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Claims (58)
Saddam Hussein paid
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“citing those pesky health concerns. And also that Klein's got booted out of ETSCO. It continued, Salam buys him out. Salam says that Egyptians kicked Klein out because Klein's ties to Wilson and hence to Libya. Klein's comes out of this wit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:31
George H.W. Bush lied_about
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Okay, let's go beyond that. You have the first Persian Gulf War. George H.W. Bush is saying that Saddam Hussein, who was our friend and ally and our lion in the Middle East, had invaded Kuwait and is removing babies from incubators and thro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 1:03:17
United States sold_arms_to
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“iraq in 1991 because they sold them to saddam hussein in the 1980s to use against iran and we have verification that's the case and so if you hit one of those locations in 1991 and you contaminate your own soldiers they would have every rea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 56:57
Ihsan Barbali worked_for
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“Barbati, B-A-R-B-O-U-T-I. He was Saddam Hussein's chief architect on many interesting projects. First, he owned an engineering company in Frankfurt, Germany. He had a $552 million contract to build airfields in Iraq. At about the same time,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 27:54
Saddam Hussein member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The NSA was also intercepting cable traffic from Mubarak's men, including Hussein Salam, who had gone right from a job in Egyptian intelligence into the Tursam-Itsko joint venture. But the direct link to Mubarak was his brother-in-law, whos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 26:07
Saddam Hussein member_of
TER SAM host_asserted
“Sadat had figured out that he was being set up and ordered an investigation, which means he had to go. When Camp David Accords were signed with President Carter's promise of billions of dollars in military aid, an Egyptian named Hussein Sal…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 19:21
Saddam Hussein paid
Department of Defense documented
“entered into the first plea bargain. Then, on July 21, 1983, Hussein Salam and Isko paid $3 million in settlements of all claims. Salam pled guilty to two counts of filing a false invoice with the Department of Defense. His plea bargain agr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 36:41
Saddam Hussein carried_out_attack
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait guest_asserted
“It was my first overseas assignment that dates like frozen in my head. And I was like, what the hell? It also, by the way, is the exact same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, which was arranged the week before when NATO realized that …”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 4:19
Saddam Hussein member_of
BCCI host_asserted
“the building where the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, had its Houston branch. Isn't that weird? The CIA front bank that Bush Sr. had an account at, along with Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and all of the drug kingpins, t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 50:25
April Glaspie ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“And the week before that, April Gillespie, and I didn't know it at the time this came out later, had basically told, they basically set Saddam Hussein up. That's the bottom line. That conflict over that oil, what happened was Kuwait was hor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:41:08
CIA attempted_coup_against
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“the CIA group together with the Kurds and the fundamentalist Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. For the moment, Alawi was excluded. Soon the rumor came out of London from an Iraqi exile that the CIA itself had given away th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 37:41
Saddam Hussein mined
Sir Sink Airport host_asserted
“had mined the entire area around the Sirsink Airport because this was going to be his personal airport to fly to his brand new mansion up on a mountain that was like 6,000 feet in the air that they were still constructing. And so the airpor…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:20:27
Saddam Hussein carried_out_attack
Kurdish people documented
“That's not at all what I saw. I was literally shocked. The hotel that was being built in, not Zaku, Dahuk, that entire city after the war started, because what the Saddam Hussein was notorious for doing is anytime he wanted to deflect atten…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:09:14
George H.W. Bush targeted_for_regime_change
Saddam Hussein documented
“In particular, they explained why George Bush moved so swiftly in 1990 to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to U.S. Saudi security in the Gulf. The threat was not just that the U.S. itself would lose oil from the Gulf, against whic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 51:03
Ahmad Chalabi spied_on
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“in the handling of the funds. Dang, where have I heard that before? But that's when Shalabi began feeding alarming claims of Saddam's alleged nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons to the Pentagon. So I wonder who, so the CIA was paying …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:00:59
Saddam Hussein covered_up
Ahmad Chalabi host_asserted
“at Erbil fled across the Turkish border. Iraqi troops seized Qalabi's offices with their computers and files. Baghdad flung 20,300 troops and 350 tanks into the Kurdish territory. Congressmen who had talked up the possibilities against Sadd…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 57:41
George H.W. Bush attempted_coup_against
Saddam Hussein documented
“of a way to get rid of Saddam Hussein. The guy that's on your payroll is accusing him now of having weapons of mass destruction. The DIA got involved under the new presidency of George W. Bush. Money for Shalabi continued in spite of DIA re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:01:30
CIA covered_up
Saddam Hussein documented
“But hey, let's all talk about waterboarding. Iraq led to George Tenet's demise. The CIA flawed claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and tried to sell it to everybody became so controversial that the agency ultimately w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 38:04
