Saddam and the Terrorists
You won’t hear too much, if any, of this in the main stream media.
The left would love you to believe that Saddam not only had no weapons of mass destruction but also that he had no connection to terrorists. If that were true, we would say “Therefore, the war with Iraq was a distraction to the war on terror, a Bush family vendetta… Bring on the impeachment hearings!”
Unfortunately, if you believe that to be reality, you probably already “own” a number of bridges and some very lovely “waterfront” property in central Southern Florida.
WMD issues aside (we’ve discussed them before), we now have solid evidence of Saddam’s terrorist training camps. According to The Weekly Standard, “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.”
Also, according to statements made by The Weekly Standard report:
Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda.
There is no question about the fact that [Ansar al Islam, the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group that operated in northern Iraq,] had reach into Baghdad. There was an intelligence connection between that group and the regime, a financial connection between that group and the regime, and there was an equipment connection.
The full article is linked here: PREVIEW: Saddam’s Terror Training Camps
Another good article, also from The Weekly Standard, covering related information on Ansar al Islam is Who Are Those Guys?.
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