secret police and the Abu Nidal organization. Assam disappeared two months before Sept. 11.
Could Saddam have been eliminating a piece in the chain of evidence linking him to the 9/11 attacks? Stay tuned.
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