Donald Rumsfeld ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“Quote, the coalition will actively oppose Saddam Hussein's old enforcers. We will make clear that the coalition will eliminate the remnants of the Saddam's regime. Unquote. That same morning, according to Bremer, the undersecretary of defen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 21:32
Douglas Feith ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“Quote, the coalition will actively oppose Saddam Hussein's old enforcers. We will make clear that the coalition will eliminate the remnants of the Saddam's regime. Unquote. That same morning, according to Bremer, the undersecretary of defen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 21:32
Paul Wolfowitz ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“though from Brimmer's account, the demobilization decision appeared to have come from Wolfowitz as well. So you have Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz is basically his number two guy at the Pentagon. All civilians, all done against military advice. T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 22:01
CIA supplied_arms_to
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“and teeming with CIA people everywhere. The CIA arranged for the Iraqi regime to let Khomeini move to the holy city of Najjar, where he directed his campaign against the Shah. When Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq as vice president in 1…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 32:46
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is going to be buying both legitimate arms …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 35:12
Saddam Hussein started
Iran-Iraq War documented
“Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Ara…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:20:16
George H.W. Bush supplied_arms_to
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“and that were under U.S. license and also classified information to Iran. That, after all, had been part of the October surprise deal. What Casey didn't know was that Bush, who was a member of the Safari Club, and his private intelligence a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 48:13
Saddam Hussein member_of
TER SAM book_quoted
“of $499,934.63. At the same time, Clines arrived in Geneva and was given a release on the original Wilson loan when he finally paid him off. In January 1982, Clines officially severed his business relationship with Eatsco, selling his share…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 15:16
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
Saddam Hussein documented
“The book was called Manhunt by Peter Moss. They questioned Mr. Greenberg's plea bargain arrangement in a case involving $8 million in the inflated Egyptian-American transport, Eatsco. The company's principals included Hussein Salam, the bus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 1:28:25
Saddam Hussein ordered_assassination_of
Ahmed Khaled al-Rawi book_quoted
“Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave the order and Kamal made certain it was ca…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 30:12
Banco Nacional de Lavoro laundered_money_for
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“obstructing a northern district of georgia grand jury in 1990 when it was ready to indict the u.s branch of banca nacional del labaro for its role in laundering the agricultural credits for saddam hussein's illegal purchase of arms and keep…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 44:03
Ihsan Barbali worked_for
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“An Iraqi national named Ihsan Barbali, who worked covert operations logistically for CIA asset Saddam Hussein, was an architect involved in very interesting things. He owned an engineering company in Frankfurt, Germany, you know, NATO, that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 41:56
Saddam Hussein used
Kurdistan host_asserted
“from Iraq working for Saddam Hussein. That particular hydrogen cyanide is capable of penetrating gas masks. But make sure, I'm sorry, but make sure you put that paper mask on. This is the chemical used against the Kurds in Northern Iraq whe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 31:08
George H.W. Bush targeted_for_regime_change
Saddam Hussein documented
“They wanted to cut the Iraqi project. Suddenly, a fax campaign erupted with appeal letters appearing all over Washington, particularly on Capitol Hill. Congress restored much of the money for the coup plot. An incident in 93 when George H.W…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 39:01
Saddam Hussein covered_up
Abdullah al-Sawani host_asserted
“General Sawani saw failure all around and aborted his own effort. He took his family and fled to Syria. Robert Baer, ordered back to Washington, endured an FBI investigation for a potential violation on the ban on assassinations since the I…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 52:07
Saddam Hussein covered_up
Iraqi National Accord host_asserted
“In January, it reported capture of secure communication equipment. On June 26, the CIA Baghdad station in Jordan learned in a call from Iraqi security on the agency's own satellite phones that Saddam's henchmen knew all about this new proje…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 56:14
Saddam Hussein assassinated
Iraqi National Accord host_asserted
“with 80 accord members and dozens of Iraqi soldiers executed. In a TV extravaganza, six months later, the Iraqi government televised the confessions of a number of the Alawi captives, portraying the Iraqi National Accord as a CIA spy organi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 56:43
CIA recruited
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“He had been in touch with the CIA since the 1960s and was considered an up-and-coming asset…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 13:25
Saddam Hussein carried_out_attack
Iran book_quoted
“Saddam Hussein's decision to attack Iran on August 22nd, 1980…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 18:34
Joe Kelso attempted_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Saddam Hussein. The agency figured it would draw some interesting people out of the woodwork, Kelso said, but the mission ended in a disaster. A tough-talking 26-year-old was arrested by the U.S. Customs Service and charged with attempting …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 23:43
BCCI laundered_money_for
Saddam Hussein caller_asserted
