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Regime of Terror on Monday, May 25, 2009 1:13:00 PM
Over the past many months a number of interviews, documents,
admissions and other revelations have come to light that continue to
undermine the notion that al Qaeda and al Qaeda linked groups were not
able to operate inside Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein. These
findings match up with some of the older and overlooked reports on the
hotly contested that may now deserve re-examination.
A study by The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point of al Qaeda documents deemed the "Sinjar Records"
indicates that al Qaeda was, in fact, able to operate inside the
country during the rule of the former regime. The center also has
previously posted internal al Qaeda documents in which al Qaeda members
revealed to one another that "some of them went to Saddam" likely in referrence to al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan to Iraq.
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