http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/13/180930.shtml
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001
"They are trained to jump all at one time, and make a declaration: ‘We are going to take over the plane! And nobody move, don't move, don't make any moves!’” a former Iraqi Army officer told PBS and the New York Times recently when describing a terrorist training camp near Baghdad.
"[T]here's a real whole 707 plane, a whole real plane, standing in the middle of the training area in this camp,” said Sabah Khodada, a former captain who defected from Saddam Hussein’s army after 10 years of service. The camp, said Khodada, was at a location called Salman Pak about 20 miles southeast of the Iraqi capital.
WHEN will the Salman Pak story be told? Why has no one thought to investigate how it was that four separate groups of Arab hijackers were able to PERFECTLY execute hijackings of four large passenger jets, armed with nothing but box cutters? This took a large amount of training and practice, which surely was not done in the U.S. Last time I looked, Osama did not have a 707 parked at any of his camps in Afghanistan. I've been asking this question ever since 9/11: WHERE DID THEY GET THE TRAINING? WHERE DID THEY PRACTICE? I don't know that it had anything to do with Salman Pak, but I sure as hell would appreciate SOMEBODY investigating this sometime!