Recruits were also trained how to resist interrogation and provide false information - Nasiri's mentor at the camps, Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, would go on to provide false evidence of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq after he was captured by the US.
See post #6,,,,I wonder if this is designed to affect Tony Blair's Legacy.....?
Maybe. But it doesn't mean there wasn't real evidence of such links. When I saw this was from the BBC, the first thing I thought was "I wonder if any of this is true"?
I noticed that BBC line... also noticed the article uses a source by the name of former CIA employee Michael Scheuer of the Jamestown Foundation. I wonder if he was the source of that line about al-Libby.
1998 : (BIN LADEN ASKS IRAQ FOR ADVANCED WEAPONS INCLUDING CBW AND "POISONS" ACCORDING TO INTEL FROM VARIOUS SOURCES - See AL QAEDA'S IBN AL-SHAYKH AL-LIBI) Then we have the smoking vial, the intelligence that a link-up between the maniacs of al Qaeda with the resources of the Baathist terror-state [Iraq] was real, and that it could lead to attacks more devastating than 9/11: 26. During a custodial interview, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi [a senior al Qaeda operative] said he was told by an al Qaeda associate that he was tasked to travel to Iraq (1998) to establish a relationship with Iraqi intelligence to obtain poisons and gases training. After the USS Cole bombing in 2000, two al Qaeda operatives were sent to Iraq for CBW-related [Chemical and Biological Weapons] training beginning in Dec 2000. Iraqi intelligence was "encouraged" after the embassy and USS Cole bombings to provide this training. The analysis of this report follows. CIA maintains that Ibn al-Shaykh's [Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi a senior al Qaeda operative's] timeline is consistent with other sensitive reporting indicating that bin Laden asked Iraq in 1998 for advanced weapons, including CBW and "poisons." Again, all this is amazing stuff: a phenomenally important story, if true. "-------- http://www.andrewsullivan.com/