Saddam Hussein as CIA agent in Iraq

[realFedUp]

I don't know why the "media" et al doesn't
tell Americans that Saddam was part of a CIA-authorized
six-man squad tasked with assassinating then
Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
As well, the silence on the US backing bin Laden
and others fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
This isn't new news...

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030410-070214-6557r

Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot
By Richard Sale
UPI Intelligence Correspondent

Published 4/10/2003 7:30 PM

U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.

United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report.

While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.

In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."

According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.

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[realFedUp]

1. no one interested in this?

I think it's important that Saddam Insane was
one of ours at one time in history but became
inconvenient in the last ten years or so to
the U.S. government and Saudi Arabia.

[RBHam]

2. This isn't an "American Media Truth"...

The Official Memory Hole does not give up it's secrets willingly.

This is only a story for those of us who are not afraid to "..handle the truth..."

You wouldn't believe how many so-called Liberals refuse to confront the facts.

Just like the Social Democrats in Germany during the 30's...

[realFedUp]

3. Yeah...you're right

We can't handle the truth if it isn't convenient.

[realFedUp]

4. I'm kicking

some butts in here.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

5. kick

thanks for posting.

[realFedUp]

6. I'm kicking for those who are reality based thinkers