“All of the leaders that were installed after governments were couped, in order to be paid their share of the take, had to set up an account at BCCI. Even George Bush Sr. had an account at BCCI. Saddam Hussein did. Noriega did. Every one of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 48:50
Saddam Hussein member_of
BCCI host_asserted
“It's called National Bank. And that caused a whole bunch of problems. So also at BCCI Bank is people like Saddam Hussein. Like I said, the Saudi royal family has accounts there. And you find two very important people. Aidan Shikogi.…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 54:38
Bill Clinton ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“virtually assured the project's continuation. Imagine that. So if I need an excuse, I just stage an attempted assassination and I can secure my funding. No problem. President Clinton struck the headquarters of Saddam's intelligence services…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 39:30
Kamal Adham funded
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“most of which he deferred until Iraq could better afford to pay him. Adem understood the level of talent available through Shackley's private network. In cooperation with the Israelis and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Adem led a strange profit-ma…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 26:29
Saddam Hussein laundered_money_for
BCCI host_asserted
“It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan Khashoggi used that bank almost exclusive…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 54:30
Saddam Hussein carried_out_attack
Kuwait host_asserted
“The invasion of Iraq into Kuwait was a false flag. Kuwait drilling had been going on for a long time. They'd been still in Iraqi oil. Saddam Hussein, which was a CIA asset himself, had been told to leave it alone, which he did because he wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:29:25
CIA installed
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“But, yeah, because I kept thinking, oh, the CIA is going to put good leadership in. Then I look at the leadership and I go, this is worse. So is it because they can control them, they think? Is that the point? They can control them? Yes. Th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 1:17:26
Saddam Hussein assassinated
Unnamed Iraqi defense minister (Saddam's groomed successor) host_asserted
“He murders him, takes him off the board.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 48:12
CIA installed
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Let's see. I'm trying to get to the good part. We went to war in 91 because Bush, then president, had an issue with Saddam Hussein. Ten years later, his son did basically the same thing. Osama was, like Saddam Hussein, created by the CIA, w…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 51:12
Paul Wolfowitz ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz admitted and adamantly disagreed. While Wolfowitz had demanded 250,000 troops for the invasion, he insisted that only 75,000 would be needed for the occupation. Key figures in the administration of George W.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 15:19
CIA installed
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Then the CIA overthrew the king and installed Saddam Hussein.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 47:25
Kamal Adham framed
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 18:34
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“Saddam Hussein was beginning to have outlived his usefulness to the CIA, and they were grooming his defense minister as his replacement during the same time…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:17
George H.W. Bush ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“At one point in time, we had Iraq, you know, Iraq and Iran fired shots and everything like that. Bush allowed Saddam Hussein, who he had a lot of business contacts with over the years, and his business partners did as well, allowed him to k…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 1:13:05
Ayatollah Khomeini ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“which the U.S. CIA set up to infiltrate Iraq and target Saddam Hussein and other regime members for assassination…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:17
Saddam Hussein attempted_assassination_of
George H.W. Bush caller_asserted
“Yeah, definitely would save the space on the team. She's rugged, Colonel. Go ahead, Jeff. You're banding a little bit. Go ahead, Jeff. Yes. So then I did have an old school question. Was it Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi that tried to a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 1:27:10
BCCI laundered_money_for
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“And of course, BCCI had bank accounts for George H.W. Bush again, Saddam Hussein, Aiden Khashoggi.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 41:45
Saddam Hussein assassinated
Adnan Khairallah host_asserted
“Well, Saddam Hussein caught wind of that and assassinated that guy.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:45
Saddam Hussein ordered_assassination_of
Jerome B. Borda book_quoted
“in 1993 murdered some 10 of his top military officers who had been plotting a coup to overthrow him. The Clinton White House with Bill Clinton was a Bush family crony and had apparently committed treachery in leaking CIA details to Saddam H…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 33:46
George H.W. Bush funded
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“because they showed secret private business partnerships in the 1980s between George Herbert Walker Bush and Saddam Hussein. They were basically partners and had shared bank accounts. During the Gulf War, Elder Bush wanted the American publ…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 33:14
Mentions (120)
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and closing his banks in the United States. One of the best examples occurred in 91, when the Justice Department should have been racing to build its case against the bank. That year, the U.S. was amassing an army in the Gulf, preparing to …
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basically authorized Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait. So this invasion and this desert storm happened at exactly the perfect time in order to put all of this stuff and just sweep it under the rug, which we know they do all the time. Yeah, a…
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CIA miscreation. Well, first of all, let's back up. After World War II, we set up a king in Iraq. They didn't have a king. They got a king now. Then the CIA overthrew the king and installed Saddam Hussein. When Saddam Hussein...…
