What about all the terrorist training camps that the coalition cleaned up whilst in ?Iraq, convenient of the left to forget them too eh, huh huh.

Oh, as for CONCLUSIVE evidence as to Saddam's links to terrorists, read the following... Since Abu Nidal had been dead for the past couple of years, the world seems to have forgotten all about him!

Abu Nidal Organization --Iraq extremists

Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist, was murdered on the orders of Saddam Hussein after refusing to train al-Qa'eda fighters based in Iraq, The Telegraph can reveal.

Despite claims by Iraqi officials that Abu Nidal committed suicide after being implicated in a plot to overthrow Saddam, Western diplomats now believe that he was killed for refusing to reactivate his international terrorist network.

According to reports received from Iraqi opposition groups, Abu Nidal had been in Baghdad for months as Saddam's personal guest, and was being treated for a mild form of skin cancer.

Sources seem to indicate that although Abul Nidal himself worked for Iraq's secret service (and is supposedly now dead), Iraq's funding of the Abu Nidal organisation stopped in 1987, which was also when they last attacked western targets, and the organisation self-destructed in paranoia and distrust.

Generally information seems scarce and unreliable. Anyone got anyting concrete?

Another person who was directly involved in terrorism is Abu Al-Abbas, who was allocated a total of 11.5 million barrels, some of which was lifted by Vilma Oil Consultant, a Spanish company. Abu Al-Abbas has also sold 1.5 million barrels through Ayad Ammora and Partnership (Syria), which is also listed as a recipient of vouchers for 18 million barrels.

Abu Al-Abbas was first mentioned in a "top secret and personal" letter (No.110/2/43 of 25 January 1993) from the Iraqi intelligence service to the secretary of the president of the republic. The letter listed the terrorist organizations that could be employed by Iraq to carry out sabotage and terrorism activities against American interests in the Arab world.

Why does Abu Nidal being in Iraq make Iraq a threat?

There were Al Quaeda terrorists in the US in the weeks prior to 9/11and probably still are now, does that mean the US is a threat?

Iraq gave SAFE HARBOR to known terrorists... There is a vast difference between that and the terror cells here in the US, which are being sought out at a rapid pace! :roll:

The thing is, for months on end, so many of you were insistant that Saddam never had any ties to terrorists, yet now it's a backtracking matter of symantics and timelines... He did support them, at the very least up until 2002, period!

That actually is one of my gripes about the current war on terror - especially since it directly affected friends and family back in the UK.

There had my mild rant.

What does 911 has to do with Iraq? Nothing. But it's still R core argument.

Yeah, I was being facetious.

Sorry, you were about to tell us all why Abu Nidal being in Iraq with no support and no finance makes Iraq a threat?

The leader is deceased, but what about the several hundred other members..? Have they joined efforts with the other terrorist factions..?

One big difference is that life in Iraq was very closely monitored, while life in the US is not. To spell it out - if terrorist had active training camps in Irar, the government was aware of it.