Has Iraq sponsored terrorism?

Question

Yes. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein provided bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups fighting the governments of neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as to Palestinian terror groups. The Bush administration said it believed Saddam could pass weapons of mass destruction to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network or other terrorists. In the first few weeks after Saddam's fall from power, though, convincing proof of an Iraq-al-Qaeda link remained lacking.

Answer 1

Yes they have.
Fifteen high-ranking al-Queda leaders have been killed in Iraq since we started the war, that ought to be indicator enough.

Answer 2

I spent time in the Middle East and I also know quite a bit about Arabian Cultural alliances. What you're saying is not true but other people have tried to make a case on what you're getting at. Nothing gets done on the Arabian Peninsula, without the King of Saudi Arabia blessing. Saddam getting removed from power was not solely a George Bush thing even though the press would want you to think it. The facts are the King of Saudi Arabian needed Saddam out to preserve OPEC cartel standing. They didn’t need a major producer of oil not following OPEC production restraints. The removal of Saddam plan was a collaborative plan between Riyadh and Washington. Prior to the US invasion, Osama met with the King of Saudi Arabia. Osama pleaded with the King to not allow the "Infidels" the US on to the Arabian Land. Osama offered Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan to remove Saddam in more of an internal way as an option. The King opted for US led forces. This meeting was documented in many cases even by Osama himself. They were not complete allies, but in Arabian countries allies change shape and form all the time due to changes in circumstances. Friends today...are enemies tomorrow.

Answer 3

Why you guys don’t want to be realistic? It was the Americans and Europeans who provide support to Saddam to attack Iran, and it was again these government that provided technology of WMD to Saddam regime.

And for Osama Bin Ladan, it was the US government which developed identity of Osama in the war against former soviets, but luckily after collapse of the soviets union, Osama got the feeling of sympathy with suffering Palestinians, Chechens, Kashmiris, and many other suffering from the hands of America and Israel around the globe.

Answer 4

Right.

I guess it was the liberal media that kept any evidence of any of that from being mentioned anywhere.

I'm sure the Bush administration "believed" Saddam could pass a weapon of mass destruction they didn't have to Osama Bin Laden, who Saddam hated and had no associations with. I believe in the Easter Bunny. That doesn't make him real.

Osama Bin Laden offered to remove Saddam from Kuwait before the U.S. moved in. Did you know that? I didn't think so...

This is a weak argument.

The FACT is there was never an Iraqi terrorist attack on any US interest or allies before we invaded Iraq. Period.

You guys can keep trying to dance around that question ALL you want but it doesn't change the facts. If there was any meaningful evidence of meaningful, significant terrorism coming out of Iraq BEFORE THE INVASION, we'd all have seen it by now. It's not there. Stop grasping at straws.

Beleive me, more money has come out of Saudi Arabia and gone to Palestinian suicide bombers in a week than came out of Iraq in 10 years and the people who FLEW THE F--KING PLANES INTO THE WTC came from Saudi Arabia--- you don't see us invading them.

Answer 5

yet that doesn't deal which includes your unique proposition. Do you recommend that Iran and Syria are sending terrorists simply by fact the U. S. is in Afghanistan below a UN mandate? And so terrorism is justified simply by fact Iran and Syria dont help the UN? of direction those international locations help terrorism yet not simply by US. They do with the purpose to realize dominance interior the area.

Answer 6

If you actually think Osama and Saddam cooperated with each other, you didn't keep up with the Osama videos, prior to the war.;

Answer 7

Saddam hated terrorist and if he found them a threat to his power they got the ax just like anyone else. He did give money to myr tars who died killing Israelis.

Answer 8

Yes, Iraq sponsored terrorism, in fact you answered that yourself. How closely Saddam I bin Laden cooperated, I don't know, but both are/were part of the worldwide Islamofascist terror network. Just different heads of the Hydra.

Answer 9

If Hussein provided such bases, etc., why didn't Turkey and Iran beg the U.S. to attack Iraq? Why was it Israel who gave the order?

Which PR firm is your favorite?

Answer 10

Yes. And Libya, Lebanon, Palestinians, Yemen, Somalia, and more than we know.