October 26, 2004

UN Oil For Food Money Funded Terrorists

Notice when John Kerry talks about Iraq that he always says 'there was no al-Qaeda connection' but he never says 'there was no terrorist connections'?? Ever wonder why that is? Simple, because Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism and John Kerry knows it.

This MEMRI report, via Jane at Armies of Liberation, reveals that under the UN Oil For Food program Saddam Hussein gave Abu al-Abbas vouchers worth 11.5 million barrels of oil, of which Abbas sold nearly 1.5 million barrels of oil.

Who is Abu al-Abbas? Captured in Iraq during the war, he was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, a group listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department and the group responsible for the murder of an American citizen on the Achille Lauro cruise ship.

The MEMRI report continues:

Abu Al-Abbas was first mentioned in a “top secret and personal” letter (No.110/2/43 of 25 January 1993) from the Iraqi intelligence service to the secretary of the president of the republic. The letter listed the terrorist organizations that could be employed by Iraq to carry out sabotage and terrorism activities against American interests in the Arab world.
Now what was that again about using the UN to solve the Iraq problem instead of invading?

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 05:14 PM | |