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Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists

Cal

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theHiredMansWife said:
Three members of a Palestinian terror cell who trained in Iraq's military camps

First of all, this is a post that is over three years old, linking to an article that no longer exsist.
Secondly, we already know Iraq had military camps. They had a military, remember? That's not the same thing as training terrorists.
Were there people that became terrorists after training in the military? I have no doubt. But that's not quite the same thing as state-supported terrorism.

Seriously. If this is true, Fox will have something.

I'm sorry! I'll add more laughing faces next time. Was in a hurry to leave and just ran across that old "Democratunderground" link and thought that the irony of it all was funny.

I just now went back to look it over, and there was another link under the comments. Same age, I'm sure, but the wording doesn't mention military camp, but "terrorist camp". http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=211777&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 Let me know what you think.
 

theHiredMansWife

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I think the same thing i thought earlier--

If this were legit, it would be readily available on Fox.

Have you found it on Fox, yet? Have you wondered why not?
 

Cal

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theHiredMansWife said:
I think the same thing i thought earlier--

If this were legit, it would be readily available on Fox.

Have you found it on Fox, yet? Have you wondered why not?

Hmmm...FOX search lead to this old AP story, sort of interesting. I'm going to park it here, and continue when I get back middle of week. You all have fun arguing. :)

Iraq
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/07/news_pf/Worldandnation/Jet_shell_reinforces_.shtml
Jet shell reinforces suspicions about terrorist training
©Associated Press
April 7, 2003


SALMAN PAK, Iraq -- The rusted shell of an old passenger jet sat out in a field, its tail broken off. Good for hijacking practice, U.S. Marines speculated Sunday as they examined an Iraqi training base about 20 miles south of Baghdad.

The Americans also found a full obstacle course as well as a three-story concrete tower draped with ropes, apparently for rappelling.

President Saddam Hussein's regime has said the camp, part of a larger military reservation, was used for antiterrorism training for Iraqi special forces.

But U.S. officials and others have long suspected the camp trained terrorists. Two former Iraqi military officers told the New York Times and PBS's Frontline in the fall of 2001 that Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs were brought here to practice hijacking planes and trains, planting bombs and staging assassinations. U.N. inspectors looking for biological weapons reported seeing a plane there.

Another part of the base was Saddam's main biological weapons center before the first Persian Gulf War, the U.N. inspectors learned in the 1990s. They said about 10 scientists and 100 other people worked on developing ways to deliver anthrax, ricin and other deadly substances over wide areas.

The Republican Guard 2nd Corps headquarters also is nearby, and some intelligence experts have said another camp trained young members of the Fedayeen Saddam militia in assassination, sabotage and espionage.

The military reservation sprawls next to Salman Pak, a town named for a 7th century Persian convert to Islam who was the prophet Muhammad's barber. Salman Pak, "Salman the Pure" in Farsi, died in the region, and a shrine to him in the town attracts many Muslim pilgrims.

At U.S. Central Command in Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said Marines raided the complex using information obtained from captured foreign fighters of various nations, including Egypt and Sudan.

"The nature of the work being done by some of those people we captured, their inferences about the type of training they received, all these things give us the impression that there is terrorist training that was conducted at Salman Pak," Brooks said Sunday.

He said the camp was "just one of a number of examples" of such training activity found in Iraq by coalition troops. "It reinforces the likelihood of links between this regime and external terrorist organizations," he said.

Lab complex scoured
NEAR SALMAN PAK, Iraq -- Acting on a tip from local residents, Marines on Sunday raided an abandoned branch of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission south of Baghdad and found several laboratories, gas masks, chemical suits, vats of industrial chemicals, and a map listing buildings that contained "radioactive material."

Troops from the 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, scoured the fortified government complex, but a cursory inspection revealed ordinary levels of radiation and chemical contamination. Commanders said they saw enough to call in a "sensitive site exploitation" team to conduct a thorough analysis.
 

Steve

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George W. Bush would be calling a press conference to tell the world

Setting the record straight...
Condoleezza Rice Said That Saddam Hussein Never "Had Either Direction Or Control Of 9/11." RICE: "And we have never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either, that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control of 9/11. What we have said is that this was someone who supported terrorists, helped train them. But most importantly, that this is someone who, with his animus towards the United States, with his penchant for and capability to gain weapons of mass destruction, and his obvious willingness to use them, was a threat in this region that we were not prepared to tolerate." (ABC's "Nightline," 9/16/03)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051115-1.html
 

Steve

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Seriously. If this is true, Fox will have something.

or CBS News?

Drop by drop, isolated news stories and emerging documents are eroding the popular myth that Saddam Hussein had no connections to Islamofascist terrorists.

Among the document's "Findings": "Some indications of possible Iraqi coordination with al Qaida specifically related to 9/11."

Stephen Hayes similarly remains among the few journalists excavating this huge, deliberately concealed story. Now Newsweek has nibbled at the Iraq-terror connection
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/13/opinion/main1209713.shtml
 

BBJ

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Your right, not answering my questions doesn't make you a hypocrite, it means your affraid to answer them in fear of proving yourself a hypocrite. :D As for me getting on your case for mentioning the term blog, YES I DID, and for you to say you didn't use one as a reference, then how in the world did we get on the subject if your didn't talk about one? No you didn't post a link or give the name, but what caused me to fall out of my chair in disbelief is that you used information from a blog to argue against my face to face conversation with Marines that had been there. Thats what got me excited, as for Cal posting a blog, well this is where you and I are different dis. You see I have the ability to :lol: "disagree" :lol: with people that I generally agree with. You see just because Cal, 9 times out of 10 holds the same position as myself doesn't mean that we cn't be in disagreement. BUT we still agree on this subject, I just don't use blogs as my references. SO YEAH, Cal shouldn't have posted a blog, that doesn't change my opinion on this subject.

In my opinion, for you to "beleive" that saddam wasn't routinely involved in training terroist, is naive. You don't have the slightest clue what that man was doing, I don't care what you have read! :evil:

One more thing, you don't know when saddam gave up his WMD's as you put in your last post. Right? So you "KNOW" he gave them up? Thats what you said. Lets just play your game here, IF he did indeed gave them up as you KNOW he did, why wouldn't he let the inspectors in as he was required to do by the UN? If he would have let them just do their job, and no weapons were found then he would still be in power and both his sons would still be alive. Can't wait for the spin on this one. :lol:
 

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