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To: Ilaine who wrote (41244)8/31/2002 9:52:34 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Federation of American Scientists details Iraq's known WMD facilities:

fas.org



To: Ilaine who wrote (41244)8/31/2002 10:39:15 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
More about Islamists training in a Boeing 707 at Salman Pak, Iraq, prior to 9/11:

The source on this is difficult to assess, at best, CB. I note at the bottom the translation help acknowledged by some folk who fled Iraq. Do you have any reason to believe what they say, assuming they are the source of this? Other than this report itself?

And, if as some have said, this story has circulated for sometime, could all the stories be traced back to one source? Or do we have multiples sources?

And when does the story first appear in the media. The story itself says that something called the Iraqi National Congress was told of this in September 2000 but, if it only appeared in the public media in late November of last year, that's quite different from a public record since 2000.

Any thoughts?



To: Ilaine who wrote (41244)9/1/2002 12:50:49 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Hi John - a Lexis-Nexis search in world news database using input subject Iraq and input search term ("Salman Pak" AND 707) gives 27 documents, 4 of which predate 9/11. The most recent prior to 9/11 is the Sunday Times (which I believe is the UK Times), 1/25/98, "Deadly Games in the Desert," author William Shawcross.

I am not in graduate school this semester so can't access the articles for free at this time.