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BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE
Saddam's female assassin squads
Dispatched to Denmark to kill, maim Kurdish refugees, defectors on the run

Posted: November 02, 2000
1:00 am Eastern

By Anthony LoBaido
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com

Editor's note: This is Part 2 of WorldNetDaily international correspondent Anthony C. LoBaido's series on the plight of the Kurds, who attempted to stand up to Iraq's Saddam Hussein during and after the Persian Gulf War. In Part 1, LoBaido documented the current status of the Kurdish resistance movement. For this report, LoBaido traveled to Scandinavia, where Iraqi dissidents and Kurdish refugees still find themselves hunted by Saddam's exotic intelligence apparatus.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has sent hordes of female assassins here and to other European destinations to wipe out Kurdish refugees and defectors fleeing Iraq, and even has installed spies on the Danish Refugee Council, according to the Danish Red Cross.

The assassins infiltrate Iraqi opposition circles and kill and maim leading Kurdish and Iraqi opposition leaders by means ranging from poisonings to car crashes. Graduates of a two-month training course held outside Baghdad, these "Mata Hari" hit squads are code-named Operation Falcon. According to British intelligence, they are staffed by belly dancers, actresses and artists who claim to be seeking asylum.

It is all part of a bizarre and brazen attempt on Saddam Hussein's part to crush the life out of any opposition movement that could conceivably threaten to unseat his maniacal dictator-for-life agenda. And the Kurds certainly qualify as such a threat, since they have time and again attempted to stand up to Saddam -- with the encouragement, if not sufficient support, of the United States.

Immigration out of control
This international spy thriller is taking place here in this relatively idyllic Scandinavian nation because of Denmark's experiment with mass third-world immigration.

For it is not only Kurdish refugees from Iraq and Turkey seeking a life away from the violence and intimidation suffered at the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Turkish army. Immigrants are also fleeing here in large numbers from places like Bosnia, Armenia, Kurdistan and Lebanon. They are "the vast minority," Carina Hildegard Gundersen, a Danish Red Cross worker, told WorldNetDaily during a recent visit to some of the camps outside of Copenhagen.

Sadly, many needy refugees who are legitimately in need of asylum and who would obey the law and contribute to Denmark's society and future are caught up in a cultural and political crossfire. The wide-open-door policy toward immigration is very controversial, and for good reason.

"Some of these people. The stories they tell you break your heart. One woman from Bosnia, she saw some Serb soldiers throw her two children into a cement mixer and kill them," Gundersen said.

"Others are just evil and violent people who want to take advantage of our asylum laws. We even had a few mass murderers from Rwanda in our camps who had been at the forefront of the genocide in that nation against the Tutsis. Quite recently, we had gangs of Armenians and Afghanis killing each other with guns and knives in our camps. Many of them had to go to the hospital," she said.

"This is just the top of the mountain," she added. "Just wait -- the immigration wave will change to a flood wave. The regular Danish people will be expected to be superhuman people who live only to pay more than 50 percent taxes to pay for the welfare parasites. We are being inundated. I have no doubt that the Muslims will launch attacks on the Jewish rabbis. Afterwards, everyone will say, 'How could that happen?'

"My daughters will no longer hear the sound of the roosters waking them up in the morning, but rather the prayer call to Allah and the mosque."

Refugees to Denmark include black and Muslim immigrants.

The Danish Refugee Council reports that 5,702 people applied for asylum in Denmark in 1998. In 1999, the number grew to 6,467. More than 60 percent of them received permission to stay in Denmark.

Later, those immigrants received permission to bring their family members from the Third World to Denmark. In 1998, some 9,687 family members arrived here; in 1999, another 9,480.

"We can't change the world," said Gundersen. "I get through the day by trying to help the good refugees who really need our help."

There are several different kinds of camps in Denmark for refugees. One camp, Sandholm, is a "closed camp" that is forbidden to outsiders. Those refugees who flee persecution and who are still in great danger -- such as fighter pilots defecting from Iraq -- are processed at Sandholm.

To these men, the saying, "You can run, but you can't hide," is chillingly real, Gundersen says.

"The police are officially not allowed inside the camps, nor are the intelligence agencies. Many times, we are forced to protect some Iraqi defectors ourselves. I had a pilot living in my house for a few weeks with my three daughters. It was crazy. But it was the only way to protect him from the Iraqi agents who are still hunting him," she said.

According to Gundersen, Saddam Hussein's Bath Party has many representatives in Denmark.

"They travel between Copenhagen and Iraq at will. They spy on the refugees and defectors. Many of the refugees are abducted and killed or simply disappear. Saddam even has spies on the Danish Refugee Council. They work as interpreters to process applications and interview asylum seekers. It is so odd that this is allowed to happen. We all know who the spies are, and we are Red Cross workers," Gundersen said.

"But Saddam wants the Kurds out of Kurdistan and into Scandinavia and elsewhere. Why? So he can help destroy the Kurdish Resistance Movement within his own sphere of influence."

Saddam's female assassins
Saddam has set up a large force of female assassins who are carrying out hits in England, Scandinavia and elsewhere.

