US investigators
discovered that Saddam Hussein, pictured in court, bankrolled the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through the UN
oil-for-food programme with the help of a Syrian company acting as a
front. Picture: Getty Images
Saddam bankrolled Palestinian terrorists
FRASER
NELSON POLITICAL EDITOR
Key points • Documents
show Saddam funded Palestinian terrorist group •
Syrian business front funded terrorists through UN oil-for-food
programme • 1991 tape reveals Saddam wanted to use
biological weapons against Israel
The PFLP, whose
history of terrorism dates back to the "black September" hijackings of
1970, was personally vetted by Saddam to receive oil vouchers worth Ł40
million.
The deal has been uncovered by US investigators, trawling
millions of pages of documents showing a network of diplomats bribed by
Saddam’s regimes, and political parties who qualified for backhanded
payments from Baghdad.
The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), which is still
working its way through 20,000 boxes of documents from Saddam’s Baath
party discovered only recently, found a list of pressure groups bankrolled
by Saddam.
Documents handed over to US authorities by
a former Iraqi oil minister only four months ago show that this was a
front for the PFLP - which was then embarked on a spate of car bombings
aimed at Israeli officials.
The Iraqi records show only one
six-month period - suggesting the payments could go on for much longer.
While some allocations to the likes of Russian political parties were not
cashed in, the PFLP oil deal was carried out in full.
Since its
inception after the Six-Day War of 1967, the PFLP has been dedicated to
violence - and for this reason split from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) when it accepted the peace process.
Its first
atrocity came in September 1970 when its members hijacked four aircraft
bound for the United States. All planes were blown up on the ground after
the passengers were evacuated. A hijacking at Lod airport in Israel two
years later left 24 dead.
While the PLO has been rehabilitated into
the political process, the PFLP has remained opposed to it. On Wednesday,
it issued a statement saying it had joined forces with Hamas, the main Palestinian terrorist group, in a machine gun attack on
a busload of Israeli soldiers.
Earlier last week, it launched a
rocket attack at an Israeli kibbutz.
Interviews from Iraqi
officials captured by US troops confirm that Saddam saw himself as the
potential "liberator" of Palestine. Taped conversations have been
uncovered from 1991 saying he wanted to deploy biological warfare on "the
Israeli cities - all of them".
Debriefings from Iraqi regime
members have also disclosed that "Saddam was conscious of Israel’s WMD
arsenal and saw Israel as a formidable challenge".
Three years
ago, Saddam gave a speech on Iraqi television saying "there can never be
stability, security of peace in the Middle East so long as there are
immigrant Jews in the land of Palestine".
His financial support
also extended to Abu Al-Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front
- another terrorist group - who was allocated 11.5 million barrels of oil.
The PLO is also named as a main beneficiary from Saddam’s scheme -
receiving four million barrels under its own name and five million barrels
for its "political bureau". The cash was again passed through Syria, a
known conduit for Palestinian terror
organisations.
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