Saddam Hussein planned to attack Radio Free Europe - Czech intelligence

You may find this hard to believe, but Iraq's former leader planned to attack and destroy Radio Free Europe.
The plot was recently made public by Media Network and the Czech government.

Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Davis, W2JKD, has more:

According to Andy Sennitt at Media Network the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered his secret agents to attack the Prague headquarters of US-run Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. This, to end broadcasting to Iraq.

Sennitt quotes Czech intelligence service spokesman Jan Subert who said that the attack was ordered by the then Iraqi leader in 2000. Also that Iraqi intelligence agents planned to use numerous weapons including rocket propelled grenades, rifles and submachine guns in the attack. Subert said that the weapons had been stock-piled for the attack after they were brought into the country in an Iraqi diplomatic car.

It was not known when the attack was due to take place but Subert said that Czech intelligence discovered the plot and the Iraqis submitted the weapons to Czech authorities in 2003. The plan was for the attack to take place from the window of a nearby flat that the Iraqis planned to rent as an
office for a fake company.

Jim Davis, W2JKD

The report seems to indicate that good intelligence by Czech national security foiled Saddam Hussein's plot.

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