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| Iraq |
| Insider recalls life with Saddam |
| 2007-06-25 |
| Gen. Georges Sada used to be vice-marshal of Saddam Hussein's air force and a trusted adviser to the Iraqi dictator. Eighteen times he gave the executed dictator advice Saddam didn't want to hear, such as telling him in the 1991 Gulf War the coalition forces could not be beaten, and in 2003 the U.S., Britain and allies would invade Iraq. Now, Sada, author of the bestselling book Saddam's Secrets: An Insider Exposes Plans to Destroy Israel, Hide WMDs and Control the Arab World (Integrity Books), travels the world explaining why the U.S. had to liberate Iraq and depose of Saddam, with the cost being worth it. He also works assiduously helping to bring both humanitarian relief to Iraq and fighting for constitutional guarantees of religious freedom in his homeland. This weekend, as a guest of Phil Nordin's Jubilee Christian Centre, Sada is in Calgary telling the spellbinding story of his military life and talking about the growing success of America's liberation and rebuilding of Iraq. It's a success, he contends, the Liberal-Left news media tries to disavow and distort. The Iraqi state of Kurdistan, for instance, has now guaranteed freedom of religion, and 1,600 Muslims have already converted to Christianity. The government of Iraq itself hasn't yet gone that far, but Sada is convinced it is moving in the right direction. Indicatively, Sada's American host, Pastor Terry Law, of the Tulsa-based humanitarian organization World Compassion, has had 100,000 Bibles printed in Arabic and is distributing them far and wide in Iraq and Afghanistan, a situation unthinkable until the American-led liberation of the two nations. Sada, a charming and articulate man, noted Saddam's initial attempt to get nuclear weapons was thwarted when the Israeli air force destroyed his reactor in 1981. He contends Saddam was just one year away from being given nuclear weapons by Communist China when American forces invaded, and had huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction that were quickly shipped to Syria as the invasion became imminent. "A dam broke in Syria and it asked Saddam and other leaders for humanitarian assistance. Instead of getting needed clothing and food supplies, Saddam had two jumbo jets loaded with canisters of chemical and biological weapons and those aircraft made 56 flights to move the stockpiles to Syria." The military expert also tells his audiences Saddam once held up a small bottle and boasted that if the contents were unleashed on Washington -- which he intended to see they were -- 100,000 people would die. He warns if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq now, it will leave a void that will allow nations such as Iran and Syria to sweep towards Jerusalem, and backed by terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, destroy the Jewish state. This, he contends, has been part of a grand scheme of the Arab world for several decades, and now with Iran almost at the point of acquiring nuclear weapons, the scenario becomes terrifying. |
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