U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report.
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."
According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.
Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official.
Washington watched in marked dismay as Qasim began to buy arms from the Soviet Union and put his own domestic communists into ministry positions of "real power," according to this official. The domestic instability of the country prompted CIA Director Allan Dulles to say publicly that Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world."
In the mid-1980s, Miles Copeland, a veteran CIA operative, told UPI the CIA had enjoyed "close ties" with Qasim's ruling Baath Party, just as it had close connections with the intelligence service of Egyptian leader Gamel Abd Nassar. In a recent public statement, Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s, confirmed this claim, saying that the CIA had chosen the authoritarian and anti-communist Baath Party "as its instrument."
According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim. According to this source, Saddam was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qasim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qasim's movements.
Adel Darwish, Middle East expert and author of "Unholy Babylon," said the move was done "with full knowledge of the CIA," and that Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. U.S. officials separately confirmed Darwish's account.
Darwish said that Saddam's paymaster was Capt. Abdel Maquid Farid, the assistant military attache at the Egyptian Embassy who paid for the apartment from his own personal account. Three former senior U.S. officials have confirmed that this is accurate.
The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched. Accounts differ. One former CIA official said that the 22-year-old Saddam lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qasim's driver and only wounding Qasim in the shoulder and arm. Darwish told UPI that one of the assassins had bullets that did not fit his gun and that another had a hand grenade that got stuck in the lining of his coat.
"It bordered on farce," a former senior U.S. intelligence official said. But Qasim, hiding on the floor of his car, escaped death, and Saddam, whose calf had been grazed by a fellow would-be assassin, escaped to Tikrit, thanks to CIA and Egyptian intelligence agents, several U.S. government officia
(00:37:33) erik: i hope the government is listening in on me, so i can look liek a murdered and psychopath and then they will all fear my wrath when i eat their favces
(00:37:48) erik: ye
(00:37:48) erik: s
(00:37:51) erik: and you sleep too
(00:38:02) me: i slept from 6:15 to 11:15 already
(00:38:04) erik: only on beautifuly women though
(00:38:23) erik: flying horses?
(00:38:31) erik: why?
(00:38:40) me: elephant
(00:38:42) erik: you should not do that
(00:38:47) erik: it's too enormous
(00:38:50) me: why not?
(00:38:52) erik: and rumbly
(00:38:59) me: but i'm enormous and rumbly
(00:39:03) erik: it's mind is also too fat
(00:39:12) me: (as the beautifuly women will tell you)
(00:39:12) erik: it likes anus
(00:39:32) me: you like anus
(00:39:34) erik: you dont want a Nelapants that like anus
(00:39:45) me: man anus, or "manus" that is
(00:39:52) erik: Nelapants like anus like pockets
(00:40:01) me: do elephants wear elepants?
(00:40:12) erik: they were horns fucker
(00:40:15) erik: you idiot
(00:40:17) me: lol
(00:40:26) erik: wear*(
(00:40:28) erik: damnit
(00:40:30) erik: you fucker
(00:40:33) erik: you made me say tha
(00:40:42) erik: tdont EVEN try to intiate untertaikeenge
(00:40:51) me: its too late
(00:40:56) erik: i will so fuckin kill you in the face
(00:41:03) me: the process will be completed just about
(00:41:05) me: .
(00:41:07) me: now
(00:41:10) erik: why?
(00:41:13) erik: fuck shit
(00:41:14) erik: no
(00:41:16) erik: bitch
(00:41:20) erik: i like pant
(00:41:21) erik: s
(00:41:29) me: I MADE YOU SAY THAT!
(00:41:33) erik: you anus
(00:41:45) erik: why do like nelapants
(00:41:58) erik: nelapants the wRapper
(00:42:32) erik: im cAnDee Baur the wRapPER
(00:42:56) erik: of fuck
(00:43:03) erik: of my head
(00:43:10) erik: of my head, it contains pain
(00:43:17) erik: of pain contains head
(00:43:37) erik: of aching contains giant cytosplasmic elephants
(00:43:49) erik: whoa
(00:43:54) erik: that'd be AWESOME
Umm, ok, are we talking about y = log(x) base 10 here? Because umm, input of of 1 for x in that function gives 0, of 10, 1, of 100, 2, of 1000, 3, of 10,000 4. Notice that for each increase of 1 for y we need a much larger increase for our input. In other words, it is increasing more and more slowly.
Inverse log would be y = 10^x, which we normally refer to as an exponential function.....
Do you mean exponentially? Logarithmically would imply that it was increasing more and more slowly. Or did I just completely miss your point and get hit with the clueless stick?