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Because the CIA, if they're going to install a dictator, they always have dictator number two waiting in the wings. They've already learned because of Manuel Noriega and Penashe and all these other people that eventually they're installed. …
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The basically the guy that played the role of secretary of defense for Saddam Hussein to be his successor in case they had to off him, which they always do. So Saddam Hussein, unfortunately, though, outsmarts them this time. And he finds ou…
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So you have a CIA installed dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein, who, as you said, in the 70s, we're arming and we're also arming Iran via Israel. So then in the 80s, we basically enticed both Iraq and Iran to go to war with each other u…
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But if you will give me till tomorrow, I'll make a note and go back and find my research on that. Benjamin, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. Hi, everybody. Saddam Hussein, he's a perfect example.…
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of the type of proxies they use. Seems like one tactic they use is they'll take the smallest group in a nation that they want to subvert and they'll give them the support. They'll give them the power, the weapons and stuff like that. Saddam…
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How do you pass an audit when you don't even use a computer system, which at the time everybody used computer systems? And the only validation that you have of loans and collaterals is in a register, like a notebook. And that's literally th…
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we're working behind the scenes with a couple of other people to bring you guys some more really good shows. And we will have this Friday, the second show with Bella Liberté. So anyway, okay. Chapter 26. This chapter is talking about embrac…
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At the same time, Bush, with his old friend, Sheikh Kamal Adem, who is the chief of intel in Saudi Arabia, that was behind the BCCI bank as well, established the tilt towards Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. It was an arms merchant's wildest …
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that likes to take bones underneath the footstool so the other dog can't get them. That's what you hear in the background. For Kamal Adam, Saddam Hussein was the annoying neighbor who had one useful characteristic. He was a minority Sunni M…
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tribal and religious interest and basically kind of put those to the side so it was more of a secular state. And he did that through the use of force, which is the same thing that Saddam Assad did. He made sure everybody had to live in peac…
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And like Nasser, Saddam considered himself an Arab nationalist. Even though he was a hardliner on Israel, he demonstrated flexibility to the U.S. He had been in touch with the CIA since the 1960s and was considered an up-and-coming asset. S…
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They had Arab opposition to the Camp David Accords. The personal and religious divide between his secular government and the new regime in Tehran was huge. Saddam Hussein's opposition to Islamic fundamentalism had been visible early in his …
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And that's very important to understand that there was a majority Shia, not Sunni. And just like with all of the other French and English territories that we've talked about, how they oppressed the minority and put someone from the minority…
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His new effort was against the communist, the quote unquote communist. After he became president, he banned the Communist Party because, of course, you have to do that in order to get CIA support, even if there's no communist. And keep in m…
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Communists are people that just want workers' rights. It's not necessarily UNI's definition of a communist wanting to take over the government. It's people who just want a decent wage. The Soviet Union had supplied weapons for the Iraqi mil…
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and his relationship with Adem and Shackley to be suspicious. Within a few months of the new Islamic government, assumptions of power in Iran, cross-border attacks and attempts to export religious quote-unquote warriors into Iraq began. The…
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which the U.S. CIA set up to infiltrate Iraq and target Saddam Hussein and other regime members for assassination. Strategy of tension. Because let me just also say at this point, the CIA had already, Saddam Hussein was beginning to have ou…
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Well, Saddam Hussein caught wind of that and assassinated that guy. According to one of Kamal Adem's closest advisors, Adem advised Saddam that if he became a proxy warrior against the Iranian revolutionary government, he would have the loy…
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if he didn't do something about him. Meanwhile, Saddam had a long list of issues with his neighbors, specifically Kuwait. Saddam was convinced that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil, and they were. He asked Adem if Saudi Arabia would intervene …
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Take on Kuwait if he first took on Iran. So here's the Sunni guy over here, chief of intel, Adem. And he tells Saddam Hussein, the secular guy, who's keeping everybody in their box and attacking the Kurds, by the way, that Kuwait, part of t…
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So, hey, I'll help you combat your enemy, which is the Shia in Iran, if you'll help me combat my enemy in Kuwait. And Adem says he will, but he doesn't because Adem in Saudi Arabia.…
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is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing. They basically took Saddam Hussein out to the cle…
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As the Reagan-Bush team took over, Saddam Hussein offered two attractions. The first one was that he was the ideal hedge against Iran. The second was that billions of dollars in weapons sales meant there could be profits in the war for the …
