Officer: Saddam trained al-Qaida pre-9-11

http://www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | Posted: October 20, 2003 | WorldNetDaily.com

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Officer: Saddam trained al-Qaida pre-9-11
Iraqi paper says Fedayeen supervised hijack drills in summer 2001

Saddam Hussein ordered the training of al-Qaida members two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to an independent Iraqi weekly.

The Fedayeen, under the command of Saddam's late son Uday, directly supervised 100 al-Qaida fighters who were split into two groups, reported Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, citing an Iraqi officer identified by the initial L.

One group went to Al-Nahrawan and the second to Salman Pak, near Baghdad, where they were trained to hijack airplanes, the officer said in an article translated by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

According to the testimony of Iraqi military defector Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, Iraqi intelligence had a Boeing 707 fuselage at Salman Pak used to train groups how to hijack planes without weapons. His claims were consistent with commercial satellite photos showing the fuselage. Saddam's regime insisted to U.N. inspectors Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces.

The Iraqi weekly, quoting the anonymous officer, said senior Fedayeen officers visited the al-Qaida fighters almost daily, "especially during the final days when they transferred them, late at night in two red trucks that belonged to the Ministry of Transportation, to an undisclosed destination."

"I witnessed that with my own eyes because on that day I was the duty officer," he said.

The officer recalled one day a Land Cruiser belonging to Saddam's personal security force, Al-Amn Al-Khass, arrived, and a senior officer, one of Saddam's personal bodyguards, stepped out.

After a two-hour meeting with a select group of officers at the Special Forces school, the officer said "we were informed that we would have dear guests, and that we should train them very well in a high level of secrecy – not to allow anyone to approach them or to talk to them in any way, shape or form."

About 100 trainees arrived a few days later, he said, a mixture of Arabs, Arabs from the Saudi peninsula, Muslim Afghans and other Muslims from various parts of the world.

The training, he said, was under direct supervision of a major general he identified only by his initials, M. DH. L, who he said now serves as a police commander in one of the provinces.

Most left Iraq after completion of their training, but others stayed through the last battle in Baghdad against coalition forces earlier this year.

The officer said he remembers the leader of the group was a Saudi cleric named Muhammad "who was a fervent and audacious individual and did not require much training."

"He was highly skilled, and could fire accurately at a target while riding a motorcycle," the Iraqi officer said. "Additionally, he used to deliver fiery sermons calling for jihad and for fighting the Americans anywhere in the world."

Surprisingly, he continued, "this man's picture, alongside the commander of the Special Forces school, was televised several times before the beginning of the war and the fall of the former regime."

At the beginning of the Iraq war this year, the officer said, "we were surprised to see the same people whom we had trained return to the Special Forces school and with them 100 additional individuals. The high command asked us to retrain them and to divide them into several groups to be deployed in various areas in Iraq."

"Truth be told," he said, "most of these individuals competed to go to war and to the front lines. Therefore, under pressure they participated immediately in extremely fierce battles that astonished the Iraqis and the Americans."

On April 5, about 100 of the foreign trainees were sent to the 11th company division on the front lines in Nasiriya.

"And for the sake of history," he said, "I will say that this division's endurance was due to some formidable fighters, the commanding officer and members of al-Qaida who fought with intensity and brutality that are seldom matched, while they were praising Allah: Allahu Akbar [Allah is great] … Allahu Akbar. …"

These battled, which took place for 17 days, forced coalition troops to withdraw and re-enter from the industrial areas of Nasiriya, he noted.

Others went to al-Kifl, he said, and participated in "extremely brutal battles."

"Not many of them retreated and they sacrificed their lives to Apache [helicopter] fire, amid the admiration of the Iraqis and the Americans themselves," he said. "The proof is that some of them blew themselves up in the midst of American forces."

[JacksonCalhoun]

Sarcastic 'secular' Saddam would never join with 'fundamentalist' Osama bump.

[justlurking]

"Not many of them retreated and they sacrificed their lives to Apache [helicopter] fire, amid the admiration of the Iraqis and the Americans themselves," he said. "The proof is that some of them blew themselves up in the midst of American forces."

It was nice of them to come back to Iraq, so we didn't have to go looking for them elsewhere.

[boycott]

Uday want ever do that again.

[woofie]

hmmmmmmmm

[VOA]

"I don't know...this time I think they are serious."

My favorite quote of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Supposedly this is what
Uday or Quasy said when associates asked them about their chances to outlast
coalition forces. I think they were dead only a few days after this reported
interchange.

[VOA]

Sarcastic 'secular' Saddam would never join with 'fundamentalist' Osama bump.

