The independent Iraqi weekly Al-Yawm Al-Aakher says training of Al-Qa'ida members, operating under the orders of Saddam's Presidential Palace, took place in Iraq two months before the September 11 attacks:
An Iraqi officer [reports that] a Land Cruiser belonging to the Personal Security Force (Al-Amn Al-Khass, responsible for the protection of Saddam Hussein) arrived and a senior officer from the Presidential Palace stepped out of it..."A few days later, about 100 trainees arrived. They were a mixture of Arabs, Arabs from the Peninsula [Saudi Arabia], Muslim Afghans, and other Muslims from various parts of the world. They were divided into two groups,... and the second...was the group that was trained to hijack airplanes. The training was under the direct supervision of major general (M. DH. L)...who now serves as a police commander in one of the provinces. Upon the completion of the training most of them left Iraq, while the others stayed in the country through the last battle in Baghdad against the coalition forces.
Read it all, this could be a smoking gun or directions toward one or more of them. Then again, maybe it's the New Iraqi Free Press National Enquirer. |
