Saddam vs. Bin Laden vs. Iran

Off Topic Politics and World Issues
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Excuse my ignorance on these three personalities or country.I am trying my best to learn here. I hope some of the more informed posters on this issue or our muslim members of these boards can shed some light on the 3 being discussed.

Laden: Doesnt Bin Laden thrive of injustice being done to muslims somewhere in the world to recurit confused souls for his terror camps? Like he did in Afghanistan when USSR was attacking, i am certain USA supported both laden and taliban at that moment as well. If so how can the man be linked to Saddam?

Saddam: He was the worst modern dictator. He was a mass murderer, raper, etc of his own people. Was public enemy number one to the Shi’ites and iran as well. But since he was committing such great injustice to his own and was operating 100% against what the Koran teaches how could Bin Laden be-freind this guy as the popular media suggests?

Iran: Their history with Saddam is well documented. However the suggestions that they are harbouring Al-qeda members sounds ludacris to me, considering the Al-Qeda guys are fundamentalist and extremist and have been killing Shi’ites for a while now, which has been the cause of great Shi’ites vs Sunnis violence. I dont find it hard to believe for a second that iran does harbour terrorists, since they have been very outspoken against both USA and Israel in the past(i believe their atheletes refused to compete against isreal in the olympics as well). However i am certain it is not Bin-Ladens group, since they are most probably enemies. So could someone please shed some light on the terrorist groups operating out of Iran, and why arent they mentioned in the news often enough?

Or did all three of these parties join forces, to wage war on the one common enemy, USA?

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Very good question.

Remember the first Gulf War when Saddam flew his planes to Iran so we wouldn’t destroy them?

I thought they hated each other. I still can’t figure that one out.

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[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Very good question.

Remember the first Gulf War when Saddam flew his planes to Iran so we wouldn’t destroy them?

I thought they hated each other. I still can’t figure that one out.[/quote]

I think Saddam who was and is delusional thought Iran, even though they hated each other, would go by the old code of your enemy is my enemy and give back his planes at some point. He was wrong those planes were not returned.

Either way it was not that big of a gamble he was going to lose the planes either way. The only risk was if Iran would use his own planes against him at some point, but after years of war against each other that didn’t amount to shit for either of them, I don’t think Iran was in any hurry to strike back at him.