Detailing an interview with Saddam’s Ambassador to Al Queda Weekly Standards Jonathan Schanzer gives us more pieces to the puzzle of the relationship between the two. The Democrats are playing a dangerous game when they assert so confidently that there were no links prior to the beginning of the war. It would be so much easier to vote Democrat were they to stop trying to discredit the War in Iraq by claiming there were no links, that is insulting to most peoples intelligence. I know that the Chattering classes have convinced themselves that there were no links but since when have any of them ever been the center of motion in the states? The Center of motion in the states is the 70% of the population that see’s a link between Saddam and Al Queda. The Democrats want to campaign against that center? Especially when it appears increasingly likely we are right based on the amount of evidence coming in from independent sources.
Not sure why they would want to do so unless its true that they are still captured by the radicals who paraded around in the 60’s proudly condemning millions to starvation and death in Vietnam. Used to be that Democrats weren’t afraid to defend their country. Used to be that it was the Republicans who didn’t see a need to go to war. President Bush is open to attack but only from the right.
PREVIEW: Saddam’s Ambassador to al Qaeda
Al-Shamari said that importing foreign fighters to train in Iraq was part of his job in the Mukhabarat. The fighters trained in Salman Pak, a facility located some 20 miles southeast of Baghdad. He said that he had personal knowledge of 500 fighters that came through Salman Pak dating back to the late 1990s; they trained in “urban combat, explosives, and car bombs.” This account agrees with a White House Background Paper on Iraq dated September 12, 2002, which cited the “highly secret terrorist training facility in Iraq known as Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations.”
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