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in the arms trade. Kayabalyan had been recruited out of Lebanon as well as Saddam Hussein's personal tailor. Kayabalyan was a big man who was not intimidated at all by Saddam. He conveyed sophistication to Saddam without making him uncomfor…
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CIA psychiatrists believe that Kayabalyan came to fill a father role for Saddam Hussein, who had a difficult, poor upbringing. After his father was murdered, his abusive uncle married his mother. Saddam had bravado and cunning as a young ma…
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The CIA wrote in the 1960s about Saddam Hussein, quote, was to have potential as a leader, rough edges had to be smoothed down, unquote. That's what a sophisticated tailor could do for you. No doubt they sent that guy too. When Saddam Husse…
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And Kyabalian was basically behind the whole thing. So Sarkis hit it off with Kyabalian the first night they met. Sarkis was a dazzling host. After several nights of expensive dinners and parties, Geneva's best, and exclusive club hopping, …
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He had the run of the country because he was going to help them try to win the war. What Sarkis found was a country that had started a war but had no way of finishing it. As he brought hunting rifles as gifts to the defense minister and oth…
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Aidan was more open and far less dour than all of the other men around Saddam Hussein. His power came from the fact that he was Saddam's cousin and his brother-in-law. But as soon as the Aidan started to trust Sarkis, he began to explain to…
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and his intelligence agency into and out of the United States for special training. We trained Saddam Hussein's top lieutenants. Sarkis says the truth is the only reason they came to Iraq was the money.…
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Then the Saudis sucked the U.S. into persuading Iraq to undertake a war in Iran. The Reagan-Bush people wanted to please the Saudi family. I soon found out the reason I was there was to make business deals with Bush's friends. And believe m…
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in its never-ending search for the next defense contract. But nothing made it rain quite like the Second Iraqi War, which SAIC fingerprints were all over. The reader will recall that the principal rationalization was weapons of mass destruc…
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And SAIC was at the forefront of these efforts. During 1998, David Kay, K-A-Y, a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He alleged that Saddam remains in power with weap…
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counterterrorism technology analysis. So the guy that's going to make a killing on war and more studies and more contracts is the one that starts the rumor that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. Over the next four years, Kay a…
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person participating in the charade was Wayne Downing, D-O-W-N-I-N-G. He's a retired general and also worked closely with Ahmad Chalabi, C-H-A-L-A-B-I. While sitting on the SAIC Board of Directors, Downing would insist that Iraqi exiles…
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Its acronym is OSI, not to be confused with the Office of Special Investigations, OSI in the Air Force. This one's completely separate. This entity was set up within the Department of Defense in October of 2001 with a mandate to engage in p…
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overthrow by Stephen Kinzer, K-I-N-Z-E-R. This is the one that basically takes us from the first regime change in Hawaii to Iraq. And it goes through from obviously the early 1900s, late 1800s to the modern day taking.…
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It's called National Bank. And that caused a whole bunch of problems. So also at BCCI Bank is people like Saddam Hussein. Like I said, the Saudi royal family has accounts there. And you find two very important people. Aidan Shikogi.…
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because they showed secret private business partnerships in the 1980s between George Herbert Walker Bush and Saddam Hussein. They were basically partners and had shared bank accounts. During the Gulf War, Elder Bush wanted the American publ…
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in 1993 murdered some 10 of his top military officers who had been plotting a coup to overthrow him. The Clinton White House with Bill Clinton was a Bush family crony and had apparently committed treachery in leaking CIA details to Saddam H…
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Let's see. I'm trying to get to the good part. We went to war in 91 because Bush, then president, had an issue with Saddam Hussein. Ten years later, his son did basically the same thing. Osama was, like Saddam Hussein, created by the CIA, w…
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We basically trained Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan as part of the whole Mujahideen creation to use them as terrorists in Chechnya and several other places. With the knowledge of the former CIA director, which was at one time, of course, Bu…
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The media immediately went to all of the other heads of state within the European theater and said, hey, do we have one of these? And of course, they all go, no, no, no, we don't know anything about that. But it just so happens that was the…
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Do you think that he might be someone that was like a Gaddafi or a possibility, someone that, well, he's not doing what the deep state wants him to do. So that's why there's issues and why they wanted to have him removed. But do you think t…
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During the late 1980s, the Middle East, and Iraq in particular, became a primary market for Early. The single biggest buyer of comet rice in the Middle East was the Iraqi grain board, the official buyer for Saddam Hussein's regime. When the…
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You are creating a virtual mining of the harbor, and these countries are not going to tolerate the gorilla in the room any longer. And they will be isolated the way they've isolated others. Yeah, and all the countries of Africa. I mean, Gad…
