Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Saddam's regime did what?
I wonder if I'm alone in wondering how this can be in the Australian press; while our American press reports differently...
I found this in an article by Geoff Ekkiot in "The Australian":
"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.
The documents are contained in a US Institute for Defence Analyses report released by the Pentagon, which says they provide 'strong evidence that links the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global terrorism'.
'In the period after the 1991 Gulf War, the regime of Saddam Hussein supported a complex and increasingly disparate mix of pan-Arab revolutionary causes and emerging pan-Islamic radical movements,' the report says."
