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Article: Ex-smuggler describes Iraqi plot to blow up US warship: Saddam Hussein was allegedly planning nine terrorist operations.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 3, 2002
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
SULEIMANIYEH, NORTHERN IRAQ -- Iraq planned clandestine attacks against American warships in the Persian Gulf in early 2001, according to an operative of Iranian nationality who says he was given the assignment by ranking members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle.
The alleged plan involved loading at least one trade ship with half a ton of explosives, and - sailing under an Iranian flag to disguise Iraq's role - using a crew of suicide bombers to blow up a US ship in the Gulf.
The operative, who says he smuggled weapons for Iraq through Iran for Al Qaeda during the late ...