I don't have an iPod, and I don't see why you would want to use one with that bloated piece of shit instead of iTunes, which is beautiful, but I did notice after I installed iTunes there was some new "iPod Service" installed in the services tab under msconfig. I suggest disabling it if anyone has problems.
The offbeat news section is real not a parody, so I don't see the connection. Why does the fact that CNN has more articles like this one make you incredulous about it being posted?
Parents sue school over wireless network
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) --A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children.
According to the complaint, filed in Illinois state court, parents of five children assert that a growing body of evidence outlines "serious health risks that exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency radiation poses to human beings, particularly children."
The Oak Park Elementary School District set up a wireless network to connect its schools to one another in 1995, long before such networks became wildly popular. A spokeswoman for the district, Gail Crantz, said it complies with all government regulations for wireless networks.
Today, the 5,000 students in the district have access to carts of laptop computers to do research on the Internet from their desks, said Steve Chowanski, director of information services for the district.
An estimated 30 million WiFi networks have been installed worldwide, according to the WiFi Alliance, which certifies wireless products. Brian Grimm, a spokesman for the group, said he is unaware of other similar suits targeting WiFi networks.
According to Chowanski, a small group of parents had complained about the risks of installing wireless networks in the school. In response, the school board said it would continue to monitor research into the safety of the networks but reaffirmed its plan to use WiFi.
"We are not going to do anything different," Chowanski said. "This is the wave of the future."
The complaint by the parents was filed on September 26 in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois. A hearing before Judge Nancy Arnold is scheduled for February.
The parents allege that the district failed to examine the health impact that wireless local area networks pose, especially for growing children. They are seeking class action status for their suit, which seeks to halt the use of wireless networks.
Calls to the parents and their lawyers were not immediately returned.
The WiFi Alliance says WiFi networks are safe. The radio waves in a WiFi network use the same frequency as wireless home phones, and have one-thirtieth the power of, cordless phones, Grimm, the spokesman for the group, said.
Not to be a pedantic bastard, but you should have written "If I were a camwhore, I would be loved." You can read about the English subjunctive mood here.
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U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report.
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."
According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.
Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official.
Washington watched in marked dismay as Qasim began to buy arms from the Soviet Union and put his own domestic communists into ministry positions of "real power," according to this official. The domestic instability of the country prompted CIA Director Allan Dulles to say publicly that Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world."
In the mid-1980s, Miles Copeland, a veteran CIA operative, told UPI the CIA had enjoyed "close ties" with Qasim's ruling Baath Party, just as it had close connections with the intelligence service of Egyptian leader Gamel Abd Nassar. In a recent public statement, Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s, confirmed this claim, saying that the CIA had chosen the authoritarian and anti-communist Baath Party "as its instrument."
According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim. According to this source, Saddam was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qasim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qasim's movements.
Adel Darwish, Middle East expert and author of "Unholy Babylon," said the move was done "with full knowledge of the CIA," and that Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. U.S. officials separately confirmed Darwish's account.
Darwish said that Saddam's paymaster was Capt. Abdel Maquid Farid, the assistant military attache at the Egyptian Embassy who paid for the apartment from his own personal account. Three former senior U.S. officials have confirmed that this is accurate.
The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched. Accounts differ. One former CIA official said that the 22-year-old Saddam lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qasim's driver and only wounding Qasim in the shoulder and arm. Darwish told UPI that one of the assassins had bullets that did not fit his gun and that another had a hand grenade that got stuck in the lining of his coat.
