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Saddam Hussein, terrorists, and WMD, Part 3, Salman Pak
September 27, 2008 | Tagged 9-11, al Qaida, Saddam Hussein, Salman Pak | 1 Comment
Salman Pak was apparently the name of the Prophet’s barber. Salman Pak is also the name of a city southeast of Baghdad and consequently the name of a terrorist training camp sanctioned, if not maintained, by Saddam Hussein in that location. You will recall that Hussein paid a $25,000 bounty to the families of terrorist suicide bombers who murdered Israeli and American men, women, and children.
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, was a gang associated with Salman Pak, but there is another reason that this training facility is important. Satellite photographs taken of the camp revealed that the base contained the fuselage of a passenger aircraft. According to reports from five separate sources, foreign fighters trained at Salman Pak, using the fuselage to practice hijacking civilian airliners with knives and other edged weapons. You recall that the vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers were not Iraqis and that naked blades were used in that attack.
Hussein’s regime maintained that the Salman Pak aircraft body was used by Iraqi military forces for anti-hijacking training. I believe that the dictator’s version was merely a cover for the real purpose of the fuselage, which was terrorist rehearsal. A former Iraqi officer, Abdullah Rahman al-Shamary claimed that Salman Pak was built as a training camp for al Qaida by the Iraqi military.
There is another wrinkle to the saga of Salman Pak. A well-known terrorist named Abu Nidal reportedly completed a “work program” associated with Salman Pak and airline hijacker Atta before the 09-11-01 airliner hijackings. Nidal was efficient enough and a good enough leader to have a terrorist group named after him. I suppose he could have been teaching trainees how to bake cookies, but I doubt it. What was Nidal doing around Salman Pak? He died in Iraq. Nidal was apparently a very determined suicide. According to reports, he shot himself four times in the head. Was he just hard core? Was Nidal a bad shot? Was he murdered to silence him forever about his possible role in the 9-11 attacks? (Please read the above link “Nidal.” It lays out in graphic detail Saddam Hussein’s terrorist links. Not for the faint of heart. This is the Mother Lode.)
In addition to the pre-war reports about Salman Pak as a training facility for foreign fighters and Abu Nidal’s presence at the camp; during Operation Iraqi Freedom, U.S. ground forces encountered non-Iraqi combatants in the vicinity of the installation.
Does the totality of this information “prove” that the hijackers who attacked New York City and the Pentagon were trained in Hussein’s Iraq? Probably not to the level of “beyond a reasonable doubt.” A U.S. District Judge did rule in favor of plaintiffs claiming damages against Hussein for the 9-11 attacks. Does the totality of this information, when combined with Hussein’s support for terrorists, including al Qaida, strongly suggest that he was a festering threat to the United States? (See Posts 1 and 2 under the Category-War on Terror.)
I reject the Left’s assertion that the rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was an artifact of the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” or “Blood for Oil” cabal. It is also doubtful, in my opinion, that disinformation agents working for Saddam’s Iraqi enemies in exile could have put together an incredibly elaborate hoax to deceive U.S. Intelligence. Unless there is another explanation for the Salman Pak ”trout in the milk,” I believe we must conclude that the circumstantial evidence regarding Hussein’s terrorist collaboration against America is persuasive, if not damning. Ergo, the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was well justified as being in the national interests of the United States of America. Dare we question the motivation and/or the wisdom of those who continue to bray that Operation Iraqi Freedom began an unnecessary war? (Stay tuned for Part 4.)
Def Mech
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great post and site
Mark E’s last blog post..MSNBC unloads details of prominent terrorist’s links to Hussein regime