FYI: Secret papers claim the feared assassin was hired to find links between Saddam and al-Qa'ida.

[Henk Elegeert]

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FYI:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/abu-nidal-notorious-palestinian-mercenary-was-a-us-spy-972812.html
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Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'

Secret papers claim the feared assassin was hired to find links
between Saddam and al-Qa'ida.
Robert Fisk reports
Saturday, 25 October 2008

Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin
Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait
when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the
Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Hitherto secret documents which are
now in the hands of The Independent – written by Saddam Hussein's
brutal security services for Saddam's eyes only – state that he had
been "colluding" with the Americans and, with the help of the
Egyptians and Kuwaitis, was trying to find evidence linking Saddam and
al-Qa'ida.
President George Bush was to use claims of a relationship with
al-Qa'ida as one of the reasons for his 2003 invasion, along with
Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. Western reports were
to dismiss Iraq's claim that Abu Nidal committed suicide in August
2002, suggesting that Saddam's own security services murdered him when
his presence became an embarrassment for them. The secret papers from
Iraq suggest that he did indeed kill himself after confessing to the
"treacherous crime of spying against this righteous country".

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