Saddam discussed hosting al Qaeda training center

Fox News:

Newly declassified documents captured by U.S. forces indicate that Saddam Hussein's inner circle not only actively reached out to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan and terror-based jihadists in the region, but also hosted discussions with a known Al Qaeda operative about creating jihad training "centers," possibly in Baghdad.

Ray Robison, a former member of the CIA-directed Iraq Survey Group (ISG), supervised a group of linguists to analyze, archive and exploit the hundreds of captured documents and materials of Saddam's regime.

This is the final installment in a three-part series concerning a notebook kept by an Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) agent called Khaled Abd El Majid, and covers events taking place in 1999. The translation is provided by Robison's associate, known here as “Sammi.”

The first two translations from this notebook detailed an agreement between members of the Saddam regime and the Taliban to establish diplomatic and intelligence based cooperation. This final translation further advances the link between the Saddam regime and world-wide Islamic Jihad terrorism.

The relationship between the Taliban and Saddam appears to have been mediated by a Pakistani named Maulana Fazlur Rahman. Another document captured in Afghanistan and written by an Al Qaeda operative confirms the relationship between the Maulana and Saddam. The translation provided here includes an early 1999 meeting between the director of the IIS and the Maulana.

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There is more. The question is whether the truth about Saddam's association with al Qaeda will ever catch up with the Democrat's false assertion that he had no connection.

While Fox News and conservative blogs are looking at the evidence the rest of the media and the left wing are ignoring facts inconsistent with their point of view. They only hear what they want to hear.

The fact that we are only hearing this information now is evidence of what a poor job the administration has done in forcefully responding to the misinformation of the anti war left in this country. They should have engaged on this issue much sooner and more forcefully, and they should not be leaving it up to bloggers and Fox News now. If the administration spoke out on this evidence the rest of the media could not ignore it.

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