Saddam's Terror Training Camps

Documents found in Iraq and Afghanistan may be revealing that the Iraqi regime was training thousands of radical Islamic terrorists.

Roughly 2 million "exploitable items" have been found in Iraq and Afghanistan since the end of 2001. These include handwritten notes, typed documents, audiotapes, videotapes, compact discs, floppy discs, and computer hard drives. Only 2.5% of these items have been thoroughly examined. However, those that have been reviewed seem to be indicating that Saddam's elite military units trained some 8,000 terrorists from 1999 to 2002.

The secret training took place primarily at three camps--in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis in the years since the invasion.

Most of the 50,000 translated documents relate directly to weapons of mass destruction programs and scientists, says David Kay and his Iraq Survey Group.

It should be noted that this information comes from the Weekly Standard, a conservative publication. However, they claim they have confirmed "the existence and character of these documents" by eleven U.S. government officials.

Not quite something you'll see in the MSM, eh?