I am looking for an article about an interview with Richard Butler who
explains how he discussed with Saddam officials a terrorist training
camp just outside of Baghdad that was next to a biological WMD lab and
that senior Saddam officials told him not to worry that they would
never give WMD to the terrorists.
I have this article:
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?From Richard Butler, Dec 21, 2001, former head of the UN weapons inspection team:
RICHARD BUTLER:There's a terrorist training camp outside Baghdad which
was next to a biological weapons facility that we used to visit and so
we were aware of that place.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/s445716.htm"
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But I am looking for one I read months ago about where Butler actually
discussed the terrorists with Saddam officials. |
Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
31 Jul 2004 09:00 PDT
Could any any of the following be the article/interveiw you recall?
PBS interview with Richard Butler
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/butler.html
A conversation with ... Richard Butler
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/1998/msg00335.html
"Foreign journalists have visited the suspected terrorist training
site Salman Pak with Ritter. He insisted to reporters present that
Iraq uses Salman Pak to train commandos in hostage-rescue techniques.
The camp includes a mockup of a wingless Boeing 707. In Bizarro-World
Iraq has had a big problem with crazed Protestant-Americans hijacking
their planes."
"This, of course, differs dramatically from the statements of
Earth-bound former UN weapons inspectors, such as Richard Butler, or
Iraqi military officers now defected to the West, such as former
Captain for Iraqi Division of Special Operations Sabah Khodada.
Captain Khodada worked at Salman Pak for 10 years, and says it was
used to train both Iraqis and Arab nationals in the art of terrorism.
Khodada says that Iraq uses the Boeing 707 fuselage to train hijackers
to overpower the flight crew using forks, knives, pens, pencils and
even sunglasses."
"Khodada believes that through this facility September 11 hijackers
could be connected to Iraq. It should be pointed out that Khodada now
works for an Iraqi opposition group and may have reason to heighten
September 11 linkage to Iraq. However, the point here is that Saddam
Hussein trains both Iraqis and other Arab nationals on terrorism in
the same manner as Al Qaeda. Other former UN inspectors such as Butler
have also confirmed Salman Pak. Only a nincompoop - or a former UN
inspector from Bizarro-World - would believe that Saddam Hussein uses
Salman Pak for hostage-rescue training. What Mr. Ritter is saying is
that given a choice he believes Saddam over former defected Iraqi army
members and fellow UN inspectors."
BThe three paragraphs directly above are from
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092402C.html
This is attributed to Scott Ritter, not Butler, but it addresses your query:
"Defectors talked about a terrorist training camp south of Bagdad in
Salman Pak where they train people to take over airplanes conveniently
in groups of four and five armed with knives. Amazing how this
information came out after September 11. It's not true. I've been to
that terrorist training camp. It's not a terrorist training camp, it's
a hostage rescue camp put in place in the 1980s by by the British
government to support Saddam Hussein because any nation that has a
national airlines has an assault force capable of conducting hostage
rescue of aircraft that have been subject to hijacking. We have it.
Iraq has it. That's what Salman Pak is plain and simple."
http://madison.indymedia.org/newswire/display_printable/6713/index.php
Sabah Khodada interview regarding terrorist training camp
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html
Best regards,
journalist-ga
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Clarification of Question by
awilson1776-ga
on
31 Jul 2004 11:42 PDT
These are all good articles and support the article I posted with the
question. But I am looking specifically for an article I read a few
months ago and can't find.
The article relates how Butler was talking with senior Saddam
officials about the terrorist traing camp at Salman Pak and the
officials said not to worry they would never give WMD to the
terrorists.
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
01 Aug 2004 06:51 PDT
It would help a Researcher if you could recall any or all of the
following - what month it was, if it was in a newspaper, online or in
a magazine, etc. With more clues, it may be possible to locate. Note
that if it was in a print publication, it may not be posted online.
Best regards,
journalist-ga
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Clarification of Question by
awilson1776-ga
on
01 Aug 2004 08:18 PDT
The article I read was online and I am unable to recall what the date
of the article was it could be as far back as 1998.
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