Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility at Salman Pak (near Baghdad), where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations.
Terrorists from around the world rehearsed airline hijackings aboard a parked Boeing 707 that bore an eerie resemblance to what transpired on 9/11.
"We could see them train around the fuselage," one of the defectors, a five-year veteran of the camp, told the paper. "We could see them practice taking over the plane."
CIA Director James Woolsey is apparently convinced it was used to rehearse Sept. 11-style hijackings. In late November he told Fox News Channel's Laurie Dhue:
"We know that at Salman Pak, on the southern edge of Baghdad, five different eyewitnesses - three Iraqi defectors and two American U.N. inspectors - have said - and now there are aerial photographs to show it - a Boeing 707 that was used for training of hijackers, including non-Iraqi hijackers trained very secretly to take over airplanes with knives."
http://cshink.com/salman_pak.htm
I do remember reading about the parked Boeing 707 and the sugestion this was used for terrorist training, but the story 'sort of went away and died' didn't it?
Thanks for the link.