On this PBS web page in an article about the terrorist training camp at Salman Pak that trained domestic and foreign fighters for the purpose of attacking American interests. Take a look at the article. There are two things that you need to notice. 1st, the man worked at the terrorist training camp at Salman Pak and is therefore a source of firsthand information. 2nd, his story takes place while Saddam was still in charge of Iraq. Link.
Excerpt:
"To you, then, the likely suspect here is the government of Iraq and Saddam in all this terrorism. And yet we're looking the wrong way?
I assure you, and I'm going to keep assuring you, that all these things are obvious. I don't know why you don't see it.
When we were in Iraq, Saddam said all the time, even during the Gulf War, "We will take our revenge at the proper time." He kept telling the people, "Get ready for our revenge."
We saw people getting trained to hijack airplanes, to put explosives. How could anybody not think this is not done by Saddam? Even the grouping, those groups were divided into five to six people in the group. How about the training on planes?
Some of these groups were taken and trained to drive airplanes at the School of Aviation, northern of Baghdad ... .Everything coincides with what's happening.
In addition to that, we heard in the news about meeting some of those hijackers with the Iraqi intelligence people in Prague, and
even getting money to get trained on flying airplanes in the United States from the Iraqi intelligence.
[Did you hear that some of those training at the camp were working for] Osama bin Laden?
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.
They're just people.
Yes.
Who clearly wanted to ... or were interested in doing terror, becoming terrorists?
This camp is specialized in exporting terrorism to the whole world. ..."