I guess I'm just have a "shotgun" approach about 9-11: anybody who made it happened
or rejoiced at it is on my "wanted dead or alive" poster.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

SALMAN PAK Training Camp
SALMAN PAK Training Camp
SALMAN PAK Training Camp
SALMAN PAK Training Camp

How many times does Freerepublic & Newsmax.com have to scream this at the top of our Internet Lungs before HILLARY's Minion CBS-NBC-ABC New Divisions focus in on it..?

"Why is the Major American Media avoiding the part that the SALMAN PAK Terrorist Training Camp in Iraq played in the Jet Airliner Attacks of Sept. 11th..?"

...asked Caller ALOHA RONNIE on the Judicial Watch Report Radio Show, Veterans Day Weekend-2002.

...ALOHA RONNIE is still waiting for an answer one full year later.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

"Why is the Major American Media avoiding the part that the SALMAN PAK Terrorist Training Camp in Iraq played in the Jet Airliner Attacks of Sept. 11th..?"

Liberalism/communism + minus media truth = burried hate for America

[ALOHA RONNIE]

BURIED HATE for America =

HILLARY Diane RODHAM CLINTON

[Hugin]

Remember how last week some poll showing that Fox News watchers were more likely to beleive the "false" notion that Saddam had a role in 9/11 than CNN watchers was cited as evidence of what ignorant boobs watch Fox?

[Bigun]

"Why is the Major American Media avoiding the part that the SALMAN PAK Terrorist Training Camp in Iraq played in the Jet Airliner Attacks of Sept. 11th..?"

For the EXACT same reason that the EXACT same media failed to report to the American people in 1968 that the long held American command strategy of drawing the Viet Cong out into a set piece battle so that they could be destroyed had been realized with the 1968 TET offensive! Instead they turned what was a great victory for our side into a defeat in the media.

If the "media" payed any real attention to Salman Pak the game would be over and there would be no doubt left in anyones mind as to the culpability of Saddam and his cronies. Game set and match for Bush and the Fellow travlers simply CANNOT allow that now can they?

[river rat]

This can NOT be true..
The Democrats have told us there is NO connection between Saddam and terrorists......
< /sarcasm>

On to Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then North Korea, then......

Semper Fi

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, A.P., Ronnie. Glad WND picked this up.

The Iraqis now have free speech and free press.

8 Iraq Daily: Saddam ordered training of Al-Qa'ida members  ~ Memri  | 10/16/03 | Al-Yawm Al-Aakher

Free Iraqis are not going remain silent.

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[armymarinemom]

We probably will not see much of this in the main press. You know what really bugs me is that for about a year before the war started the Iraqi WWP had a few members who would complain about Ansar Al-Islam on their website. They were afraid that the terrorist camp would bring in outsiders. In perticular the US. The PUK also had complaints about the group murdering Kurds who would not give up land around the camp area. Yet all of the liberal groups still contend that the camp was a lie.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

Perfect Post there, Bigun.

...That same reason is also the Anti-U.S. Anti-Freedom Forces leader and now...

...HILLARY's No. 1 Media Defensive Linebacker...

...WALTER CRONKITE...

...who lied to the American People about our real success during the 1968 TET Offensive.

The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.

[MJY1288]

Thanks for the ping, But somehow I doubt I'll see Dan Rather opening his nightly broadcast with this story :-)

The mainstream media would like nothing better than to see our efforts fail in Iraq and see all of our brave men and women come home without finishing what they knew they could finish, if it meant a socialist democrat would reside in the white house and further their rediculous dream of a utopian socialist society.

Thanks to FOX NEWS, the internet, Free Republic.com and people like you... the truth get out!

God Bless You!

[not_apathetic_anymore]

More than they are:P)

I was having a discussion with one of the lib's at work. They were whining that Bush went into Iraq with no evidence of ties to Al-Quesa and 911.

I said so what about Salman Pak.

Silence

Then the response....well I don't think he's a big player anyway.

I say...Salman Pak isn't a he it's an it, a training camp in Iraq with an airplane to practice on.

He says...well I don't believe that as evidence or we'd have seen it all over the news.

He hasn't brought up Iraq anymore after he got caught trying to bluff, but now he's perseverating on the environmental shortcomings of the administration.

[mtbopfuyn]

Here's one ignorant boob that's getting fed up with FNC (forget the others, there's no hope) for not bringing up more stories and researching the whole truth. Kobe 24/7 is not fair and balanced.

[MJY1288]

You make a valid point, But FOX NEWS is doing a fr better job of it than all of it's competitors. the problem they face is that people like you me and the others who are more interested in news that effects our daily lives are in the minority and they have to sell advertising slots in order to stay out front.

Unfortunately we have to suffer through their shedulr filling gossip stories to pay the bills. FOX NEWS is still by far the best