Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in
news:Xns9791D7B208A35fstone69@81.174.50.80:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/024ey

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eu.asp

REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on
NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq

on

its third anniversary. Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime hawk,
has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war. And on the
show, he spoke of what "probably worries me the most" about the U.S.
effort in Iraq. The war, said Murtha, is a diversion from the global

war

on terror.

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went there," said Murtha.
"None. There was no connection with al Qaeda, there was no connection
with, with terrorism in Iraq itself." This is now the conventional
wisdom on Iraq and terrorism. It is wrong.

A new study from the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, paints
quite a different picture. According to captured documents cited in the
study and first reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD in January, the former
Iraqi regime was training non-Iraqi Arabs in terrorist techniques.

Beginning in 1994, the Fedayeen Saddam opened its own paramilitary
training camps for volunteers, graduating more than 7,200 "good men
racing full with courage and enthusiasm" in the first year. Beginning

in

1998, these camps began hosting "Arab volunteers from Egypt, Palestine,
Jordan, 'the Gulf,' and Syria." It is not clear from available evidence
where all of these non-Iraqi volunteers who were "sacrificing for the
cause" went to ply their newfound skills. Before the summer of 2002,
most volunteers went home upon the completion of training. But these
camps

were humming with frenzied activity in the months immediately prior
to the war. As late as January 2003, the volunteers participated in a
special training event called the "Heroes Attack." This training event
was designed in part to prepare regional Fedayeen Saddam commands to
"obstruct the enemy from achieving his goal and to support keeping

peace

and stability in the province."

Some of this training came under the auspices of the Iraqi Intelligence
Service's "Division 27," which, according to the study, "supplied the
Fedayeen Saddam with silencers, equipment for booby-trapping vehicles,
[and] special training on the use of certain explosive timers. The only
apparent use for all of this Division 27 equipment was to conduct
commando or terrorist operations."

The publication of the Joint Forces Command study, called the "Iraqi
Perspectives Project," coincides with the release by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence of several hundred documents captured
in postwar Iraq. There are many more to come. Some of the documents

used

to complete the study have been made public as part of the ODNI effort;
others have not.

It is early, but the emerging picture suggests that the U.S.
intelligence community underestimated Saddam Hussein's interest in
terrorism. One U.S. intelligence official, identified only as an "IC
analyst" in the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on Iraq,
summarized the intelligence community's view on Iraq and terrorism with
disarming candor: "I don't think we were really focused on the CT
[counterterrorism] side, because we weren't concerned about the IIS
[Iraqi Intelligence Service] going out and proactively conducting
terrorist attacks. It wasn't until we realized that there was the
possibility of going to war that we had to get a handle on that."

WOW, it only took them 3 years to cook up some evidence that Saddam had
anything to do with terrorism.

Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in
news:Xns9791D7B208A35fstone69@81.174.50.80:

yieu.asp

It is early, but the emerging picture suggests that the U.S.
intelligence community underestimated Saddam Hussein's interest in
terrorism. One U.S. intelligence official, identified only as an "IC
analyst" in the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on Iraq,
summarized the intelligence community's view on Iraq and terrorism
with disarming candor: "I don't think we were really focused on the
CT [counterterrorism] side, because we weren't concerned about the
IIS [Iraqi Intelligence Service] going out and proactively conducting
terrorist attacks. It wasn't until we realized that there was the
possibility of going to war that we had to get a handle on that."

WOW, it only took them 3 years to cook up some evidence that Saddam
had anything to do with terrorism.

Fred Stone wrote:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/024eyi
eu.asp

REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on
NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq
on its third anniversary. Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime
hawk, has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war. And on
the show, he spoke of what "probably worries me the most" about the
U.S. effort in Iraq. The war, said Murtha, is a diversion from the
global war on terror.

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went there," said Murtha.
"None. There was no connection with al Qaeda, there was no connection
with, with terrorism in Iraq itself." This is now the conventional
wisdom on Iraq and terrorism. It is wrong.

A new study from the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, paints
quite a different picture. According to captured documents cited in
the study and first reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD in January, the
former Iraqi regime was training non-Iraqi Arabs in terrorist techniques.

Beginning in 1994, the Fedayeen Saddam opened its own paramilitary
training camps for volunteers, graduating more than 7,200 "good men
racing full with courage and enthusiasm" in the first year. Beginning
in 1998, these camps began hosting "Arab volunteers from Egypt,
Palestine, Jordan, 'the Gulf,' and Syria." It is not clear from
available evidence where all of these non-Iraqi volunteers who were
"sacrificing for the cause" went to ply their newfound skills. Before
the summer of 2002, most volunteers went home upon the completion of
training. But these camps

were humming with frenzied activity in the months immediately
prior to the war. As late as January 2003, the volunteers participated
in a special training event called the "Heroes Attack." This training
event was designed in part to prepare regional Fedayeen Saddam
commands to "obstruct the enemy from achieving his goal and to support
keeping peace and stability in the province."