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Bill Clinton in there, and I'll just read some quick quotes from the trailer. Bill Clinton says, truth is, and these are obviously animated versions, but it is definitely these people, the characters. Bill Clinton says, truth is, your whole…
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International airports were so militarized. What the heck is going on? That was the exact same day that Saddam Hussein had been given State Department authority to invade Kuwait. And do you know what the convenient thing that all of the NAT…
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Yeah, definitely would save the space on the team. She's rugged, Colonel. Go ahead, Jeff. You're banding a little bit. Go ahead, Jeff. Yes. So then I did have an old school question. Was it Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi that tried to a…
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So going back to the Iran hostage scandal, first of all, second Reagan wins the election. Iran plays nice. We get our hostages back and America's feeling great again. We've got this USA, USA thing. Well, Iran's now the bad guys, the death t…
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At one point in time, we had Iraq, you know, Iraq and Iran fired shots and everything like that. Bush allowed Saddam Hussein, who he had a lot of business contacts with over the years, and his business partners did as well, allowed him to k…
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What happened in the lead up to that the week prior to it, about five days before that, the U.N. or the U.S. ambassador liaison to Iraq tells Saddam Hussein, we understand that you're right. Kuwait has been horizontally drilling into Iraqi …
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Get your oil fields back. So whatever you feel necessary to do, you just go ahead and do that. Know that you have our backing. So Saddam Hussein, within the next week, launches the attack on Kuwait and the Kuwaitis working with Bush are the…
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most of which he deferred until Iraq could better afford to pay him. Adem understood the level of talent available through Shackley's private network. In cooperation with the Israelis and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Adem led a strange profit-ma…
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It was my first overseas assignment that dates like frozen in my head. And I was like, what the hell? It also, by the way, is the exact same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, which was arranged the week before when NATO realized that …
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because it was the U.S. ambassador that told Saddam Hussein if he decided to invade Kuwait, they wouldn't do anything. So, again, having done all of this research and lived so much of this personally and been in places where this has happen…
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Their movement began to spread into places like Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, with individual campuses setting up chapters as a part of this. So the activism was shattered by the Gulf War that began in 1991. Most members considered Geor…
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I didn't know it was called Gladio at the time. They called it years of lead at the time. I didn't even know they were associated with each other because I didn't speak Italian. That is the exact same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait …
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The invasion of Iraq into Kuwait was a false flag. Kuwait drilling had been going on for a long time. They'd been still in Iraqi oil. Saddam Hussein, which was a CIA asset himself, had been told to leave it alone, which he did because he wa…
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But, yeah, because I kept thinking, oh, the CIA is going to put good leadership in. Then I look at the leadership and I go, this is worse. So is it because they can control them, they think? Is that the point? They can control them? Yes. Th…
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Kelso said he was approached by a CIA agent who called himself Bill Chandler and asked to gather information about Rupp's activities. Rupp was selling arms to the Argentines during the Great Britain-Faulkland Islands War, and CIA wanted to …
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Is that something I mean, that's just a pattern that I'm looking at. Is that that's a pattern we talked about for three years. OK, so even write down some Milosevic. Right. Down to him. Yeah. And then the rest of them. So it's like I unders…
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In particular, they explained why George Bush moved so swiftly in 1990 to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to U.S. Saudi security in the Gulf. The threat was not just that the U.S. itself would lose oil from the Gulf, against whic…
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would become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf, directly controlling 20% of OPEC production and 25% of the world oil reserve. The U.S.-Saudi deals also increased U.S. dependence on oil and drug-funded Arabian assets, such as BCCI.…
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So we create wars to divert attention from here to over here. You know, almost like the Iraq war, when Operation Gladio was getting exposed, the CIA tells Saddam Hussein, as well as the State Department, that they're fine to invade the same…
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Okay, let's go beyond that. You have the first Persian Gulf War. George H.W. Bush is saying that Saddam Hussein, who was our friend and ally and our lion in the Middle East, had invaded Kuwait and is removing babies from incubators and thro…
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Killing all these people and it's a horrible massacres. He's worth George HW Bush as a matter of fact an announcement said He's much worse than Hitler. We have to take immediate action against him Well, guess what? There were no dead babies…
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Saddam Hussein, who was called the lion of the lion of the Mideast by U.S. forces during the Iran-Iraq war. Yeah, he was totally installed by the CIA. Suddenly he becomes, we have to topple him from power because he's slaughtering babies an…
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the building where the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, had its Houston branch. Isn't that weird? The CIA front bank that Bush Sr. had an account at, along with Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and all of the drug kingpins, t…
