-Caveat Lector- Is Saddam On CIA Payroll? Now Is The Time For A Proper Investigation
By: John LeBoutillier From 9/11 to the Anthrax Letters to a potential new war with Iraq, there is �curious� behavior when it comes to Saddam Hussein. Let us look at a few unanswered questions: 1) Is the FBI trying to �smoke out� Dr. Steven Hatfill by leaking detrimental information to the news media? Clearly, after ten months, the FBI is desperate to make some progress on the Anthrax attacks of last fall. And, for some reason, they refuse to consider Iraq as a potential suspect/instigator in these attacks. The Star and the National Enquirer � the first targets of anthrax letters � had had preliminary contact with Baghdad and suspected that the tainted letters actually came from Iraqi agents. Plus, lead hijacker Mohammed Atta showed up at a Florida pharmacy with a strange �skin condition� on his hands and was treated by the pharmacist. This came on the heels of Atta and his fellow soon-to-be-hijackers twice visiting a crop-dusting airfield nearby and asking numerous questions about the efficacy of flying those specialized planes, how much they could carry, how low etc. Could Atta�s skin condition have been from handling Anthrax spores? Could Atta - just before setting off for Maine, Boston and the World Trade Center � been the man who mailed the first �tainted� letters to the National Enquirer? This crop-dusting airfield and the pharmacy were both within 15 miles of the headquarters of the National Enquirer. How coincidental is that? Indeed, could Atta all along have been an Iraqi agent � more than a mere disciple of Osama bin Laden? Meanwhile, the FBI has been systematically trashing Dr. Hatfill and his girlfriend through orchestrated leaks about the bloodhounds searching their residences. Denying any improper investigative techniques, the FBI merely claims Hatfill is a �person of interest� to them. What a new term that is! A �person of interest.� Yet they show very little �interest� in the truth about Mohammed Atta�s Prague visit with a senior Iraqi spy just 5 months before the 9/11 attacks. Why does part of the Bush Administration seem hell-bent not to implicate Iraq in 9/11? 2) Is � or was � Saddam Hussein on the CIA payroll? And does this explain the back-and-forth, the resistance � and the leaks � all designed to prevent a war with Iraq? Twenty years ago we were coming out of the Hostage Situation in Iran. When the Iran-Iraq War broke out, we were officially neutral. But everyone �knew� that the Reagan Administration � and CIA Director Bill Casey � favored Saddam Hussein�s Iraq. We were buddy-buddy with Saddam in those days; we hated the Ayatollah and what he had done to our once-staunch ally, Iran. In 1984 President Reagan dispatched a Mid-East Special Envoy to meet with Saddam � Donald Rumsfeld. Within weeks we normalized relations with Saddam � despite his well-publicized use of lethal gas on Iranian soldiers and civilians. Could it be that at this time the CIA �used� or �hired� Saddam � just as for decades the CIA paid other leaders such as Jordan�s King Hussein, The Shah and Manuel Noriega? And could it be that the CIA � or some other US Government entity � is protecting Saddam? How else to explain the 1991 refusal to finish Saddam off at the end of the Gulf War? How else to explain the refusal now to recognize Saddam�s potential role in 9/11? How else to explain the flurry of leaks each week to �counter� new war plans against Iraq? It sure seems like someone � or some agency � inside the United States Government is out to protect Saddam Hussein�s Iraq � while the rest of the government, including President Bush, talks of getting rid of him and his regime. Or, is it possible that Saddam � from his years of secret dealings with the CIA � is now somehow blackmailing the CIA to protect him? Yes, all this sounds �wild.� But so, too, does a plot to simultaneously hijack four jets at 8 AM and dive-bomb them into four huge buildings in New York and Washington, DC. We need a proper investigation of our own government�s secret dealings and arrangements with Iraq. From that may come the answers to these so far unanswered questions. John LeBoutillier is a former U.S. Congressman and a nationally recognized political commentator. He has been a frequent guest on many national talk show programs and is author of the book Harvard Hates America. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. John LeBoutillier can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] He keeps an archive of his articles at: JohnLeBout.com Published in the August 20, 2002 issue of Ether Zone. 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