Originally Posted By: whomod
As for your terrorist camps found in Iraq, you're referring to the Ansar al-Islam guerrillas WHO HAD CAMPS IN THE NORTHERN NO-FLY ZONE under our control and clearly away from Sadaam Hussein's control.


 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
No, I'm talking about camps like the one found in Salman Pak (about 20 miles south of Baghdad) that were being run by some in Saddam's own elite army corps. You know, the ones that Saddam's military claimed was for anti-terrorism training of their own soldiers when, in fact, most at the camp were terrorists from other nations being trained in such things as airplane hijackings.


Whomod, you're lying as usual.

I posted an article in its entirety early on in these discussions from a January 2003 issue of the New York Times saying Saddam Hussein was hiring Al Qaida mercenaries to fight the Kurds in Northern Iraq.

That's a nice twisting of the facts on your part.

That's in addition to video footage on 60 Minutes and elsewhere of terrorist training camps in Iraq, including a grounded aircraft used for terrorist training exercises.

Neither one of these sources are ones I'd label as participants in right wing media propaganda. Left wing, definitely, but definitely not right.

There are other dealings on record between Bin Ladin and Saddam Hussein. I'll grant that there are not tons of dealings between them, but there certainly was some level of cooperation between Saddam and Al Qaeda.