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To: combjelly who wrote (268588)	1/14/2006 12:46:20 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572164

It's likely a Tu-154 freerepublic.com

To: combjelly who wrote (268588)	1/14/2006 1:08:09 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572164

I think we've got a couple of similar aircraft fueselage training setups here and some around the world. They're to train the agents in how to deal with hijackings. dmi.mindfireis.com Of course, with Saddam, they MUST have been for training terrorists HOW to hijjack!

To: combjelly who wrote (268588)	1/14/2006 2:38:39 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572164

Keep dreaming that your terrorist friends really aren't dangerous and that Saddam was pure as the driven snow. mysanantonio.com Camp may have taught dirty deeds to terrorists Web Posted: 04/07/2003 12:00 AM CDT Ravi Nessman SALMAN PAK, Iraq — The rusted shell of an old passenger jet sat out in a field, its tail broken off. Good for hijacking practice, U.S. Marines speculated Sunday as they examined an Iraqi training base about 20 miles south of Baghdad. The Americans also found a full obstacle course — with wooden walls and other barriers to be climbed over or crawled under — as well as a three-story concrete tower draped with ropes, apparently for rappelling. President Saddam Hussein's government has said the camp, part of a larger military reservation in a bend of the Tigris River, was used for anti-terrorism training for Iraqi special forces. But U.S. officials and others long have suspected the camp trained terrorists. Two former Iraqi military officers told the New York Times and PBS' "Frontline" in fall 2001 that Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs were brought here to practice hijacking planes and trains, planting bombs and staging assassinations. U.N. inspectors looking for biological weapons reported seeing a plane there. The defectors said the plane was a Boeing 707. The one seen Sunday wasn't. Another part of the base was Saddam's main biological weapons center before Gulf War I, the U.N. inspectors learned in the 1990s. They said about 10 scientists and 100 other people worked on developing ways to deliver anthrax, ricin and other deadly substances over wide areas. The Republican Guard 2nd Corps headquarters also is nearby, and some intelligence experts have said another camp trained young members of the Fedayeen militia in assassination, sabotage and espionage. The military reservation sprawls next to Salman Pak, a town named for a 7th-century Persian convert to Islam who was the prophet Muhammad's barber. Salman Pak, which means "Salman the Pure" in Farsi, died in the region, and a shrine to him in the town attracts many Muslim pilgrims. In attacking the military base, the Marines kept away from the nearby ruins of Ctesiphon, a Persian capital — its main architectural wonder, the third-century 99-foot-high arched dome of King Sapor's great banqueting hall, still standing. Hours after Marines occupied the base Sunday morning, a tour of the suspected terror training compound found a series of curious sights. Plastic chairs were bolted to the ground facing each other, creating a kind of classroom in a clearing in the woods. A nearby storehouse was filled with gas masks, Baath Party plaques and bright orange rappelling gear. Farther along, speedboats lay beached in the shade of a tree. The passenger plane's sun-bleached fuselage lay alone in a large barren field. A fire engine sat at one intersection. Elsewhere, the twisted metal wreck of a double-decker bus stood near three decrepit green and red train cars. At U.S. Central Command in Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said Marines raided the complex using information obtained from captured foreign fighters of various nations, including Egypt and Sudan. "The nature of the work being done by some of those people we captured, their inferences about the type of training they received, all these things give us the impression that there is terrorist training that was conducted at Salman Pak," Brooks said Sunday. The base was deserted when the Marines reached it Sunday morning.