Originally posted by spgoode:
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.



http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3070438/

Some highlights....
The battle against the so-called Ansar al-Islam is finished militarily,? said Talabani, the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two Kurdish groups that controls northern Iraq.
In the gulf state of Qatar, the wartime base of the U.S. Central Command, U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks said U.S. and Kurdish forces had destroyed a massive ?terrorist facility? operated by Ansar al-Islam.
Under heavy security, Talabani toured the villages of Tawela and Biyara, where an estimated 700 members of Ansar al-Islam forced the local population to adhere to their austere brand of Islam, much like the Taliban in Afghanistan.
While scores of militants were killed in the battle, Talabani acknowledged many were not found during a search of the site. Asked whether any leaders of Ansar al-Islam had been captured, he said, ?They escaped.?
?Perhaps there will remain some remnants of the terrorists in towns and villages,? Talabani said. ?We are looking for them.?
The United States has placed Ansar al-Islam on its list of terrorist organizations. U.S. officials allege the group maintains ties with Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaida terror network and receives some support from Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In a speech before the U.N. Security Council in February, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented what he said was evidence linking Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a chief bin Laden lieutenant, to an Ansar al-Islam camp in northern Iraq. Citing intelligence sources, Powell said a representative of Saddam had offered Ansar al-Islam a ?safe haven? in the region."

al-Zarqawi is named at the end.
We came for this camp and killed 65-300 terrorist but he and some other leaders got away....to later blow up hundreds in Madrid and BEHEADED Nick Berg.

This camp was in N. Iraq in the no-fly zone. Sadam knew of the camp...he PERMITTED IT. He would not eliminate it on his own. The Kurds were affraid to touch it. Sadam would have atacked us or the Kurds had we tried to take it out.

BY MY DEFINITION...THIS IS HARBORING TERRORISTS...
SADAM HARBORED TERRORISTS
SADAM HARBORED al-Zarqawi. Remember he got medical care IN BAGHDAD...
THIS CAMP EXISTED BEFORE 9/11
INTERVIEWS of captives in MADRID say that attck was DELAYED by 9/11...
WHAT do we not get here people....???




Last edited by Dan Nixon; 05/14/04 11:25 PM.
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