Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
The Jordanian Al-Zarkowi that either beheaded or lead the murderers of that unfortunate young man has for years run a terrorist TRAINING camp in North Iraq with full knowlege of Iraq intelligence.
This was alleged in Colin Powell's Feb '03 address to the United Nations. I don't remember any assertions about Al-Zarkowi running these camps though.
But if the camp Powell showed in the satellite photo was for terrorst training Sadam could have done nothing about it. As you say it was in the Northern portion of Iraq where the Kurds were being protected by our forces since the first Iraq war. Sadam did not control the area. And more importantly, if the administration really thought it was for terrorist training why was the camp not flattened immediately by Tomahawk missiles. This was only one of Powell's claims later to be proven false. Two others were the mobile chemical weapons trailers and the drones to be used for spraying them.
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