That's the telegraph story.

For anyone attempting to find evidence to justify the war in Iraq, the discovery of a document that directly links Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks, with the Baghdad training camp of Abu Nidal, the infamous Palestinian terrorist, appears almost too good to be true.

Now, Abu Nidal was operating with Hussein's blessing, or else he wouldn't have operated for very long inside Iraq's borders. Hussein was a friend of Arafat and paid over $35 Million USD to the families of suicide bomber terrorists.

Read on for more!

Also read here: (free reg required) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/14/wterr114.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=85631

It turns out that one of the 9/11's 19 hijackers' uncle was close with Nidal. This uncle worked as a double agent for Libya and the then East German intelligence service, The Stasi.

"It could, of course, be pure coincidence that the uncle of one of the hijackers had worked for two intelligence agencies and had relations with another group and ran a pharmaceutical company doing business related to chemicals in the Middle East," cautions Gunther Latsch, an investigative journalist at Der Spiegel and an expert on the Stasi.

It is all too easy to create conspiracy theories, and with all the intelligence the public doesn't have privy to these kinds of reports are all we have to go on. This isn't unreasonable, considering the Con Coughlin stories I link to, above. Atta associates withj Ziad Jarrah (the nephew hijacker) who introduces Atta to his uncle who brings Atta to Nidal in Baghdad who is under the protection of Saddam who has some kind of operational relationship to Nidal. These connections are part of the web of Islamic terrorism. -- And that includes Palestinian terrorists, thanks to Nidal, and Hussein's support of Palestinian terror.

It gets more interesting:

"Two Iraqi Military defectors, an unnamed former Lt. General and a Captain Sabah Khodada recently gave details of an Iraqi school at Salman Pak which includes training for the hijacking of passenger airliners and other modes of transportation. The former Iraqi General said that there was a old Boeing 707 resting next to rail tracks on edge of Salman Pak being used in terrorist training, the existence of this aircraft has been confirmed by UN. Inspectors."

from http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/826.html

From http://finewhyfine.typepad.com/fine_why_fine/2003/12/abu_nidal_sadda.html Rob A. writes:

"Investigative (intelligence) findings are not always "a-ha!!!" moments but more the effect of numerous connections that when weighed together, tip the scale to the point where they all can't be coincindences. The problem we have and the problem real world intelligence agencies have (on a much more magnified scale) is that we have to weed out the patsies and and find the brains and just as importantly the money behind the scenes. Was Saddam really orchestrating the moves of Atta, Nidal and the others? We don't know. If the memo in Coughlin's report is authentic then it appears he was, to some extent. It's likely that he put the players in touch with each other or merely "allowed" Nidal and Atta to meet, knowing they were planning something. He may not have thought of hijacking planes with boxcutters and flying them into the Towers, Pentagon, and the unknown fourth target, but knew that Bin Laden was planning something big and wanted a piece or recognized an opportunity and seized it. After all, Salman Pak was in Iraq.

It seems to me that everyone claiming Hussein had no involvement in 9/11 is a little too eager to let him off the hook."

(Read Rob A.'s work, this article is mostly comprised of his work, with some playing up of the Palestinian terror link emphasized- the following three links are the pertinent ones to this post)

http://finewhyfine.typepad.com/fine_why_fine/2003/12/abu_nidal_sadda.html http://finewhyfine.typepad.com/fine_why_fine/2003/12/didnt_miss_much.html