nefar559 said:
and the pbs article stated this about Pak and Al QUeda"
"Nobody came and told us, "This is Al Qaeda people," but I know there were some Saudis, there were some Afghanis. There were some other people from other countries getting trained. They didn't tell us they were part of Al Qaeda; there's no such thing. ... In this camp, we know that those are Saudis, or Arabs are getting trained. Nobody will talk about Al Qaeda or any other organization."
IT ALSO SAID THIS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/khodada.html
And they trained people to hijack airplanes?
Yes.
For what purpose?
... It has been said openly in the media and even to us, from the highest command, that the purpose of establishing Saddam's fighters is to attack American targets and American interests. This is known. There's no doubt about it.
All this training is directed towards attacking American targets, and American interests. The training does not only include hijacking of planes and sabotage. ... Some other people were trained to do parachuting. Some other areas were training on how to penetrate enemy lines and get information from behind enemy lines. But it's all for the general concept of hitting and attacking American targets and American interests.
That was your reaction on September 11 -- that some of these people might be involved?
I assure you, this operation was conducted by people who were trained by Saddam. And I'm going to keep assuring the world this is what happened.
And the camp has a 707 that they train on?
Yes, there's a real whole 707 plane, a whole real plane, standing in the middle of the training area in this camp.
And they train people on how to get access to the cabin, to the crew?
Yes.
And how to take over the plane using weapons? How?
They will get trained on how to get weapons inside the plane. If there is a security weakness that they know of, they will prefer to get weapons.