From Weekly Standard: Saddam's Terror Training Camps proven
Proven link between Saddam and Terrorists - dispute this Bush bashers....
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It looks as if the liberal party is about to get busted up.
For how long now have we had to read about how Saddam and his regime were no threat to the U.S.A.? A certain clueless old self-promoting former military officer (who doesn't deserve the title or the respect it should command) has told us repeatedly that Saddam was no threat to the west, and that Bush went into Iraq for bogus reasons so many times we've all gotten sick of it.
Unfortunately, I hope that the crow that individual is about to eat settles well in his stomach and doesn't take him off whatever diet he's been mandated to.
The Weekly Standard has an article coming in the next issue that should put an end -- once and for all -- to any statements that Saddam was not helping terrorists, and wasn't a threat to the U.S. or it's interests.
Snippets appear below. Headline is linked. Please see original for complete story.
Saddam's Terror Training Camps
What the documents captured from the former Iraqi regime reveal--and why they should all be made public.
by Stephen F. Hayes
01/16/2006, Volume 011, Issue 17
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.
... much more at original article please see original for complete story.
Meanwhile, again, I hope some folks enjoy the crow they are going to be eating over this issue. I'm sure that it'll be a while before it makes it to the Main Stream Media, and of course The Weekly Standard and Fox News Channel don't count at all. Until it's on CBS with Dan Rather giving you the scoop using faked documents, or in the New York Times or Washington Post, it's not news, and isn't real, right?!
Too bad, this appears to be real, and very bad for the Bush bashers.
The good news is that we didn't wait, we did go into Iraq, and we have shutdown the camps, and ended the line of money and support that was flowing from Saddam to these swine and scum. The same would not be true if left with some certain doves on the liberal side of the aisle in charge of our defense, both homeland and internationally.
For how long now have we had to read about how Saddam and his regime were no threat to the U.S.A.? A certain clueless old self-promoting former military officer (who doesn't deserve the title or the respect it should command) has told us repeatedly that Saddam was no threat to the west, and that Bush went into Iraq for bogus reasons so many times we've all gotten sick of it.
Unfortunately, I hope that the crow that individual is about to eat settles well in his stomach and doesn't take him off whatever diet he's been mandated to.
The Weekly Standard has an article coming in the next issue that should put an end -- once and for all -- to any statements that Saddam was not helping terrorists, and wasn't a threat to the U.S. or it's interests.
Snippets appear below. Headline is linked. Please see original for complete story.
Saddam's Terror Training Camps
What the documents captured from the former Iraqi regime reveal--and why they should all be made public.
by Stephen F. Hayes
01/16/2006, Volume 011, Issue 17
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.
... much more at original article please see original for complete story.
Meanwhile, again, I hope some folks enjoy the crow they are going to be eating over this issue. I'm sure that it'll be a while before it makes it to the Main Stream Media, and of course The Weekly Standard and Fox News Channel don't count at all. Until it's on CBS with Dan Rather giving you the scoop using faked documents, or in the New York Times or Washington Post, it's not news, and isn't real, right?!
Too bad, this appears to be real, and very bad for the Bush bashers.
The good news is that we didn't wait, we did go into Iraq, and we have shutdown the camps, and ended the line of money and support that was flowing from Saddam to these swine and scum. The same would not be true if left with some certain doves on the liberal side of the aisle in charge of our defense, both homeland and internationally.
