The truth of what happened in Halabja had always been hidden from the public, and many who knew exactly what happened in this Kurdish village in the second half of March 1988 disputed the western media coverage of the story.
It is a fact that key Kurdish leaders aided by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad have used a wide network of public relations companies and media outlets in the west to manipulate and twist the truth of what happened in Kurdish Halabja in 1988 in favour of the Kurdish political parties. [...]
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW) "at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 people, many of them women and children, were killed out of hand between February and September 1988, the victims being Iraqi Kurds systematically put to death in large numbers on the orders of the central government in Baghdad".
Comment: This is but one article that gets us a lot closer to the truth of the "Saddam gassed his own people" story. Former CIA operative
Stephen Pelletière has also published much information pointing to the fact that the claim is little more than a fabrication of the American and Israeli governments.
Of course, we should not forget that, back in 2003, when the Bush administration was attempting to justify its planned invasion of Iraq and Bush's attempts to link Saddam and Osama were being met with much derision, the "Saddam gassed his own people" claim was used as useful back up. We should not be surprised therefore that this claim is as bogus as the Osama-Saddam link.
Another very interesting link to the alleged gassing of the Kurds by Saddam is found in the participation of current Iraqi President and Kurish leader Jalal Talabani. While Saddam was busy with the war with Iran, the Kurds took the opportunity to try and further their long term goal of independence from Iraq. Talabani it seems was deeply involved in this conflict and was on the ground in Halabja in 1988. From the Uruknet.info site:
(1) The rebel Kurdish Leader, Jalal Talabani facilitated the introduction of the Iranian forces into Halabja by night so that the Iraqi commander was unaware of the penetration.
(2) Jalal Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, was the rebel force leader in March 1988. In the events around Halabja he obviously deceives his own people, the Kurds, as he first exposes them to Iranian attack, and right after causes them to be gassed with cyanide.
(3) Instead of his own people, Talabani is admittedly siding with the Iranians, but on the other hand Talabani deceives the Iranians too: he entangles them to a very serious international crime, the use of chemical weapons with no profit whatever for Iran (the attack failed). Guilty or not, the Iranians have been under very serious suspicions after this event, made possible by nobody else than Jalal Talabani.
(4) Later on, in the second Iraq war (the one still raging), Mr. Talabani resurfaces as one of the leading allies of the United Stated, waging an illegal war (by UN standards) against Iraq and Iraqi people. As a reward for his contributions he is chosen (rather: seated) as the president of the New Iraq, fitting very well among other scum gathered by the U.S. as the puppet 'government' of Iraq.
From this and the difficult Iran-U.S. relationship, one is seemingly not mistaken in thinking that Mr. Talabani completed his well-started treason of the Iranians (back in 1988), now finding new friends in the United States government.
Talabani (is there some symbolism in that name?) recently received Dick Cheney in Baghdad where he greeted his as "a hero for liberating Iraq", which would seem to put him squarely in the NeoCon camp. But we should also remember that the historic ally of the Kurds are the Israelis, specifically the Mossad who has been working with the Kurds in Iraq for quite some time as mentioned by Seymour Hersh in an article in the New Yorker earlier this year.
What does all of this mean other than the obvious fact that the truth about the alleged gassing of the Kurds by Saddam in 1988 is very different from what we are being told here in the West?
Well, while we cannot know for sure, we
can state some liklihoods. For example:
The real reason for the US invasion of Iraq is NOT generally known.
The US invasion of Iraq was carried out at the behest of Israel.
The US invasion of Iraq is but the first step in a larger plan, probably Israel's.
The Iranian president is an agent of certain Western interests
Israel plans to invade Iran in March 2005.
Israel expects to receive US help for an attack on/war with Iran. Israel may not get such help. Israel may "lose" a conflict with Iran in 2006. Iran may consolidate its power and align with Iraq.
There is another group, above and beyond the American and Israeli governments who are the real masterminds. Their plan is to create the conditions for a major war in the Middle East, wherein a majority of Semitic peoples (Semitic Jews included) will perish.
If we discover the
Ultimate Truth we can quickly dispense with the sideshows that are designed to distract from this ultimate truth.
Comment: This is but one article that gets us a lot closer to the truth of the "Saddam gassed his own people" story. Former CIA operative Stephen Pelletière has also published much information pointing to the fact that the claim is little more than a fabrication of the American and Israeli governments.
Of course, we should not forget that, back in 2003, when the Bush administration was attempting to justify its planned invasion of Iraq and Bush's attempts to link Saddam and Osama were being met with much derision, the "Saddam gassed his own people" claim was used as useful back up. We should not be surprised therefore that this claim is as bogus as the Osama-Saddam link.
Another very interesting link to the alleged gassing of the Kurds by Saddam is found in the participation of current Iraqi President and Kurish leader Jalal Talabani. While Saddam was busy with the war with Iran, the Kurds took the opportunity to try and further their long term goal of independence from Iraq. Talabani it seems was deeply involved in this conflict and was on the ground in Halabja in 1988. From the Uruknet.info site:
(1) The rebel Kurdish Leader, Jalal Talabani facilitated the introduction of the Iranian forces into Halabja by night so that the Iraqi commander was unaware of the penetration.
(2) Jalal Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, was the rebel force leader in March 1988. In the events around Halabja he obviously deceives his own people, the Kurds, as he first exposes them to Iranian attack, and right after causes them to be gassed with cyanide.
(3) Instead of his own people, Talabani is admittedly siding with the Iranians, but on the other hand Talabani deceives the Iranians too: he entangles them to a very serious international crime, the use of chemical weapons with no profit whatever for Iran (the attack failed). Guilty or not, the Iranians have been under very serious suspicions after this event, made possible by nobody else than Jalal Talabani.
(4) Later on, in the second Iraq war (the one still raging), Mr. Talabani resurfaces as one of the leading allies of the United Stated, waging an illegal war (by UN standards) against Iraq and Iraqi people. As a reward for his contributions he is chosen (rather: seated) as the president of the New Iraq, fitting very well among other scum gathered by the U.S. as the puppet 'government' of Iraq.
From this and the difficult Iran-U.S. relationship, one is seemingly not mistaken in thinking that Mr. Talabani completed his well-started treason of the Iranians (back in 1988), now finding new friends in the United States government.
Talabani (is there some symbolism in that name?) recently received Dick Cheney in Baghdad where he greeted his as "a hero for liberating Iraq", which would seem to put him squarely in the NeoCon camp. But we should also remember that the historic ally of the Kurds are the Israelis, specifically the Mossad who has been working with the Kurds in Iraq for quite some time as mentioned by Seymour Hersh in an article in the New Yorker earlier this year.
What does all of this mean other than the obvious fact that the truth about the alleged gassing of the Kurds by Saddam in 1988 is very different from what we are being told here in the West?
Well, while we cannot know for sure, we can state some liklihoods. For example:
The real reason for the US invasion of Iraq is NOT generally known.
The US invasion of Iraq was carried out at the behest of Israel.
The US invasion of Iraq is but the first step in a larger plan, probably Israel's.
The Iranian president is an agent of certain Western interests
Israel plans to invade Iran in March 2005.
Israel expects to receive US help for an attack on/war with Iran. Israel may not get such help. Israel may "lose" a conflict with Iran in 2006. Iran may consolidate its power and align with Iraq.
There is another group, above and beyond the American and Israeli governments who are the real masterminds. Their plan is to create the conditions for a major war in the Middle East, wherein a majority of Semitic peoples (Semitic Jews included) will perish.
If we discover the Ultimate Truth we can quickly dispense with the sideshows that are designed to distract from this ultimate truth.