Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:38:41
ATTENTION MOVE-ON, DEMOCRATS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO SWEARS SADDAM WASN’T INVOLVED IN TERRORISM
Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.
The secret training took place primarily at three camps--in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak--and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria’s GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.
The photographs and documents on Iraqi training camps come from a collection of some 2 million “exploitable items” captured in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan. They include handwritten notes, typed documents, audiotapes, videotapes, compact discs, floppy discs, and computer hard drives. Taken together, this collection could give U.S. intelligence officials and policymakers an inside look at the activities of the former Iraqi regime in the months and years before the Iraq war.
The discovery of the information on jihadist training camps in Iraq would seem to have two major consequences: It exposes the flawed assumptions of the experts and U.S. intelligence officials who told us for years that a secularist like Saddam Hussein would never work with Islamic radicals, any more than such jihadists would work with an infidel like the Iraqi dictator. It also reminds us that valuable information remains buried in the mountain of documents recovered in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past four years.
You may apologize at your leisure. If you have any intellectual honesty in you...you’ll form a line and begin apologizing immediately.
Posted by JimK at 01:38 AM on January 08, 2006
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#2 Posted by davidst 
on 01/08 at 03:52 AM -
Oh, but the weekly standard published the story. They’re a right wing outlet. I’m sure it’s all BS</devils advocate>
Btw, I started my first blog! So far I’ve managed one one post per day. Check it out if you have time.
#3 Posted by chrisbg99 on 01/08 at 04:16 AM -
You work for Planet GameCube? That’s pretty cool.
And um, lies!
#5 Posted by davidst on 01/08 at 04:39 AM -
Then again, I guess we are the most popular non commercial nintendo site on the net.
These days I don’t do much for PGC. I mostly go to E3 and help out there and write a few editorials and reviews a year. I let the enthusiastic new guys handle all the news (and the few old guys who are still that enthusiastic).
Btw, because of this post, I finally started a “sources” folder on my harddrive (where I copy the article and a current link to it in case I want to bust it out some time in the future). Should have started that a long time ago.
#6 Posted by Drumwaster on 01/08 at 07:48 PM -
If you have any intellectual honesty in you…
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#7 Posted by ironmaiden on 01/08 at 09:08 PM -
Sorry to have been away for awhile. Had the C drive crash, and needed to replace it, then also got Windows XP to update, and then the new digital internet I had installed wasn’t working. Finally got it all together last week, but have been pretty busy. I am glad to be back among the “cyber” world. The info has been out for quite a while about the info we are finding amongst Saddam’s and his minions papers, etc. It is no wonder that this info is not getting out because it disproves BIG TIME, that the President didn’t lie about Saddam’s connection to Al-Queda. Now, I am not saying he was in on the Sept. 11th attacks, but he definitely was training future terrorists, and was encouraging in any way attacks on Americans and American interests. Too bad we can only get info on blogs like this or thru other news media that will print the truth, no matter who it may be. Also Jim, thought you might like to know a little fact is that Sen. McCain got a lot of donations from Indian tribes, who are exempt from the McCain-Feingold law. I may live in Arizona, but if the choice came down to vote for Pres. between McCain and say Joe Lieberman, Lieberman would get my vote. We may not agree on some social issues, but at least when I vote for him I know what I would be getting, not a chameleon (sp?).
#8 Posted by Drumwaster on 01/09 at 01:03 AM -
Now, I am not saying he was in on the Sept. 11th attacks
This isn’t a “Global War ONLY on Those Who Executed The Attacks Of 9/11”, any more than WW2 was an attack ONLY on those who had carried out the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
It’s a war on Terror and Saddam was involved in international terrorism right up to those bushy eyebrows.
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#9 Posted by Drumwaster on 01/09 at 01:05 AM -
Oh, please understand that I am in no way attacking you, iron. I am agreeing with you and offering an additional argument in support of the point that it doesn’t matter that Saddam might or might not have been involved specifically in 9/11, since that wasn’t why we went after him.
Clearing the record, just in case…
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