Some of this training came under the auspices of the Iraqi
Intelligence Service's "Division 27," which, according to the study,
"supplied the Fedayeen Saddam with silencers, equipment for
booby-trapping vehicles, [and] special training on the use of certain
explosive timers. The only apparent use for all of this Division 27
equipment was to conduct commando or terrorist operations."

The publication of the Joint Forces Command study, called the "Iraqi
Perspectives Project," coincides with the release by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence of several hundred documents
captured in postwar Iraq. There are many more to come. Some of the
documents used to complete the study have been made public as part of
the ODNI effort; others have not.

It is early, but the emerging picture suggests that the U.S.
intelligence community underestimated Saddam Hussein's interest in
terrorism. One U.S. intelligence official, identified only as an "IC
analyst" in the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on Iraq,
summarized the intelligence community's view on Iraq and terrorism
with disarming candor: "I don't think we were really focused on the CT
[counterterrorism] side, because we weren't concerned about the IIS
[Iraqi Intelligence Service] going out and proactively conducting
terrorist attacks. It wasn't until we realized that there was the
possibility of going to war that we had to get a handle on that."

What is so disgusting is that Murtha was damned well aware of this info.
His exemplary service record does not excuse him from lying to make his
case against the war. But such is the vehemence of the libs in this
country that they can't support their case without lies and have no
scruples when it comes to telling lies.

Fred Stone wrote:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/024eyi
eu.asp

REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on
NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq on
its third anniversary. Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime hawk,
has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war. And on the
show, he spoke of what "probably worries me the most" about the U.S.
effort in Iraq. The war, said Murtha, is a diversion from the global war
on terror.

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before we went there," said Murtha.
"None. There was no connection with al Qaeda, there was no connection
with, with terrorism in Iraq itself." This is now the conventional
wisdom on Iraq and terrorism. It is wrong.

A new study from the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, paints
quite a different picture. According to captured documents cited in the
study and first reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD in January, the former
Iraqi regime was training non-Iraqi Arabs in terrorist techniques.

Beginning in 1994, the Fedayeen Saddam opened its own paramilitary
training camps for volunteers, graduating more than 7,200 "good men
racing full with courage and enthusiasm" in the first year. Beginning in
1998, these camps began hosting "Arab volunteers from Egypt, Palestine,
Jordan, 'the Gulf,' and Syria." It is not clear from available evidence
where all of these non-Iraqi volunteers who were "sacrificing for the
cause" went to ply their newfound skills. Before the summer of 2002,
most volunteers went home upon the completion of training. But these
camps

were humming with frenzied activity in the months immediately prior
to the war. As late as January 2003, the volunteers participated in a
special training event called the "Heroes Attack." This training event
was designed in part to prepare regional Fedayeen Saddam commands to
"obstruct the enemy from achieving his goal and to support keeping peace
and stability in the province."

Some of this training came under the auspices of the Iraqi Intelligence
Service's "Division 27," which, according to the study, "supplied the
Fedayeen Saddam with silencers, equipment for booby-trapping vehicles,
[and] special training on the use of certain explosive timers. The only
apparent use for all of this Division 27 equipment was to conduct
commando or terrorist operations."

The publication of the Joint Forces Command study, called the "Iraqi
Perspectives Project," coincides with the release by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence of several hundred documents captured
in postwar Iraq. There are many more to come. Some of the documents used
to complete the study have been made public as part of the ODNI effort;
others have not.

It is early, but the emerging picture suggests that the U.S.
intelligence community underestimated Saddam Hussein's interest in
terrorism. One U.S. intelligence official, identified only as an "IC
analyst" in the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on Iraq,
summarized the intelligence community's view on Iraq and terrorism with
disarming candor: "I don't think we were really focused on the CT
[counterterrorism] side, because we weren't concerned about the IIS
[Iraqi Intelligence Service] going out and proactively conducting
terrorist attacks. It wasn't until we realized that there was the
possibility of going to war that we had to get a handle on that."

What is so disgusting is that Murtha was damned well aware of this info.
His exemplary service record does not excuse him from lying to make
his case against the war.

But such is the vehemence of the libs in this
country that they can't support their case without lies and have no
scruples when it comes to telling lies.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:11:58 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
- Refer: <Xns9791D7B208A35fstone69@81.174.50.80>
:
"Camp Saddam"?
Who cares if he's gay?