A very useful site for information on the links between Saddam's regime and terrorism is the appropriately named, Regime of Terror blog. Here's a sampling:
Earlier this year, Mohammed Rashed, a.k.a. Rashid Mohammed, was quietly convicted and sentenced in connection with the 1982 bombing of Pan Am flight 830. (Thomas Joscelyn commented on this story in March of this year) The attack took the life of Shigetsugu Ozawa and injured several other passengers.
Ozawa's father recalled witnessing the murder of his own son in a letter to government officials, saying "At the time, my honest emotion was to wish the plane would crash into the Hawaiian ocean as I had lost the will to live since my son was no longer alive."
Rashed belonged to the "15 May" terrorist group, which was formed in 1979 with the objective of "promoting the Palestinian cause by killing Israeli and U.S. citizens, and by causing damage to Israeli and American interests around the world." The FBI's press release states that the group is "believed to be responsible for five separate bombing missions in the early 1980s."
The "15 May" group, "was based in Iraq, with operatives around the world" and provided safe haven by Saddam Hussein's regime to launch multiple bombing operations throughout Europe, and in this case a U.S. passenger plane headed to the U.S., from their Baghdad base.
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