Iraqi paper says Fedayeen supervised hijack drills in summer 2001

[charrison]

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Saddam Hussein ordered the training of al-Qaida members two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to an independent Iraqi weekly.

The Fedayeen, under the command of Saddam's late son Uday, directly supervised 100 al-Qaida fighters who were split into two groups, reported Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, citing an Iraqi officer identified by the initial L.

One group went to Al-Nahrawan and the second to Salman Pak, near Baghdad, where they were trained to hijack airplanes, the officer said in an article translated by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

According to the testimony of Iraqi military defector Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, Iraqi intelligence had a Boeing 707 fuselage at Salman Pak used to train groups how to hijack planes without weapons. His claims were consistent with commercial satellite photos showing the fuselage. Saddam's regime insisted to U.N. inspectors Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces.

 

[Witling]

It would be an exageration to say that the link site is conservative. I think the picture of JFK in the cross hairs of a rifle sight was a little over the top.

 

[KenGr]

Originally posted by: Whitling
It would be an exageration to say that the link site is conservative. I think the picture of JFK in the cross hairs of a rifle sight was a little over the top.

I think that's actually an ad for some assasination conspiracy book. However, the heavy reliance on Pat Buchanan's byline is a more reliable clue to the slant of WorldNetDaily.

The article is probably accurate in that it reports what was reported in an Iraqi paper. I understand hundreds of independent newspapers have sprung up in Iraq and I would guess the level of accuracy and reliability is still a bit questionable.

 

[JackStorm]

Bin laden has said on a few occations that he considers the Baath party infidels and renegates, since they haven't exactly been fallowing Bin ladens idea of how a muslim should act..So I highly doubt Al Qaeda has any direct connection to hussein or this party. But who knows, maybe lil Uday was ploting things without his fathers knowledge.

Also, it's become quite clear that there are 2 kinds of factions (atlest. And I'm talking mainly about the big ones here) that are fighting in iraq, both against the American forces and against each other (mostly politicly though). I'm partly refering to the death of the Ayatollah, which looked an awful lot like the work of Baath party loyalists. Which I'm pretty sure don't want an Islamic state anymore then they want the Americans there.

 

[tnitsuj]

Originally posted by: charrison
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Saddam Hussein ordered the training of al-Qaida members two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to an independent Iraqi weekly.

The Fedayeen, under the command of Saddam's late son Uday, directly supervised 100 al-Qaida fighters who were split into two groups, reported Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, citing an Iraqi officer identified by the initial L.

One group went to Al-Nahrawan and the second to Salman Pak, near Baghdad, where they were trained to hijack airplanes, the officer said in an article translated by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

According to the testimony of Iraqi military defector Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, Iraqi intelligence had a Boeing 707 fuselage at Salman Pak used to train groups how to hijack planes without weapons. His claims were consistent with commercial satellite photos showing the fuselage. Saddam's regime insisted to U.N. inspectors Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces.

Ummm.. I will wait until I see it in a real newspaper. Also, if this were true why wouldn't the administration be heralding it far and wide?

 

[Gaard]

I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

 

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

Ah, my mistake. It would appear I'm guilty of assuming again.

 

[SViscusi]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

Have you ever seen independent verification of the fuselage? I haven't. Every mention of it has come from one source, this Iraqi defector.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SViscusi

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

Have you ever seen independent verification of the fuselage? I haven't. Every mention of it has come from one source, this Iraqi defector.

Well Scott Ritter visited and there are sat photos of it.

 

[SViscusi]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SViscusi

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

Have you ever seen independent verification of the fuselage? I haven't. Every mention of it has come from one source, this Iraqi defector.

Well Scott Ritter visited and there are sat photos of it.

Was this when he was a weapons inspector?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SViscusi

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: SViscusi

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Gaard
I was under the impression the hijackers were in the States for quite a long time. Flight school and stuff. Anybody else remember this.

It does not say they are the ones that did the hijacking on 9/11.

The 707 fuslage mentioned does exist....

Have you ever seen independent verification of the fuselage? I haven't. Every mention of it has come from one source, this Iraqi defector.

Well Scott Ritter visited and there are sat photos of it.

Was this when he was a weapons inspector?

This was his trip to iraq before the war.

 

[SViscusi]

Originally posted by: charrison

This was his trip to iraq before the war.

Ah okay. I wonder why this wasn't publisized more then. It seems that would be damning evidence if true.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: SViscusi

Originally posted by: charrison

This was his trip to iraq before the war.

Ah okay. I wonder why this wasn't publisized more then. It seems that would be damning evidence if true.

It had coverage, but of course it was said to an anti-hijack training facility.


Looking for old links now....