Saddumb and His Terrorist Buddies

Yet another lie goes into a tailspin:

Documents from Saddam Hussein's regime that are slowly being translated show Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists at camps inside the country before the war.

The evidence – affirmed in interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders – contradicts the claims of anti-war critics who charge Iraq became a magnet for Islamic terrorists only after the U.S. invasion.

Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard reports that from 1999 through 2002, "elite Iraqi military units" trained about 8,000 terrorists at three different camps, including Salman Pak, where American forces found an airliner fuselage that possibly was used to practice hijackings.

Hayes, who claims more than a dozen corroborating sources, says many of the trainees were from North African-based terrorist groups with ties to al-Qaida.

The U.S. has collected more than 2 million documents, audio and videotapes and computer hard drives, but only about 50,000 of these of these items have been examined so far by a skelton crew with limited resources.

Along with Salmon Pak, the military units trained terrorists at camps in Samarra and Ramadi who, some intelligence officials believe, are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis.

Three interesting tidbits I gleaned from this article:

1. Saddumb had ties to Al-Killya, however tenuous they may have been.

2. It's a distinct possibility that some of the terrorists trained in Iraq under his watchful gaze attacked Americans.

3. There are 2 million documents and other items--and only about 50,000 have been scrutinized--yet we already have this much evidence? This indicates a massive, damning case against Saddumb, once the documents are analyzed in their entirety.

But don't worry, guys 'n gals. I'm sure the Left will wave its magic bong and come up with ten or twenty new lies and bury this one under their avalanche.