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April 16, 2003

More on the PLF training camp

Augmenting the reports on the arrest of Abu Abbas (here and here), here's a more recent report on the PLF traning camp that was discovered a week ago from Stars & Stripes:

Flags of the Palestine Liberation Front and Iraq were painted side-by-side on the gate of a small camp near Iraq’s capital city. Another painting of a masked terrorist brandishing an AK-47 stood watch nearby... The camp itself is roughly 10 miles outside of Baghdad, hidden in a cluster of trees in the midst of wheat fields. The training site is about 10 acres in size. About a dozen reinforced concrete buildings line the front edge with a large parade field, concrete and steel obstacle course and even a shooting range within its confines.

Previous post on the camp here.

Posted By Lonewacko at April 16, 2003 12:08 AM | TrackBack

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from the mouth of the GREAT one baghdad bob.....you are to far from reality, there are no terrorist training camps here in iraq.....

Posted by: aby normal at April 16, 2003 12:15 AM

Ah, but to the Iraqi's that wasn't a terrorist camp, those guys are "Palastine Freedom Fighters"

Posted by: Ray at April 16, 2003 02:02 AM

Strange that the BIG news carriers haven't bothered to even mention this camp nor it's connection to Abbu and the PLF. I guess they're all too busy attending press briefings at the Palestine Hotel and taping chants from the Saddamites in front of the Hotel.

It's interesting to watch some of these primadonas get ready for their broadcast on CBS's webcam at the Palestine. They rehearse what they are going to say many times before they deliver the final 'report' and that report is a 'timed' clip. Absolutely NO impromptu comments.
So much for 'reporting'.

Hopefully the Washington Post will do an article on the camp. They've been fairly good in their coverage but most reporters couldn't write a story if their life depended on it.

Sad, very sad.

Posted by: Eh-Canadian at April 16, 2003 08:36 AM