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of naught
Aug 2001
time: 22:34
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/07/W...inforces_.shtml
Hmmm. The plane found as described. People foreign to Iraq giving intel after having been trained there...
Perhaps you would like to try again?
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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. |
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uh Clem
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Born in the US; damned if I know where I live now
Nov 1999
time: 23:34
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Originally posted by DinoDoc
Lying about not recalling something like that? How was I doing that? |
Because you're not an ignoramus. You know good and well that Bush was touting a link between Saddam & AQ.
If you support the invasion, fine, make your case. But this act by the administration and its apologists...this "Goodness me, nobody ever said anything like that!...it's tedious and stupid. Lose it.
Last edited by uh Clem on 24-03-2004 at 19:10
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:34
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nye, despite the fact that certain right-wing agendas have tried to link AQ and Hussein, endlessly recycling the same material over and over, the FBI has discredited all of it. There are and were no known links between the Iraqi government and AQ.
Hussein did sponsor Palestinian terrorism in the 70s and 80s, and probably the 90s as well. Almost every Arab government does that, even some of our "allies." The only possible AQ operation in Iraq, however, was Ansar al-Islam, and the links between that group and AQ are debatable, especially considering AI is sponsored by the Iranians, and Shi'ites and Whabbists don't exactly get along.
I'm really amazed at the WSJ article, and I have to assume it came from their editorial section, which is notoriously slip-shod and plays fast and loss with the facts as long as they serve it's agenda. If it's from the news section of the paper, I'd be very surprised, as it has a reputation for high standards.
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24-03-2004 10:36
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