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And the week before that, April Gillespie, and I didn't know it at the time this came out later, had basically told, they basically set Saddam Hussein up. That's the bottom line. That conflict over that oil, what happened was Kuwait was hor…
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and pumping it as if it was Kuwaiti oil. And it had been a long standing feud between the two. And so he told Saddam Hussein, if he went into Kuwait to basically take back their oil, that the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with that. And then…
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and teeming with CIA people everywhere. The CIA arranged for the Iraqi regime to let Khomeini move to the holy city of Najjar, where he directed his campaign against the Shah. When Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq as vice president in 1…
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And the people in Iran were outraged. Again, strategy of tension. According to Sarkis Solhanilian, who became Saddam's key arms dealer. All right, so SR-71, you might want to repost that. S-O-D-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. That Sarkis guy. Because we t…
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And Khomeini presented a threat to Saddam's secular government. And so Saddam was receptive to the Shah's request that his guest might be happier outside of the country. In October 1978, which is later that year, Khomeini moved from, so the…
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And they're always grooming the next iteration of leaders in all of these countries. We found out in one of the stories that Saddam Hussein, once he becomes president of Iraq, had one of his closest allies was his defense minister. Unbeknow…
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to replace Saddam Hussein if he should get out of line. Well, one of Saddam Hussein's agents found out about that and provided him with some documents. And Saddam Hussein had the defense minister assassinated for plotting behind his back. S…
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on September 22nd. This was May 1st. On April 1st, so this meeting happens on May 1st, the month before an Iranian had attempted to assassinate two of Saddam Hussein's closest loyalists. The tension between the two nations rose as more acts…
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Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…
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Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Ara…
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to fly over Baghdad to assess the attack damage. The KH-11 sensors for that satellite captured significant destruction. However, there were no signs of radioactivity in the wreckage. If this had been a functioning reactor, there would be to…
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and that were under U.S. license and also classified information to Iran. That, after all, had been part of the October surprise deal. What Casey didn't know was that Bush, who was a member of the Safari Club, and his private intelligence a…
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Sadat had figured out that he was being set up and ordered an investigation, which means he had to go. When Camp David Accords were signed with President Carter's promise of billions of dollars in military aid, an Egyptian named Hussein Sal…
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the company that Egypt designated as the sole shipping agency for all military hardware coming from the United States. When Salam, S-A-L-E-M, went to see von Marburg at the Pentagon to get his company accredited as a shipping agent, von Mar…
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Von Marbog was close to Egyptian's military attaché in Washington, a Major General Abu Ghazala, G-H-A-Z-A-L-A, as well as Mubarak. Through Ghazala, Von Marbog suggested to Salaam that Tom Klein would be an acceptable American partner in his…
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Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eats Go with Tursam controlling the 51%. In 1981, Sadat's staff undertook an audit of the Tursam Eats Go shipping invoices and discovered a serious overcharge and misuse…
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The NSA was also intercepting cable traffic from Mubarak's men, including Hussein Salam, who had gone right from a job in Egyptian intelligence into the Tursam-Itsko joint venture. But the direct link to Mubarak was his brother-in-law, whos…
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on July 29, 1981, detailing a briefing that he and Mr. Salam had, who was an Egyptian national with contacts to their minister of defense. Von Marbog left out the fact that Salam was the business partner of Klein's in Itzko, and that Klein'…
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notified General Richard Secord that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Tapp wrote Secord, the investigation involved Itzko von Marbog, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Hussein Salam, and officials in the United Arab Republic and em…
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citing those pesky health concerns. And also that Klein's got booted out of ETSCO. It continued, Salam buys him out. Salam says that Egyptians kicked Klein out because Klein's ties to Wilson and hence to Libya. Klein's comes out of this wit…
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entered into the first plea bargain. Then, on July 21, 1983, Hussein Salam and Isko paid $3 million in settlements of all claims. Salam pled guilty to two counts of filing a false invoice with the Department of Defense. His plea bargain agr…
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The book was called Manhunt by Peter Moss. They questioned Mr. Greenberg's plea bargain arrangement in a case involving $8 million in the inflated Egyptian-American transport, Eatsco. The company's principals included Hussein Salam, the bus…
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I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. Bull was trying to sell Kamal on a scheme…
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and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was pressing Sarkis for his commission. Sar…
