Book Description From the authors of the Fox News.com series The Saddam Dossier comes this exploration of Saddam's involvement with Islamic terrorism. After the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War, Saddam embarked upon a covert war against the US using proxy Islamic groups much as the US had done to the Soviets just a few years before. In 2002 the US Congress and the President decided to remove the Saddam regime because of its' support for terrorism (and perceived WMD threat). Shortly after the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, special teams began to collect these documents in a monumental effort to catalog the regime's secrets. Found among just a few hundred publicly released memos is evidence that Saddam supported Islamic terror groups. Both In One Trench may help the reader decide if the war was worth it. Ray Robison is a former US Army officer and member of the Iraqi Survey Group. He is a contributor to the American Thinker website. (www.rayrobison.com)
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Ray Robison is a former army officer, military analyst who worked with the Iraq Survey Group to catalog captured regime documents. As a private citizen, he has explored the meaning of these documents for outlets such as Fox News Channel, American Thinker, and Pajamas Media.
His work has been referenced in the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Investor's Business Daily, US News and World Report, Slate Magazine, Jerusalem Post, National Review, and many national radio programs. Although he specializes in Iraqi document exploitation, he also writes about general military matters and exposes media abuses against the military and military members.
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Historic perspective that dots the "i's" and crosses the "t's",
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When it was reported that the Iraq Survey Group had confiscated documents from the Saddam regime in 2003, I was anxious for news of their content. Most citizens, via the media, have been content to simply dismiss these documents as forgeries. For the layman, to examine any single document without an historic overview, proves uninformative. Because of the lack of sensationalism - meaning something akin to a signed confession of guilt - the media reports of the translations were sparse, and their place in the context of time and events vague.
But wait... it is not that simple. What was ignored by the media was an actual diary by an IIS agent, filled with memos and notes of various meetings over years of time. Analyzed by ME experts, the identification and plans of the convened parties in the diary notes, plus actual subsequent events, reveals a gun... if not smoking... that is still downright hot from discharging. More than just a translation, the author takes you thru history - connecting the dots between the various documents, and their participants, with actual historic events. By connecting the dots, data and events, a real perspective on how the Global Islamic Jihadist Movement interplays with the various Middle East countries and their leadership - and just how those countries must play along to insure their own survival - becomes abundantly clear to western minds. Without an author familiar with the players in the Global Islamic Jihadist Movement, these documents could be... and have been... passed over as inconsequential. All efforts verifying authenticity is disclosed. But perhaps the best proof of all is their prescient and ominous plans - finally realized in all too many actual events. This book is not for those content with a media sound byte education. It is, in fact, a fabulous textbook for anyone who genuinely wants to understand how our enemy survives and functions. You will learn not only of Saddam and his regime's covert actions in his efforts to retain power, but a new perspective on the entire, and widespread, jihad movement itself.
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Some say Saddam Hussein & his regime were "strictly secular", and would never have worked with religious terrorists.
Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief & Middle East Regional Editor of Newsweek Magazine, himself attended a 'Popular Islamic Conference' in Iraq in 1993 - Just as the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush was about to order the launch of crusie missles on Iraq as one of his final acts as President. While the entire eye witness testimony should be read, this excerpt from Dickey's first hand account is especially telling: "So Islamic radicals from all over the Middle East, Africa and Asia converged on Baghdad to show their solidarity with Iraq in the face of American aggression. Chechens in Persian-lamb hats, Moroccans in caftans, delegates who hailed "from Jakarta to Dakar," as one Senegalese put it, poured into Baghdad's Rashid Hotel, where Saddam's minions urged them to embrace jihad as "the one gate to Paradise." And the greatest holy warrior of all? "The mujahed Saddam Hussein, who is leading this nation against the nonbelievers," they were told. "Everyone has a task to do, which is to go against the American state," declared Saddam's deputy Ezzat Ibrahim [al-Douri]"... "That was in January 1993. I was there, and every time I hear diplomats and politicians, whether in Washington or the capitals of Europe, declare that Saddam Hussein is a "secular Baathist ideologue" who has nothing to do with Islamists or with terrorist calls to jihad, I think of that afternoon and I wonder what they're talking about? If that was not a fledgling Qaeda itself at the Rashid convention, it sure was Saddam's version of it." http://www.Newsweek.com/id/65578/page/1 According to detainees, as well as captured documents translated and analyzed by the US Military's "Iraqi Perspectives Project" designed to look into the eyes of Saddam's regime, "Since 1994 The Fedayeen Saddam camps 'graduated' 7200 people" . "Beginning in 1998 these camps began hosting Arab Volunteers from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, The [Persian] Gulf [States], and Syria. "These training camps were humming with frenzied activity in the months immediately prior to the war ... As late as January 2003 the volunteers participated in a special training event called 'heroes attack'". Chapter III starting page 51 http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2006/ipp.pdf About Ray Robison - A career that spans the C.I.A.'s Iraq Survey Group, The Defense Intelligence Agency, & The 101st Airborne brings journalists from Christopher Hitchens on the left to Rush Limbaugh on the right to ALL AGREE: Ray Robison is uniquely qualified to analyze the millions of items in Saddam's Archives. A comprehensive report on this book and other back ground info can be found at www.sonicbids.com/BothInOneTrench
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Excellent review of the intelligence gathered from Iraq. Some assumptions made that may be somewhat questionable, but makes good arguments to support them. Very readable. Lays out the intelligence, offers opinions, and allows for different views.
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