"Powell said Zarqawi had both planned the October 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and set up a camp in Ansar al-Islam’s territory in northeastern Iraq to train terrorists in the use of chemical weapons. Powell added that senior Iraqi and al-Qaeda leaders had met at least eight times since the early 1990s."
Hasn't this Zarqawi fellow been in the news lately?
"In a series of television interviews broadcast on the program Frontline, several former Iraqi military officers described Salman Pak as a highly secret terrorist training location for both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs. Sabah Khodada, a captain in the Iraqi army from 1982 to 1992, said:
Training includes hijacking and kidnapping of airplanes, trains, public buses, and planting explosives in cities, assassinations. And the training also includes how to prepare for suicidal operations. For example, they will train them how to belt themselves with explosives and jump in a place and explode themselves."
"Khodada also confirmed numerous press reports that Salman Pak had an entire Boeing 707 jetliner that was used for training in hijacking techniques — from smuggling weapons on board to methods for overpowering the crew and terrorizing passengers into cowed submission."
"In the time since the September 11 attacks in the United States, intelligence reports have confirmed that al Qaeda terrorists escaping from Afghanistan are now present in Iraq."