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Sarkis understood that U.S. authorities did not want to be publicly associated with the murderous regime. Some of Hassan Kamal's cleanup operations for Saddam had Kerry's CIA staff concerned. Shortly after Saddam's predecessor, President Al…
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The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald…
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which involves production of military uniforms, will be a successful and long-lasting one. I can assure you that Colonel Brennan and former Attorney General John Mitchell will be responsible and constructive in working with your representat…
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and had begun working directly with the Bush operation. That's Vice President Bush. But the CIA's main hope for the change in Iraq was not Kamal, but Kraywalla. The popular defense minister, King Jordan, had kept in constant contact with Kr…
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Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave the order and Kamal made certain it was ca…
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Unfortunately for the Iraqis, the Bush administration began to play games. For the Battle of Al-Fah in southern Iraq, the CIA gave the Iraqis old satellite images, which caused them to place their forces in the wrong place. The losses were …
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about all of the secret relationships that they had with the Iraqis. Ted Koppel's nightline had formed a special unit called Project X to examine Bush's role in Iraq. Bush's National Security Council, in turn, formed a special task force to…
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For Sarkis, his conversations with the media about Iraq and George H.W.'s role in building up Saddam Hussein and his inflammatory interviews concerning Bush's involvement with the narcotic trafficking of Manuel Noriega grew Washington's wra…
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Meanwhile, in Washington, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who was in charge of the House Banking Committee, was learning more details about the Bush White House attempts to cover the tracks in Iraq. National Security Council documents show that…
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It was a sign to cover up embarrassing and potential illegal activities of everybody in the U.S.-Iraq relationship, except, of course, Sarkis. Gonzalez exposed instances in 1990 and 1991 when the Bush Commerce Department altered records in …
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It's great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I was just listening and it's funny when you were talking about Rumsfeld going out over there and meeting with Saddam and commenting that he's anti-communist and then all that story about the uni…
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But after the fall of the peacock throne in Iran, religious divisions surfaced within the royal family, contributing to a divided Saudi foreign policy. On one hand, the Saudis supported a secular Saddam Hussein against Iran. And with the ot…
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conduct operations. And it says Bush had survived the Iran-Contra scandal to win the election, but the BCCI banking network was coming unglued. Complicating that problem was the savings and loan crisis in the U.S., which was engulfing busin…
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They're teaching them how to do terror tactics and all kinds of stuff because they want to co-opt them because they don't want to lose their drug staging place no matter who wins. Because they've realized at this point that as long as you j…
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That's not at all what I saw. I was literally shocked. The hotel that was being built in, not Zaku, Dahuk, that entire city after the war started, because what the Saddam Hussein was notorious for doing is anytime he wanted to deflect atten…
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reestablish security in Northern Iraq so we could get the Kurdish people back out of Turkey because they were not safe there. And that was the mission of Operation Provide Comfort was to get those people back out of the mountains in Souther…
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British documents have John Foster Dulles on record from a year earlier speculating that the Mossadegh example might be the way to handle the Iraq situation. Six months later, there was an attempted assassination of the Iraqi leader, Abdul …
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a participant in the coup that was against Abdul Karim Qasim. This is how you get the connection of Saddam Hussein to the CIA. Some also go much further. They actually say that Saddam Hussein was on the payroll of the CIA.…
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More conspiratorial views hold that Saddam Hussein took payments from an Egyptian attache and his CIA contact, which was an Iraqi dentist. And that would have paralleled what was done in Egypt. Unlike the 58 coup, which took the CIA by surp…
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and only returned years later. It was reported that it would only be in Egypt that Saddam Hussein got into contact with the CIA. But again, there's conflicting stories. Iraqi exiles in Beirut bragged of their CIA connections that were invol…
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We came to power on the CIA train, meeting Saddam Hussein. Miles Copeland would later say, I spent most of my time helping Kermit Roosevelt to pick up the pieces after collisions with Egypt and other Middle Eastern governments caused by Sec…
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basically stated the degree to which Saddam Hussein part of the rocket, using the analogy of different stages of a rocket launch, was built into the Qasim government, right? The 1958 change is the Qasim government. And the interesting thing…
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for an audience that was being activated. And at least they could hear that argument of, as in, we don't want to be like England or France. And you see that manipulated in Suez Canal crisis. But anyway, the short version is, I think, that j…
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Every single one of those countries, and you read every single time, we did it because of Castro. We did it because of Castro. You're like, damn, that's awful convenient that you had a Castro. So, and we do know that the CIA helped, and thi…