Max commented on Iraq...Reminder to Joanna, who was skeptical of my post based on MEMRI and Newsweek reportage on pre-war planning for resistance.Daily Star correspondents are reprinted in leftish journals like Middle East International, http://meionline.com/ Heh, how appropriate, a piece on Lockerbie! http://meionline.com/editorial/134.shtml Joanna, ask Hakki about Lockerbie?!
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Few Arabs shedding tears over U.S. losses in Iraq Many still angry at
bloody invasion and occupation of their neighbor
> ...In an article last week in the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper,
> prominent Lebanese journalist Ali Ballout, who boasts a 30-year personal
> relationship with Hussein, said the former dictator had a long-standing
> plan for a protracted post-invasion guerrilla war.
Starting shortly after America's "Desert Fox" bombing campaign, which was launched the day U.N. weapons inspectors withdrew in December 1998, Hussein organized and distributed weapons, funds and instructions to three "militarily and financially autonomous" resistance groups: Al Mujahedeen (the religious fighters); Al Ansar (the supporters); and Al Muhagiroon (the emigrants), Ballout said. The groups include former Baath Party elements, military veterans and non-Iraqi Islamic volunteers.
-- Michael Pugliese