These women are graduates of a two-month training course held in the Salman Pak camp outside Baghdad. The camp is run by Brig. Gen. Muhammed Khidair, director of special operations in the General Directorate of Intelligence, and Hassan Azaba, head of Saddam's personal spy network.

This charming Scandinavian city is home to thousands of new refugees.

The assassin network is run by Khidir Al Meshhadani, Iraq's new director of intelligence operations in Europe.

Code-named Operation Falcon, the corps consists of women claiming to be seeking asylum themselves, primarily belly dancers, actresses and artists, according to British intelligence sources. Iraqi female assassins reportedly have been dispatched also to Turkey, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Belgium, France, Holland, Germany and Austria.

"The regime is using women because they would raise less suspicion," says Dr. Ayad Allawi, secretary general of the London-based Iraqi National Accord and a former ally of Saddam. "In our culture, we don't expect women to spy or kill. This is the most substantial operation we have seen for years."

Iraq isn't the only entity hunting refugees in Denmark. On Aug. 5, Michael Rughede, a journalist for the Danish newspaper B.T., wrote about the arrival of Moulavi Abdul Raman Zahid, the vice minister of foreign affairs in Afghanistan, to Denmark.

Many asylum seekers from Afghanistan who learned of his arrival angrily complained to authorities in Denmark, demanding to know why Zahid was permitted to visit the country.

Zahid declared while in Denmark, "We will find all who escape from the country, and we will cut their heads off."

The story of Hassan
WorldNetDaily interviewed one Kurdish Iraqi defector, a doctor named Hassan from Karakook. Hassan told a sad and twisted tale of his journey from Kurdistan through Iran, Turkey and finally into Denmark.

"The village I come from is very ancient. It has a system much like feudalism, even in modern times. I left there only because of the biological attacks on our people by Saddam. I had to leave because my son started an underground newspaper. He had no money, but he had strong opinions on the freedom of the Kurdish people," Hassan said.

"I funded the newspaper. The Islamic parties were against the paper because it spoke of Christianity and freedom. I, too, was intoxicated by these ideas of self-determination. The Islamic parties connected with Saddam, they sought out our little newspaper enterprise. But we were clever and hid it well. Then they began to intimidate my wife and two daughters to such an extent that we had to leave our home. We had been in this town for many centuries, my family."

Hassan said his village was also attacked by the Turkish army.

"The Turks were very brutal in our region. They would throw people out of helicopters. They would cut off the heads of PKK (Kurdish Worker's Party) supporters and soldiers and put them on a stick as a warning to others. I tell you this: We Kurds in Kurdistan who are close to Iraq, Saddam gives us many problems. But the Kurds who are attacked by the Turkish army, they are much, much worse off.

"Sure, the PKK has killed many thousands in Turkey with terrorism, and Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK, he has done much evil. But the Kurds like us who refused to go along with his terror campaign, we were still hunted down and killed by the Turkish army. They never asked us, 'Do you support the PKK?'"

Hassan finally decided to run away.

"I decided to leave Kurdistan for Iran. But the Islamic party I fled sent agents that followed me there. They had finally uncovered our printing press. In Iran, we Kurds were placed in a large refugee camp. I had to flee the camp when the Islamic party agents closed in on me. After that, I was caught in the mountains on my way to Turkey and conscripted into the Iraqi army, where I served as a doctor. At first, I hated God. I thought he turned his back on me. Then eventually, I was able to treat many Kurds and Iraqi soldiers injured and wounded in fighting. I learned from Iraqi military experts about how to survive a biological and chemical attack. Moreover, I was able to teach many of those I treated about Jesus, and as a result, many came to know him as their Lord and Savior."

Hassan continued, "When there is a biological attack, the first thing that happens is you smell a sweet and strange scent. During my attempted escape to Iran, I was in a cave in a small village where the Iraqis came hunting for Kurdish rebels. We were sitting in the cave eating dinner. We heard an airplane fly over and then came that smell.

"A woman was holding a baby in her arms. She was feeding the baby watermelon. The chemical residue went into the melon, and the baby ate it and died. Other people were affected by the gas in such a way that they could not move. I and others survived by breathing air that was smoked through a water pipe."

Hassan went on to elaborate about the Iraqi biological and chemical weapons programs.

"While posted to the Iraqi army, I met many Russian and Chinese military advisers who were experts on biological and chemical war. There were also Japanese from the Om Shin Rikyo cult that did that nerve gas attack in Tokyo. They talked all the time about unleashing biological or chemical weapons in the major cities of the West and Western allies. At that time, I actually got to meet Dr. Hassan Izbah. He is called 'Dr. Death' by all who know him. He is the main person Saddam uses to work with various cults and terror groups around the world. To me he is a Nazi like Dr. Mengele.

"Finally, I deserted the Iraqi army and again headed for Turkey. This time, I made it through to the other side. I paid off a Turkish military commander with 100,000 krona and got fake papers made up for me. I then took a bus to Istanbul and boarded a plane for Denmark. When I was debriefed here, I told the Danish intelligence agents about the Om cult. They said they were aware of this but could not do anything about it. They said that if the people were aware of this, panic would result. The stock market might collapse and there would be mass panic. Mass panic? I am in panic because they won't do anything to prevent what is waiting for us all. Biological weapons don't discriminate. They kill everyone in their path. Good and evil, Muslim, Christian, Jew, black and white."

