There is a weird article in the Sunday Telegraph about how Abu Nidal was killed by Saddam Hussain’s security services because he refused to help train Al-Qeada fighters for terrorist strikes against the West.
Sorry but my bullshit detectors are honking extremely loudly. 
Now let me nail my colours to the mast before I proceed: I want war with Saddam Hussain and his vile brood. I want Saddam Hussain dead and his supporters slaughtered in vast numbers. I want to see the laser guided hammer of God strike Baghdad and the skies filled with thermobaric fire on a biblical scale. I want passage of B-52 bombers to register on the Richter scale. I actually do think the Iraqi regime poses an unacceptable threat to me. And before anyone says ‘and by that interventionist logic, why not take out North Korea and China too?’… yes, that would be fine by me. Hell, feel free to add Saudi Arabia, Syria and maybe even Pakistan to that list. It seems to me that if we are going to turn back the tide of statism in the Western World, lets hurry up and remove the justification of ‘security considerations’ as quickly as possible (this is obviously somewhat of a caricature of my actual position, but in essence that is where I stand).
That said, is it just me or is this latest spin on the death of Abu Nidal not the most crassly obvious media plant by The Boys in Langley to justify an attack on Iraq that has ever been printed in a ‘serious newspaper’?
Face it, how the hell would these ‘intelligence sources’ have the foggiest idea why Saddam’s lads killed the psychopathic Abu Nidal? Frankly it would make political sense for Saddam to publicly say “Look guys, I just blew away the odious Abu Nidal cos he was playin’ footie with those awful Islamic fundamentalist Al Qaeda fruit loops, so as you can see, it makes no sense whatsoever to attack me, a secular socialist in the Ba’athist tradition”.
I mean, how stupid is this?
