Saddam's German Terrorism Project

I just wonder why the German media frequently lament the chaos and the loss of order in post-Saddam Iraq - without mentioning the murderous character of Saddam's reign, when he was still in power. There was proof of Saddam's terrorism preference even on German soil:

Financial Times:

Germans help Iraqis recover memories from files
By Hugh Williamson in Berlin /Published: November 27 2004 02:00
For Bakhtiar Amin the chance yesterday to visit the former headquarters of East Germany's Stasi secret police had personal significance beyond his duties as human rights minister in Iraq's interim government.

As he examined thousands of file cards in the archives of the ugly east Berlin ex-Stasi compound, he recalled a previous visit to Berlin, in 1980, when an assassination attempt against him and other Iraqi dissidents was foiled only at the last minute. Iraqi diplomats loyal to the former dictator Saddam Hussein, based in communist East Berlin, crossed into West Berlin carrying explosives, to blow up a conference involving 750 German and Kurdish students. (emphasis added)

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[PacRim Jim]

Don't count on much being revealed. They haven't helped catch Stasi agents in the former East Germany.