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Saddam's Terror Training Camps
The Weekly Standard ^ | 01/16/06 | Stephen Hayes

Posted on 01/06/2006 8:28:00 PM PST by texasmountainman

The former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists at Ramadi, Samarra and Salman-Pak over the four years immediately preceeding the U.S. invasion.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedairaq; gwot; hayes; iraq; iraqalqaeda; iraqwar; linkstoterrorism; ramadi; saddam; salmanpak; samarra; stephenhayes; terrorism; terrorists; trainingcamps; wot
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Connecting the dots. We must push this as hard as we can.
1 posted on 01/06/2006 8:28:01 PM PST by texasmountainman
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To: texasmountainman

This is very important & could cause more Americans to support the War on Terror in Iraq,

The media will probably ignore these findings so we'll have to get out the word via emails, calls to talk radio & letters to newspapers.


2 posted on 01/06/2006 8:32:06 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Salus populi suprema lex. ~ The safety of the people is the highest law. ... Cicero)
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To: texasmountainman

Mark Levin read a lot of this article on his show tonight...

I got excited listening to that...

I know that Hayes has been frustrated about the lack of evidence that he knows the White House has to back up their claims before the war, of the NEED to go to war...

Hopefully, this is the beginning of smacking the dems until they shut up!


3 posted on 01/06/2006 8:32:09 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: texasmountainman

The Marines discovered the Salman-Pak training camp on the initial push into Baghdad in 2003.
Very under-reported then, but big news!


4 posted on 01/06/2006 8:40:18 PM PST by MountainDad
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To: Txsleuth
This plus Oil for Food plus Abramoff (sp) plus Marc Rich. Only something as powerful a Able Danger could sift through the degrees of separation that protect the Dems from the evil doers. IMHO, the Dems are now in the political fight of their lives.
5 posted on 01/06/2006 8:45:36 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (It is easy to call for a pi$$ing contest when you aren't going to be in the line of fire.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I am sure the dems would characterize it that the GOP and Bush are in for the fight of THEIR lives...

but, I am with you---once this information gets out..it is gonna blow up all of the dems talking points..


6 posted on 01/06/2006 8:52:07 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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similar, and just two numbers older, alas:

New Saddam Documents Detail Terror Training
NewsMax | 1/6/06 | NewsMax
Posted on 01/06/2006 8:20:55 PM PST by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553477/posts


7 posted on 01/06/2006 8:53:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this URL -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/pledge)
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To: texasmountainman

Excellent article by Stephen Hayes.
Thank you for posting it.


"And throughout the decade, the Iraqi regime sponsored "Popular Islamic Conferences" at the al Rashid Hotel that drew the most radical Islamists from throughout the region to Baghdad. Newsweek's Christopher Dickey, who covered one of those meetings in 1993, would later write: "Islamic radicals from all over the Middle East, Africa and Asia converged on Baghdad to show their solidarity with Iraq in the face of American aggression." One speaker praised "the mujahed Saddam Hussein, who is leading this nation against the nonbelievers." Another speaker said, "Everyone has a task to do, which is to go against the American state." Dickey continued:

"Every time I hear diplomats and politicians, whether in Washington or the capitals of Europe, declare that Saddam Hussein is a "secular Baathist ideologue" who has nothing do with Islamists or with terrorist calls to jihad, I think of that afternoon and I wonder what they're talking about. If that was not a fledgling Qaeda itself at the Rashid convention, it sure was Saddam's version of it."

In the face of such evidence, Carl Levin and other critics of the Iraq war trumpet deeply flawed four-year-old DIA analyses. Shouldn't the senator instead use his influence to push for the release of Iraqi documents that will help establish what, exactly, the Iraqi regime was doing in the years before the U.S. invasion?"