"It bordered on farce," a former senior U.S. intelligence official said. But Qasim, hiding on the floor of his car, escaped death, and Saddam, whose calf had been grazed by a fellow would-be assassin, escaped to Tikrit, thanks to CIA and Egyptian intelligence agents, several U.S. government officia
(00:37:33) erik: i hope the government is listening in on me, so i can look liek a murdered and psychopath and then they will all fear my wrath when i eat their favces (00:37:48) erik: ye (00:37:48) erik: s (00:37:51) erik: and you sleep too (00:38:02) me: i slept from 6:15 to 11:15 already (00:38:04) erik: only on beautifuly women though (00:38:23) erik: flying horses? (00:38:31) erik: why? (00:38:40) me: elephant (00:38:42) erik: you should not do that (00:38:47) erik: it's too enormous (00:38:50) me: why not? (00:38:52) erik: and rumbly (00:38:59) me: but i'm enormous and rumbly (00:39:03) erik: it's mind is also too fat (00:39:12) me: (as the beautifuly women will tell you) (00:39:12) erik: it likes anus (00:39:32) me: you like anus (00:39:34) erik: you dont want a Nelapants that like anus (00:39:45) me: man anus, or "manus" that is (00:39:52) erik: Nelapants like anus like pockets (00:40:01) me: do elephants wear elepants? (00:40:12) erik: they were horns fucker (00:40:15) erik: you idiot (00:40:17) me: lol (00:40:26) erik: wear*( (00:40:28) erik: damnit (00:40:30) erik: you fucker (00:40:33) erik: you made me say tha (00:40:42) erik: tdont EVEN try to intiate untertaikeenge (00:40:51) me: its too late (00:40:56) erik: i will so fuckin kill you in the face (00:41:03) me: the process will be completed just about (00:41:05) me: . (00:41:07) me: now (00:41:10) erik: why? (00:41:13) erik: fuck shit (00:41:14) erik: no (00:41:16) erik: bitch (00:41:20) erik: i like pant (00:41:21) erik: s (00:41:29) me: I MADE YOU SAY THAT! (00:41:33) erik: you anus (00:41:45) erik: why do like nelapants (00:41:58) erik: nelapants the wRapper (00:42:32) erik: im cAnDee Baur the wRapPER (00:42:56) erik: of fuck (00:43:03) erik: of my head (00:43:10) erik: of my head, it contains pain (00:43:17) erik: of pain contains head (00:43:37) erik: of aching contains giant cytosplasmic elephants (00:43:49) erik: whoa (00:43:54) erik: that'd be AWESOME
Umm, ok, are we talking about y = log(x) base 10 here? Because umm, input of of 1 for x in that function gives 0, of 10, 1, of 100, 2, of 1000, 3, of 10,000 4. Notice that for each increase of 1 for y we need a much larger increase for our input. In other words, it is increasing more and more slowly. Inverse log would be y = 10^x, which we normally refer to as an exponential function.....
Do you mean exponentially? Logarithmically would imply that it was increasing more and more slowly. Or did I just completely miss your point and get hit with the clueless stick?
Yeah I scored 4 out of 5 on the antidrug quiz too.
I think the Iraqis would rather live under no rule of terror, neither Saddam's nor the US's, but rather under their own government.
"liberate"
I don't have an iPod, and I don't see why you would want to use one with that bloated piece of shit instead of iTunes, which is beautiful, but I did notice after I installed iTunes there was some new "iPod Service" installed in the services tab under msconfig. I suggest disabling it if anyone has problems.
yeah
Tired joke != Funny.
Processor speed != bandwidth.
The offbeat news section is real not a parody, so I don't see the connection. Why does the fact that CNN has more articles like this one make you incredulous about it being posted?
Kill yourself and feed your body to the fish you love.
Could you do that sir?
You don't need a credit card to sign up for paypal, that's the point.
Duh.
You're a dork. If you have a creek nearby, use that for electricity when it's overcast.
Duh.
Wow, that joke just gets funnier every time!
Parents sue school over wireless network SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) --A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children. According to the complaint, filed in Illinois state court, parents of five children assert that a growing body of evidence outlines "serious health risks that exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency radiation poses to human beings, particularly children." The Oak Park Elementary School District set up a wireless network to connect its schools to one another in 1995, long before such networks became wildly popular. A spokeswoman for the district, Gail Crantz, said it complies with all government regulations for wireless networks. Today, the 5,000 students in the district have access to carts of laptop computers to do research on the Internet from their desks, said Steve Chowanski, director of information services for the district. An estimated 30 million WiFi networks have been installed worldwide, according to the WiFi Alliance, which certifies wireless products. Brian Grimm, a spokesman for the group, said he is unaware of other similar suits targeting WiFi networks. According to Chowanski, a small group of parents had complained about the risks of installing wireless networks in the school. In response, the school board said it would continue to monitor research into the safety of the networks but reaffirmed its plan to use WiFi. "We are not going to do anything different," Chowanski said. "This is the wave of the future." The complaint by the parents was filed on September 26 in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois. A hearing before Judge Nancy Arnold is scheduled for February. The parents allege that the district failed to examine the health impact that wireless local area networks pose, especially for growing children. They are seeking class action status for their suit, which seeks to halt the use of wireless networks. Calls to the parents and their lawyers were not immediately returned. The WiFi Alliance says WiFi networks are safe. The radio waves in a WiFi network use the same frequency as wireless home phones, and have one-thirtieth the power of, cordless phones, Grimm, the spokesman for the group, said.
Are you sure they wouldn't end up at http;\\www.\..org/?
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WTF are you talking about? MMX is an Intel buzzword.
Q. How do you fix a broken chimp?
A. With a monkeywrench.
How many innocent American Citizens have been rounded up into concentration camps and murdered in gas chambers as a result of the terrorist witchhunt?
If you shoot him in the head, how will he pull the cord or press the button?
Not to be a pedantic bastard, but you should have written "If I were a camwhore, I would be loved." You can read about the English subjunctive mood here.