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Quote by: rdnor how about a little training complex in Salman Pac ? Somthing about training hijackers ..I believe. |
Oh goodie, here we go again. Salmon Pak, is it now? And this is based on... of course, two Iraqi defectors, Sabah Khodada and Abu Zeinab, brought out of the cold by... you guessed it... one Ahmed Chalabi.
Salmon Pak was not a terrorist training camp, it was a
counter-terrorist training camp because Iraq wasn't in collusion with al-Qaeda, it was being tormented by them. The only al-Qaeda connected terrorist camp in Iraq was that of Ansar al-Islam, in Kurdish northern Iraq hear the Iranian border, supplied by the Iranians, virilantly opposed to Saddam Hussein... and protected from Baghdad by the American no-fly zone.
--"a former CIA station chief and a former military intelligence analyst said that the camp near Salman Pak had been built not for terrorism training but for counter-terrorism training. In the mid-eighties, Islamic terrorists were routinely hijacking aircraft. In 1986, an Iraqi airliner was seized by pro-Iranian extremists and crashed, after a hand grenade was triggered, killing at least sixty-five people... Iraq then sought assistance from the West, and got what it wanted from Britain's MI6. The CIA offered similar training in counter-terrorism throughout the Middle East. "We were helping our allies everywhere we had a liaison," the former station chief told me."-- --"The agent relied on an interpreter supplied by Chalabi's people. Last summer, the DIA report, which was classified, was leaked. In a detailed account, the London Times described how the defector (Khodada)
had trained with Al Qaeda terrorists in the late nineteen-nineties at secret camps in Iraq, how the Iraqis received instructions in the use of chemical and biological weapons, and how the defector was given a new identity and relocated. A month later, however, a team of CIA agents went to interview the man with their own interpreter. "He says, 'No, that's not what I said'," the former intelligence official told me. "He said, 'I worked at a fedayeen camp; it wasn't Al Qaeda.' He never saw any chemical or biological training." Afterward, the former official said, "the CIA sent out a piece of paper saying that [the previous reporting] was incorrect. They put it in writing." But the CIA rebuttal, like the original report, was classified. "I remember wondering whether this one would leak and correct the earlier, invalid leak. Of course, it didn't."-- --"The former intelligence official continued, explaining one of the reasons why he quit his job was his sense that the people around Bush "were using the intelligence from the CIA and other agencies only when it fit their agenda." If it didn't fit their theory, they weren't interested, he added."--
Here's the relevant extract from the US Senate Committee on Intelligence report. That's the
Republican led,
pro-Bush, US Senate Committee...
--"The Salman Pak facility outside Baghdad was an unconventional warfare training facility used by the IIS and Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen troops to train its officers for counterterrorism operations against regime opponents. The facility contained a village mockup for urban combat training and a derelict commercial aircraft."--
A Russian built Tupolev 154, by the way, not a 707. So once again, what we have is the false information brought to the administration by Ahmed Chalabi,
over the objections of our own CIA.
But heck, don't believe me, rdnor. Just ask yourself the following question: With things going so badly in Iraq, with American's
disapproval of Bush's War in Iraq up to 65%, with the administration desperate to justify the continuing conflict...
...how come we haven't heard diddlyspit about Salmon Pak, except on conservative chat boards?
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Quote by: rdnor Do not fall for the antiamerican anti Bush BS being spouted by al jazeera and the American press . People that do, fall in the category of Lennin's useful idiots . |
Yep, they sure do. The useful idiots fell for all of Bush's false BS about why we should invade Iraq and what a swell idea it was.
Oh, and rdnor, it's bin Laden, not binlain. If you're going to speculate on someone, you might want to get his name right. People might think you don't know what the heck you're talking about.
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