For those peace queers who believe that Sadamm had nothing to do with
terrorism, I enter the following facts into evidence.

Of course, I expect that the facts will fall heavily upon the deaf
ears
of liberals and the "let's get to steppin" wing of the Democratic
party.

* In 1993, the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) directed and
pursued an attempt to assassinate, through the use of a powerful car
bomb, former U.S. President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait.
Kuwaiti authorities thwarted the terrorist plot and arrested 16
suspects, led by two Iraqi nationals.

* Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq
Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and
in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military
personnel and U.S. civilians.

* Iraq shelters several prominent Palestinian terrorist
organizations in Baghdad, including the Palestine Liberation Front
(PLF), which is known for aerial attacks against Israel and is headed
by Abu Abbas, who carried out the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship
Achille Lauro and murdered U.S. citizen Leon Klinghoffer.

* Iraq shelters the Abu Nidal Organization, an international
terrorist organization that has carried out terrorist attacks in
twenty countries, killing or injuring almost 900 people. Targets have
included the United States and several other Western nations. Each of
these groups have offices in Baghdad and receive training, logistical
assistance, and financial aid from the government of Iraq.

* In April 2002, Saddam Hussein increased from $10,000 to $25,000
the money offered to families of Palestinian suicide/homicide bombers.
The rules for rewarding suicide/homicide bombers are strict and insist
that only someone who blows himself up with a belt of explosives gets
the full payment. Payments are made on a strict scale, with different
amounts for wounds, disablement, death as a "martyr" and $25,000 for a
suicide bomber. Mahmoud Besharat, a representative on the West Bank
who is handing out to families the money from Saddam, said, "You would
have to ask President Saddam why he is being so generous. But he is a
revolutionary and he wants this distinguished struggle, the intifada,
to continue."

* Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret
terrorist training facility in Iraq known as Salman Pak, where both
Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and
trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations.

* Saddam Hussein has failed to return, or account for, a large
number of Kuwaiti citizens and citizens of other countries who were
detained during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and continues to refuse
to cooperate with the Tripartite Commission to resolve the cases.

* Of 609 cases of missing Gulf War POWs/MIAs representing 14
nationalities - including one American pilot - under review by the
Tripartite Commission on Gulf War Missing, only 4 have been resolved.
Because of continued Iraqi obfuscation and concealment, very few cases
have been resolved since the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein denies having
any knowledge of the others and claims that any relevant records were
lost in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

* In a December 2001 report to the UN Security Council, the UN
Secretary-General criticized the Iraqi Government's refusal to
cooperate with the U.N. on the issue of the missing POWs/MIAs
citizens. Iran reports that the Iraqi Government still has not
accounted for 5,000 Iranian POW's missing since the Iran-Iraq War.

* "Secretary General reiterates little progress on the issue of
repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country nationals or
their remains, as Iraq refused to cooperate with the Tripartite
Commission."

* In August 2001, Amnesty International reported that Saddam
Hussein has the world's worst record for numbers of persons who have
disappeared and remain unaccounted for.

* The Iraqi Government continued to ignore the more than 16,000
cases conveyed to it in 1994 and 1995 by the UN, as well as requests
from the Governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to account for the
whereabouts of those who had disappeared during Iraq's 1990-91
occupation of Kuwait, and from Iran regarding the whereabouts of
prisoners of war that Iraq captured in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.

* "Security Council regrets that no progress made on return of
Kuwaiti national archives, reiterate need for Iraq to immediately
fulfill all requirements under the relevant resolutions, including
repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third country nationals or
their remains."