http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneweb/mb_011113.htm
To refresh peoples memories of the said hijacking training facility
Salman Pak, Iraq, located 30-40 km SE of Baghdad. See: USNEWS.
A map and more details obtained from link below at Global Security.org
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/salman_pak.htm
THE BELOW ARTICLE SAYS THAT SOME SAY CLINTON DIDN'T WANT THIS INFO
OUT: The possible reason was he was the prior president and he 'was'
warring with Iraq and terrorism issues for most of his presidency.
"[...] The CIA, which is responsible for dealing with terrorism,
accommodated Clinton's desire not to hear about Iraq and terrorism,
does not want that information to come out"....[...].
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Source: Freerepublic.com post of snips of NewsMax.com article.
Posted on 01/30/2003 9:32:30 AM PST by honway
The CIA is blocking critical intelligence that links Saddam Hussein to
the 9/11 attacks, a former top terrorism advisor to President Clinton
is contending, and by doing so, she says, the agency is weakening
President Bush's case for war against Iraq.
Asked about Salman Pak, the terrorist training camp near Baghdad
where, according to a number of Iraqi defectors, al Qaeda terrorists
have practiced for years hijacking American airliners using the same
methods employed on 9/11, Clinton Iraqi expert Laurie Mylroie told
WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg:
"There's a huge debate within the (Bush) administration. The Defense
Department wants to bring out information like that. The CIA, which is
responsible for dealing with terrorism, accommodated Clinton's desire
not to hear about Iraq and terrorism, does not want that information
to come out. It acts as Saddam's lawyer."
Mylroie served as President Clinton's top advisor on Iraq during the
1992 campaign, and she has lectured on Middle Eastern terrorism and
its origins at the Naval War College and Harvard University. Mylroie
is also author of the book, "The War Against America," which details
Baghdad's role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Just minutes before Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night,
Mylroie told Malzberg, "For any official statement to be made by the
government, there is an interagency review process and the CIA blocks
(the Salman Pak) information. Their response is to say, the defectors
are not reliable - because they oppose Saddam you can't believe them."
What about satellite photos backing up accounts from Salman Pak
defectors who describe a Boeing 707 parked on the ground, which they
say serves as a classroom for Saddam's hijack trainees?
According to Mylroie, the CIA offers the bizarre alibi that the plane
"could have been used by the Iraqis for counter-hijacking."
The Clinton terrorism expert says the White House is partly to blame
for not forcing U.S. intelligence services to be more forthright about
the information they have on Salman Pak, complaining, "Bush has failed
to discipline the bureaucracy. And they have put their careers above
Bush's career."
Asked to detail the precise role of Iraq in al Qaeda operations
directed against the U.S., Mylroie told WABC, "Al Qaeda acts as a
front for Iraqi intelligence. Al Qaeda provides the ideology, the foot
soldiers and the cover. And Iraqi intelligence provides the direction,
training and expertise."
Commenting on reports that the White House would use the State of the
Union address to reinforce the argument that Saddam has been working
with al Qaeda for years, Mylroie noted, "I'm glad (President Bush) is
going to talk about Iraq and al Qaeda. (But) I have some concern that
because powerful individuals and institutions are even now unwilling
to acknowledge their error, the case is going to be a lot weaker than
it could be."
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