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   Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'     : Information Clearing House - ICH

   Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'     : Information Clearing House - ICH Secret papers claim the feared assassin was hired to find links between Saddam and al-Qa'ida. By Robert Fisk October 25, 2008 "The Independent" -- -Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Hitherto secret documents which are now in the hands of The Independent – written by Saddam Hussein's brutal security services for Saddam's eyes only – state that he had been "colluding" with the Americans and, with the help of the Egyptians and Kuwaitis, was trying to find evidence linking Saddam and al-Qa'ida. President George Bush was to use claims of a relationship with al-Qa'ida as one of the reasons for his 2003 invasion, along with Iraq's possession of we