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Defectors detail Saddam's agents of terror
SF Chronicle ^ | 11-8-01 | Chris Hedges

Posted on 11/08/2001 3:59:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Two defectors from Iraqi intelligence said yesterday that they had worked for several years at a secret Iraqi government camp that had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995.

They said the training in the camp, south of Baghdad, was intended for carrying out attacks against neighboring countries and possibly Europe and the United States.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedairaq; iraq; iraqalqaeda; terrorism; trainingcamp; trainingcamps

1 posted on 11/08/2001 3:59:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 11/08/2001 4:05:12 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis
Unlike Afghan Saddam has huge targets to Bomb
3 posted on 11/08/2001 4:08:22 AM PST by scooby321
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...about a lanky German who worked in the biological unit, he was told that he was "the man who caused all our problems in 1991."

I doubt the German caused all their problems in 1991. They are just too fearful or dumb to admit that Saddam caused their problems.

4 posted on 11/08/2001 4:15:05 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The are telling us something we strongly believed and now, it is time to do something about it. No slack for Say-Damn.
5 posted on 11/08/2001 4:18:54 AM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gunning for Saddam

Just a reminder tonight on Frontline "Gunning for Saddam"

6 posted on 11/08/2001 4:53:57 AM PST by dtom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
it is clear that Taliban is step 1 and Iraq is perhaps step 2
7 posted on 11/08/2001 5:27:37 AM PST by Red Jones
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