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| Iraq & the PFLP: Why aren't we seeing these? - Dan Darling |
| 2005-02-23 |
| So I'm reading my former boss Michael Ledeen's column today and I learn (via a link to Iraq the Model) that according to a captured Iraqi terrorist that George Habash's PFLP (the only Palestinian group ever to successfully assassinate a member of the Israeli cabinet) has come out of the woodwork and is now actively involved in targeting US forces in Iraq. That's a huge story given its Syrian connections, and it certainly isn't the first of its kind to come out of broadcasts on Iraqi TV. Which leads me to the question: Why isn't this getting more play over here? Why aren't any of these stories getting play over here? What this means Like I said above, the PFLP has been around since the 1970s and is one of the deadliest Palestinian terrorist groups in the business. The Israelis appear to have more or less dismantled their infrastructure in the Palestinian Territories, but they still retain more than enough fighters and infrastructure in the Levant. It is also a wholely-owned subsidiary of the Syrian government (complete with offices in Damascus where the group's founder, George Habash, lives) and serves as one of their more capable Palestinian proxies against the Israeli government. If the PFLP is fighting against US forces inside Iraq at Habash's behest, it is inconceiveable that they would be doing so without the knowledge of their Syrian handlers. To bring it down to the bottom line, this means that a Palestinian terrorist group that is trained, harbored, and financed by Bashar al-Assad's regime is complicit in the deaths of US and Iraqi soldiers. If this can be confirmed, it would seem to indicate that Syrian involvement in the assassination of Rafik Hariri would be the least of al-Assad's (or Khaddam, if we want to be more up-front about these things) problems. Ah, but is it true? |
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