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You may have missed the reporting from Ollie North, as he rode with the MArines who took Salman Pak. He reproted things regarding the presence of 'foreigners' at that training camp that only Fox aired and then were quickly hushed. Salman Pak has been exposed for more than two years prior to the hostilities. Even Rush Limbaugh had a sattelite visual showing the fuselage of a modern jet at Slman Pak with accompanying story of the 'trainees'. A military interpreter/interrogator who reported the data from interviews he had with Iraqis was fired by the powers that be for sharing information on the al Qaeda connection via Salman Pak. I cannot recall his name, but I'm sure there are Freepers who know to whom I refer.

"Salman Pak has been exposed for more than two years prior to the hostilities." ~ MHGinTN

Here's an item. I'm looking for more on this in my personal computer archives and will post it in this thread if and when I find it.

Monday, July 28, 2003 12:49 p.m. EDT -NewsMax.com

Congressional Probers Ignored Evidence of Iraq-9/11 Link

The attorney who won a $64 million federal court judgment just two months ago in a case alleging that Iraq played a significant role in the 9/11 attacks was never contacted by congressional probers who were supposedly investigating the disaster.

Attorney James Beasley disputed the 9/11 committee's finding that there was no tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda, telling NewsMax.com on Monday, "There's a ton of stuff" that establishes the connection.

Beasley hinted that the selective review may be an attempt by some members of Congress to cover their tracks, explaining, "I'm not really sure what political motivation these guys have ... except that some of them knew about all this stuff before 9/11 and they're the same people who have concluded there's no connection between 9/11 and Iraq."

On May 7, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Harold Baer ruled that attorney Beasley and his legal team had presented enough evidence to convince a "reasonable jury" that Iraq played a material role in the deadly attacks.

Beasley's evidence included accounts from Czech government officials who continue to insist over CIA objections that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta indeed met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague five months before the attacks.

"We talked to the Czech ambassador to the U.S., the guy who kicked out [Iraqi ambassador to the Czech Republic] Ahmad al Ani two weeks after he met with Atta," Beasley told NewsMax. "He's absolutely sure that they met."

The Philadelphia attorney also called upon former CIA Director James Woolsey, who testified that he interviewed two terrorist instructors who say they trained radical Islamists at the south Baghdad terrorist training camp, Salman Pak.

Their regimen included practice sessions on how to hijack U.S.
commercial airliners using the exact methods employed on 9/11.

In separate testimony introduced in the case, Sabah Khodada, a Salman Pak instructor who defected to the U.S. in May 2000, said that his first reaction upon learning how the World Trade Center had been destroyed was "This was done by graduates of Salman Pak."

Last week, former Georgia Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a 9/11 committee member, dismissed out of hand any evidence of a tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda, saying he accepted the denials from Osama bin Laden's camp.

"There's no connection, and that's been confirmed by bin Laden's terrorist followers," Cleland told reporters last Wednesday.

Sen Jon Corzine, D-N.J., echoed Cleland on Sunday, telling WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, "There's nothing about any Iraq-al-Qaeda connection in the 9/11 report."

Attorney Beasley also told NewsMax that a separate probe by the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks had yet to contact his office.

Al-Qaeda chief told us Iraq supplied WMD material:
USSMH.COM.AU ^ | http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/09/1060360536966.html
August 9, 2003
Posted on 08/09/2003 5:35 AM EDT by Aeronaut
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960971/posts

A high-ranking al-Qaeda operative in custody disclosed that Iraq supplied the Islamist militant group with material to build chemical and biological weapons, the White House said today.

"A senior al-Qaeda terrorist, now detained, who had been responsible for al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, reports that al-Qaeda was intent on obtaining (weapons of mass destruction) assistance from Iraq," the White House said in a report. ....

The Bush administration cited links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Baath party regime as justification for attacking Iraq to oust Saddam. The administration also insisted Saddam had chemical and biological weapons and was pursuing nuclear weapons.

The report quoted the unnamed prisoner as saying al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden turned to Iraq after concluding his group could not produce chemical or biological weapons on its own in Afghanistan.

"Iraq agreed to provide chemical and biological weapons training for two al-Qaeda associates starting in December 2000," the report said.

"Senior al-Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi came to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment, along with approximately two dozen al-Qaeda terrorist associates.

"This group stayed in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq and plotted terrorist attacks around the world."

The report, quoting the State Department, also says the fallen regime of Saddam Hussein "provided material assistance to Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad".

The Saddam regime, says the report, "posed a threat to the security of the United States and the world. With the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, a leader who pursued, used and possessed weapons of mass destruction is no longer in power." ...