The missing link....

[Bong30]

Saddam's Philippines
Terror Connection
And other revelations from the Iraqi regime files.
by Stephen F. Hayes
03/27/2006, Volume 011, Issue 26

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http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...1/990ieqmb.asp


SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.

The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken. On March 16, the U.S. government posted on the web 9 documents captured in Iraq, as well as 28 al Qaeda documents that had been released in February. Earlier last week, Foreign Affairs magazine published a lengthy article based on a review of 700 Iraqi documents by analysts with the Institute for Defense Analysis and the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Plans for the release of many more documents have been announced. And if the contents of the recently released materials and other documents obtained by The Weekly Standard are any indication, the discussion of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq is about to get more interesting.


WE could get a picture of Saddam giving Bin laden a hand job, and the left still wont get it.

There is this thing called Jihad......

Bong30 Reviewed by Bong30 on 03-20-2006. The missing link.... Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection And other revelations from the Iraqi regime files. by Stephen F. Hayes 03/27/2006, Volume 011, Issue 26 Increase Font Size | Printer-Friendly | Email a Friend | Respond to this article Rating: 5

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if only we had that pix of gannon blowing gw....Stephen F. Hayes is a right wing hack, of course he would put out an favorable article----jihad for every1-----------

[Bong30]

Seams to me that one is trying to move forward, and one tring to move back.

Ill let you choose the two, and this article might help.


Hey maybe if some Islam leaders would stand up like this, the Jihad might end.

You can see that the Pope is extending the "OLIVE BRANCH".


Europe



The Times March 20, 2006


Vatican change of heart over 'barbaric' Crusades
From Richard Owen in Rome



THE Vatican has begun moves to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a conference at the weekend that portrays the Crusades as wars fought with the â??noble aimâ?� of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity.



The Crusades are seen by many Muslims as acts of violence that have underpinned Western aggression towards the Arab world ever since. Followers of Osama bin Laden claim to be taking part in a latter-day â??jihad against the Jews and Crusadersâ?�.

The late Pope John Paul II sought to achieve Muslim- Christian reconciliation by asking â??pardonâ?� for the Crusades during the 2000 Millennium celebrations. But John Paulâ??s apologies for the past â??errors of the Churchâ?� â?? including the Inquisition and anti-Semitism â?? irritated some Vatican conservatives. According to Vatican insiders, the dissenters included Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict reached out to Muslims and Jews after his election and called for dialogue. However, the Pope, who is due to visit Turkey in November, has in the past suggested that Turkeyâ??s Muslim culture is at variance with Europeâ??s Christian roots.

At the conference, held at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, Roberto De Mattei, an Italian historian, recalled that the Crusades were â??a response to the Muslim invasion of Christian lands and the Muslim devastation of the Holy Placesâ?�.