2 Evils Embrace:Saddam And Arafat

[Batman]

This post was posted pre-Fall of Iraq/Saddam: THOSE WERE THE DAYS.....WE THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER END......

From Washington Post:
Terrorism
Iraq has always supported Palestinian organizations that targeted Israelis and Westerners to advance the cause of replacing Israel with a Palestinian state, including Abu Nidal, mastermind of dozens of terrorist incidents in the 1970s. But when Hussein curbed such support in the 1980s, the U.S. removed Iraq from the State Department's list of terrorist nations.

Iraq provides payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Iraq was the only Arab-Muslim country not to condemn the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. U.S. intelligence agencies have found scant evidence that secular Iraq had provided help to Osama bin Laden's fundamentalist al Qaeda network but some U.S. officials say there is a pattern of mutual support.


2 EVILS EMBRACE: SADDAM AND ARAFAT

Photo Caption:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein receives Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in Sept. 1980.

[Donna]

Originally posted by Batman

2 EVILS EMBRACE: SADDAM AND ARAFAT

Photo Caption:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein receives Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in Sept. 1980. [/B]

Two words come to mind (other than "yuck"):

Breath...mint.

[Formula]

Get a room!

[cerulean]

Reminds me of this photo:

http://www.israelforum.com/board/sho...&threadid=1637

[Batman]

Originally posted by cerulean
Reminds me of this photo:

http://www.israelforum.com/board/sho...&threadid=1637

[Batman]

these guys are in the wrong business, they would be more successful in the hotel business....

[Batman]

Originally posted by Batman
From Washington Post:
Terrorism
Iraq has always supported Palestinian organizations that targeted Israelis and Westerners to advance the cause of replacing Israel with a Palestinian state, including Abu Nidal, mastermind of dozens of terrorist incidents in the 1970s. But when Hussein curbed such support in the 1980s, the U.S. removed Iraq from the State Department's list of terrorist nations.

Iraq provides payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Iraq was the only Arab-Muslim country not to condemn the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. U.S. intelligence agencies have found scant evidence that secular Iraq had provided help to Osama bin Laden's fundamentalist al Qaeda network but some U.S. officials say there is a pattern of mutual support.


2 EVILS EMBRACE: SADDAM AND ARAFAT

Photo Caption:
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein receives Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in Sept. 1980.

9 b'Av commemorates both the Babylonian and Roman destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem which resulted in the long Jewish people's exile from Israel.

The first Temple was the temple built by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C. on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem.

Nebuchadnasser, the king of Babylonia wass responsible for the destruction of the Temple. When ancient Israel was conquered by the armies of Babylonia serving under Nebuchadnezzar in 587-586 B.C., Solomon's temple, foremost symbol of Jewish religion and culture, was destroyed and the Jews exiled.


At this time, after the fall of Saddam about whom it is known that he MODELLED himself after Nebuchadnasser, even had a chair fashioned after the previous king,and dreamed of accomplishing a similar evil feat over Israel, this song came into my head, perhaps others who are in the picture (and some who are not but they know who they are) will follow:

"THOSE WERE THE DAYS ......., WE THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER END....."

[CrypticalPuzzle]

Here is another pic....

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/press.htm

....and the article is an interesting reading too.