8 posted on 01/06/2006 8:54:16 PM PST by dixiechick2000
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To: Txsleuth

On O'Reilly tonight, Wesley 'the democrap smug' Clark responded (to his questioner's citing Bush's growing poll numbers) that Bush's growing numbers might be a 'holidays anomoly' and that the increasing number of deaths from terrorist bombings in Iraq could turn those numbers around ... he had a smug little grin on his smarmy seditious face, BTW. Such spittle proves the democrap party has invested too heavily in encouraging the terrorists to keep up their help for the democrats' lust to power, by killing more. I used to think it was Liberalism that was the disease in need of eradication, but with the infection so prevalent in the democrap party leadership (think Rockefeller, Dorgan, Leahy, Reed, etc.) I'm leaning toward the notion that the democrap party is the prime vector for the deadly disease now manifesting as seditious, traitorous behvaior.


9 posted on 01/06/2006 8:54:45 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: dixiechick2000

Like Mark Levin said tonight on his radio show...

Levin and the other dems are trying to convince us that, even though the CIA, and other intelligence agencies from all over the world, had evidence of Saddams terrorist ties...

that Iraq is the ONLY country in the middle east and northern Africa that didn't have any interest in Islamic terrorism...or taking out America...

Right...I am gonna believe that...hehe


10 posted on 01/06/2006 9:00:47 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: Txsleuth

I dunno, I think its all just to good to be true.


11 posted on 01/06/2006 9:00:58 PM PST by TheGunny
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To: MHGinTN

Clark is someone that should have been smacked down a long time ago...especially after his horrific showing in the dem primarys...

Fox puts him on...and if I see him, I turn Fox off.


12 posted on 01/06/2006 9:03:12 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: Txsleuth

"Like Mark Levin said tonight on his radio show..."


Thank you for the synopsis of tonight's show.
He is utterly, and totally, right.

But, then...isn't he always? ;o)



13 posted on 01/06/2006 9:07:37 PM PST by dixiechick2000
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To: texasmountainman

I put this in the weekly read area of our web over at mfvov.


14 posted on 01/06/2006 9:12:01 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: TheGunny

I kinda see it the other way around..

It is about time...because I think that Saddam had a reason to want to kill Americans...he had the money, the contacts...and the TIME to hide the evidence of such a program..

I know, though, I feel the same way as you do...whenever I hear Hayes or other speak about what they believe happened..and yet they don't have the tangible proof...maybe it will be found soon.


15 posted on 01/06/2006 9:12:44 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: texasmountainman
There are over a million documents and only a part of them have been translated. It sounds like getting good translators is a major problem all the way across the board. I have heard this on other fronts such as having people be able to translate what is being said over cell phones, etc. How long would it take to train intelligent trustworthy people to learn their language, speaking and/or writing? Shouldn't we have a huge drive of training programs that can pop people out who are savvy in their languages asap? If the WOT is going to take years we need to start training people to translate what they are saying and writing. I have heard part of the problem is that the foreign people who apply for the jobs are not trustworthy.
16 posted on 01/06/2006 9:16:48 PM PST by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: texasmountainman

Oh boy, this ain't gonna set well with the demonRATS, or their PR arm - the MSM.


17 posted on 01/06/2006 9:23:06 PM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Txsleuth

Here's a 'clue': when the Marines overran Salman Pak, reems of documentation (and a modern jet fuselage) were found. The official reason these documents have not come fully to light yet is that it takes so much time to get the translations finished then vetted before relasing for public consumption. In due course the democrap leadership will have the rope firmly around their seditious necks and the doorway of truth will drop open for their destruction. Think about it: when a name of an 9/11 hijacker shows up on the roles of terrorists trained at Salman Pak, how dead will the democrap party's last too many months campaign to discredit going into to depose Saddam become??? The carcass of the democrap party will stink so bad that we may be cursed with too many Republicans in the House and Senate.


18 posted on 01/06/2006 9:23:45 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

I feel the same anticipation about witnessing Carl Levin, and the others just wetting their pants...

They are constantly whining about Bush not going to foreign leaders for help in Iraq...but, they are also calling those leaders liars...because they all claimed the same thing about WMDS...


19 posted on 01/06/2006 9:28:26 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: Bellflower

I know one thing...if I had a high school or college aged child...I would encourage them to study those languages..because they would be able to always find work in Washington.


20 posted on 01/06/2006 9:30:03 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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