Hassan concluded, "I know that the Lord brought me through this ordeal so I could warn people about what is coming."

No bed of roses
Gundersen claims that some of the worst immigrants are the Russians and Armenians.

"We can't talk to the press," she explained. "We are forbidden to tell our countrymen what is going on inside the camps and in our society. But enough is enough. There is no time to waste. A Danish intelligence officer told me that of every 50 thefts in this country, 45 are carried out by immigrants.

"Then there is rape and murder and assault. These are almost exclusively carried out by non-whites and non-Christians. I know there are good and bad in all races, but the data does not lie.

"They threaten me -- 'Do you know what I can do to you?' One man, a Palestinian, leftt he camp and went into town. He got drunk with his stipend money and then beat and kicked a Danish man. Then we had to pay a lawyer to represent the Palestinian in court and pay his fine. And he was not deported.

"They steal everything, even the gas from my car in the parking lot, and they slash my tires if I don't give them what they want immediately," she said.

"Sometimes things get really crazy. Last year, when the United Nations declared that a major portion of Kurdistan, in Northern Iraq was now safe to return to, many of the Kurds in Denmark were going to be deported. The Kurds in the camp planned for a week an uprising. One of the teen-agers warned us what was coming. They bashed in all of the windows in our offices and threw stones at us, big stones. All of us hid under the desks. They bashed all of our computers. We had to sit in the winter with plastic on the windows and no heat. Then one of them ran into my office and poured gasoline all over himself and me and threatened to light us on fire if he were deported. I don't like having to face down their collective rage."

"Really, I think instead of giving them a monthly stipend and asylum we should give them a map and a border pass and a train ticket back to where they came from. The government can do this in a humane way. Once the radicals take over in Scandinavia and drive out the black and Muslim immigrants, it will be done in a brutal and ugly way. But that is the future of this nation, I am afraid."

Three of Gundersen's Red Cross coworkers joined the discussion: "The situation has become unmanageable. These immigrants don't want to assimilate. They don't belong in our culture. The Muslims and Somalis form gangs and pillage through Copenhagen. They want to rape and use the system -- the Muslims in particular. They want the Red Cross to change our symbol to a crescent moon, like on the Islamic flag. They want their own political party. They can't serve in our army, thank God. Why would we bring a bomb inside our own nation? It is suicide, I tell you."

WorldNetDaily encountered numerous Muslim immigrant taxi drivers who openly spoke of "jihad" and "killing all of the white people, especially Christians."

At the same time, WND interviewed scores of ordinary Dutch and Danes who all agreed that there will be "a war within 10 years to drive out the immigrants. It will begin in Russia and spread to Scandinavia."

Said one Danish taxi driver who voiced the typical opinion, "When the blacks and Muslims get enough numbers in Denmark, they will turn on us and try and kill us. But Danes are not stupid. They see the white farmers being killed in Zimbabwe. We know our government won't protect us. But there are guns all around here. You can buy them everywhere and already the average person is preparing for the war to come."

Michael Jorgensen, another Red Cross worker, told WorldNetDaily, "We don't need this mass immigration from Lebanon and Kurdistan. Western governments should have supported the Christian outposts and enclaves that existed in the Middle East instead of abandoning them. We need our own people, marrying our own and having many babies. It is not racist to save our own race and civilization. That is natural. The European Union speaks of genocide as a crime. I say it is a crime for them to destroy our race and civilization through mass immigration."

Karen Monahan-Graham, an unemployed Canadian woman who has taught English as a second language course to Kurdish refugees in Canada, told WorldNetDaily, "I love the Kurds and feel for their plight. But they come to Canada with six children. And they get welfare and a new car. I have to ride my bicycle around like Pee Wee Herman, even in the winter. And I can't get a job. I can't get into grad school because of racial quotas. But when I tutor the Kurdish children, I see their innocence. One boy, Cameron, he is so cute and he runs up to me and hugs me and that makes me really happy. So we must separate the political issue from the human issue."

Beate Van der Hausen, a German Internet systems analyst who works in Copenhagen, told WorldNetDaily, "We have many Kurds and Turks in Germany. We need them as workers. Why? Because we have aborted and murdered our own children to such an extent that there aren't enough people."

Van der Hausen continued, "When I couldn't find a job in my field, I even worked in construction, believe it or not, because they didn't have enough men who would work hard and not steal any tools. So to me, if the Kurds or anyone want to come to our country and work hard and obey the law, that's fine with me. But we don't need any criminals. We have enough of our own already."

Read Part 1: "Getting free from Saddam"

Read related background report: "The Kurds' life of desperation"





Among his many pursuits, journalist Anthony C. LoBaido spent 2008 working with the South Korean armed forces. He also appeared in the definitive Korean documentary on United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. A longtime contributor to WorldNetDaily.com, LoBaido maintains a blog entitled The Walls of Jericho.




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