US seeks a tamer version of Saddam

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/01/1062268480981.html

A free Iraqi election could produce a hostile Islamic government.

Now that Islamic fundamentalists are emerging as the winners from the invasion of Iraq, the search is on for a new Saddam Hussein to keep them under control.

It won't be easy. After all, the US has promised to give Iraqis the chance to enjoy democracy at the same time as it is recruiting former members of Saddam's secret police.

With Bush badly needing to stop the killing of American soldiers, it was revealed last week that US authorities have begun hiring former members of Saddam's feared security service to track down who is behind the attacks. snip

According to UPI, the 22-year-old Saddam was one of the thugs hired with the CIA's blessing to assassinate the then Iraqi prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959. After the attempt was botched, Saddam was sent for further training in Beirut and Cairo.

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[kentuck]

1. I did not know this....

"According to UPI, the 22-year-old Saddam was one of the thugs hired with the CIA's blessing to assassinate the then Iraqi prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959. After the attempt was botched, Saddam was sent for further training in Beirut and Cairo."

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Has this been public knowledge?

[NNN0LHI]

2. Link to full article

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

Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot

<snip>But during this time Saddam was making frequent visits to the American Embassy where CIA specialists such as Miles Copeland and CIA station chief Jim Eichelberger were in residence and knew Saddam, former U.S. intelligence officials said.

Saddam's U.S. handlers even pushed Saddam to get his Egyptian handlers to raise his monthly allowance, a gesture not appreciated by Egyptian officials since they knew of Saddam's American connection, according to Darwish. His assertion was confirmed by former U.S. diplomat in Egypt at the time.

In February 1963 Qasim was killed in a Baath Party coup. Morris claimed recently that the CIA was behind the coup, which was sanctioned by President John F. Kennedy, but a former very senior CIA official strongly denied this.

"We were absolutely stunned. We had guys running around asking what the hell had happened," this official said.

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[IndianaGreen]

6. Yes, this has been public knowledge, including the CIA's role in coup

that put the Baathists in power in 1963.

We also created bin Laden when we backed Islamic fundamentalists in their war against the then-Marxist government of Afghanistan.

We create our own monsters!

[mmm]

3. Wanted: Saddam Lite

Looks like the US will be steppin' and fetchin' for a while
to come. The fact that the Dems cannot run Bush out of office
over this ratfuck speaks volumes about where this country
has gone. I hope the good things are not all in our past.

[Kbowe]

4. No matter what, Osama is the BIG winner in all of this...

US troops are out of Saudi Arabia and Saddam is toppled.

Thank Sharon, Wolfie, Perlie, Bushie, and Blairsy!!!

[birdman]

5. Aw you guys didn't really want to be liberated, did you?

How about a nice new strongman?