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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 207
Iraq
According to former intelligence operatives interviewed by UPI, Saddam Hussein was
part of six-man assassination team authorized by the CIA to assassinate Iraqi prime minister
General Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959. Qasim had successfully overthrown the monarchy in Iraq
in 1958. When he withdrew from the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact in 1959 and began buying Soviet
weapons and installing communists in his administration, the CIA viewed him as a problem.
The assassination attempt failed, Saddam only wounded Qasim and killed his driver. The
CIA helped Saddam escape, they provided training and housing for him at least temporarily.
Qasim was assassinated in 1963 by the Iraqi Baath Party. Roger Morris, a former National
Security Council staffer in the 1970s says the CIA was behind the assassination and that it was
authorized by President Kennedy.
Under the new Iraqi regime, known and suspected communists were hunted down by
Iraqi National Guardsmen who had been equipped with submachine guns by the CIA. The
suspected communists were jailed, interrogated and then executed. According to Adel Darwish,
author of Unholy Babylon and an expert on the Middle East,
Saddam was in charge of the
executions. Saddam became head of Iraqi Baath Party intelligence and in 1979 he became head
of Iraq.
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In 1972 Iran was having a border dispute with Iraq. The Shah asked the CIA to arm the
Kurds in Iraq. The Kurds were seeking their own state and trusted no one except the US. By
arming them, the US would potentially be creating a civil war. The Shah thought that the
resultant civil unrest would cause Iraq to withdraw troops from the border. The CIA complied
with the Shah's request; $16 million in “Soviet and Chinese small arms and rifles and millions of
rounds of ammunition” were supplied to the Kurds. The foreign weapons provided the CIA
plausible deniability.
An internal US government report, the Pike Report, stated the US position on the Kurds:
“Neither Iran nor ourselves wish to see the matter resolved one way or the other.” In 1975 the
Shah reached agreement and peaceful resolution with Iraq in their border dispute. Both the Shah
and the CIA immediately cut off their support to the Kurds. The following day Iraq launched a
major offensive against the Kurds. The Kurds desperately appealed to the CIA and Henry
Kissinger for aid. Not only did they not receive aid, they didn't even receive a response. The
Kurds forces were decimated within a month and several hundred of their leaders were executed
and 200,000 or more became refugees.
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The Kurdish uprising had also resulted in 60,000 Iraqi
military and civilian casualties.
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The Pike Commission concluded that the Kurds may have
reached a peaceful resolution with the government of Iraq if the US and the Shah had not
intervened and encouraged the armed insurrection. The report stated that the Kurds, at a
minimum, would have gained “a measure of autonomy while avoiding further bloodshed.
Instead, our clients [the Kurds] fought on, sustaining thousands of casualties and 200,000
refugees.”
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In 1979 the Shah of Iran was ousted under a rebellion headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
On Sept. 22, 1980 Saddam Invaded Iran. The official public US policy was that the US was
neutral but behind the scenes things were quite different. Numerous Journalist have uncovered
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