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Audacity of Truth
Confirmed: Iraq was a terrorist training center
The media will keep you in the dark about this, but thanks to Stephen Hayes, we now know it’s been confirmed that Iraq was a terrorist training center, which trained at least 8,000 terrorists between 1999 and 2002 – some with ties to Al Qaeda. Hayes reports:
THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials.
The secret training took place primarily at three camps–in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak–and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria’s GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.
The photographs and documents on Iraqi training camps come from a collection of some 2 million “exploitable items” captured in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan. They include handwritten notes, typed documents, audiotapes, videotapes, compact discs, floppy discs, and computer hard drives. Taken together, this collection could give U.S. intelligence officials and policymakers an inside look at the activities of the former Iraqi regime in the months and years before the Iraq war.
The discovery of the information on jihadist training camps in Iraq would seem to have two major consequences: It exposes the flawed assumptions of the experts and U.S. intelligence officials who told us for years that a secularist like Saddam Hussein would never work with Islamic radicals, any more than such jihadists would work with an infidel like the Iraqi dictator. It also reminds us that valuable information remains buried in the mountain of documents recovered in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past four years.
Read the whole thing. And expect it to be poohpoohed by the usual suspects, who still claim we had no reason to be there to begin with and will continue to come up with all kinds of lame excuses to try and advance that fallacy.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
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Hayes, works for The Weekly Standard. The Weekly Standard and FOX are both owned by Rupert Murdock and shill for each other. That means they are both propaganda arms of the Republican Party. The MSM tries to not speak to obvious propaganda peddlers like Hayes. Peace
Let me get this straight…
Hayes, who works for the highly partisan Republican PR outlet the “Weekly Standard”, attributes his assertions to a dozen or so un-named “officials”. Someone makes Republican Representative Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, aware of these claims and even lists some documents he should see.
Rep Hoekstra (again, REPUBLICAN chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) asks the Admin to provide the documents – documents that would be very politically helpful to a very politically troubled President – and Hoekstra is rebuffed?
Right.
This sets so many alram bells ringing about these so-called “confirming” documents that I may go deaf from the noise.
More particularly interesting is the comment by Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita. Quoting from the article: The main worry, says DiRita, is that the mainstream press might cherry-pick documents and mischaracterize their meaning. “There is always the concern that people would be chasing a lot of information good or bad, and when the Times or the Post splashes a headline about some sensational-sounding document that would seem to ‘prove’ that sanctions were working, or that Saddam was just a misunderstood patriot, or some other nonsense, we’d spend a lot of time chasing around after it.”
Hmmm. So they can’t release the documents because the alledgedly liberal Times and the Post would abuse them.
The Times, who’s great Jopurnalistic stars Judith Miller and Bob Woodward turned out to have such incestuous relationships with the Admin that they and their work is now discredited – she’s been fired, but only after the Times was so beat up over it they had to do so. Who so willingly carried water for the Bush Admin’s PR campaign during the run up to the war.
Could this by chance actually be a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black? Blaiming the Victim? Political slight of hand?
Sounds to me as if the reality is that most of the documents would actually be damaging to the Admin, and that’s why they’re not being released, and why instead we’re seeing this sudden leak of unverifiable “confirmation” hitting the right-wing PR machine.
Why didn’t they go to their buddies at the Times with it? Or CNBC? Or any of the other media outlets? What about Fox? Was this too disceditable for even Fox to run with it? Only The Weekly Standard, who nobody but the extreme right takes seriously, gets the story. I’m not buying it.
I strongly suspect this will turn out to be either a non-story, or one that will turn out to be quite the opposite of what is being presented.
We’ll have to wait and see. I won’t be holding my breath…
Ken G
Sounds like it’s already a non-story to you, Ken. Why am I not surprised?
Hayes has been on top of the AQ/Iraq connections from the start. I dare say he’s made a more convincing case to the American people than the admin has, in retrospect. But in the end, people will believe what they want to be. Saddam himself could admit to terror ties and some people still wouldn’t believe it. So be it.
I would not doubt anything that Saddam and his former regime did or will do. They are horrible people and I can’t comprehend why others have a hard time understanding this. I suspect that many liberals will say anything to try and bring shame on the Bush administration. But that is just what I think.
God Bless.
Substance refuted by how?
Thanks for informing us ST !
Good heaven’s, anyone who’s taken the least amount of time to educate themselves over the past several years knows how much Saddam has been in bed with terrorists.
For Ken to pretend that all of this his new news because of the Weekly Standard article is laughable. I’ve been bookmarking artifcles on Saddam and terrorism for a couple of years now.
I think Ken is just in a panic because he hears the air rushing out of his balloon….
these sorts of leaks are bad for national security.
On Discovery Channel on Sunday, I was watching a special, and they mentioned how easy it was for America’s enemies to get satellite photos of US installations, and to reinforce the thought they showed a clip of Saddam and his Intelligence officers.
You know, listing to the left on this board, the enemies are real dumb and can’t pick up intelligence and need their civil rights protected. Why? So they can attack us. Why? Because steve, ken, and others think some leftwing nut government will sweep into power, evidently.
Funny how any time it’s the WSJ, The Weekly Standard, or the NRO it is propaganda from the Neo-Cons and the Administration, but when it’s from Indymedia, The Nation, or GOD forbid “The Daily Kos”, it’s gospel from the mouths of intellectuals.
Tom The RedHunter is spot on….
I can feel the panicked breeze of the Liberal air rushing out of their balloon so strongly it blew my grandfathers toupee into the bean dip.
“I can feel the panicked breeze of the Liberal air rushing out of their balloon so strongly it blew my grandfathers toupee into the bean dip”
As Home would say, Doh!!
As far as the rest, the Nation to me is a far less biased source than WS. The others I am not so sure about. And as far as being panicked, I’m far from it. I’d be willing to bet money that, just from the way it’s written, most of Hayes’ report will turn out to be hot air. Any takers? I’ll go as high as a nickle…
Ken G.
Ken, try refuting the facts here, not just blowing your opinion you take as fact and expect everyone else to do so.
No taker here. 11 sources is nothing to sniff at. That’s 11 people who would’ve had to lie. That’s 11 people people like Kenwg would have to discredit. That’s 11 people that have to be attacked.
And ditto what PCD just said.
The MSM distortions, under reporting and downright misreporting pose a real threat to the future of this country. The effort is one that is played to and fed by politicians who have a stake in seeing the current administration fail.