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To: MHGinTN

Not yet, however I did one page translation of an Iraqi intelligence document saying that the Kurds told a US delegation who visited in 2002 the part of Northern Iraq under Kurdish control that Saddam is training AL Qaeda terrorists at Salman Pak.


51 posted on 03/26/2006 7:49:55 PM PST by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: jveritas

Laurie Mylroie talks about it and seems there are some other documents. (?)

"When American marines took over Salman Pak in early April 2003, they indeed
found the terrorist training camp, the airplane, and the foreign terrorists.
An American military spokesman affirmed, "The nature of the work being done
by some of those people we captured. ..gives us the impression that there is
terrorist training that was conducted at Salman Pak." The marines "inferred"
that the airplane "was used to practice hijacking," the Associated Press
reported. Saddam's apologists claim the camp was for counterterrorism
training, but that seems highly improbable.

Iraqi documents, dating from January to May 1993, suggest that Baghdad's
training of terrorists goes back over a decade - at least to the period
following Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. That training was
interrupted by the 1991 war, but appears to have resumed not long
afterwards.

These documents, leaked by a Pentagon official to Scott Wheeler of Cybercast
News Service, are posted on its Web site. Bruce Tefft, a retired CIA
counter-terrorism official who worked on Iraq; MEMRI's Nimrod Raphaeli;
Middle East scholar Walid Phares; and this author have all expressed their
confidence in the documents' authenticity. They are on official Iraqi
letterhead and are essentially a 40-page correspondence between Iraqi
intelligence and Saddam's office."


http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8453


56 posted on 03/26/2006 7:57:33 PM PST by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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