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Pictures of Salman Pak terrorist training camp near Baghdad |
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| In early hours of April 6, 2003, soldiers from the 7th Marine Regiment located a suspected terrorist camp en route to Baghdad. The Salman Pak base was exactly where U.S. terrorism experts and Iraqi defectors said it would be, 30 to 40 kilometers (18 to 25 miles) SE of Bagdad near a bend in the Tigris River. The camp contained several buildings and it covered more than 20 square kilometers (12 square miles).
At this camp, Marines found an airplane fuselage. Prior to the war, Iraqi defectors had claimed foreign terrorists were being trained here to hijack aircraft. The Iraqi defectors claimed this site had a Boeing 707 fuselage used for training. According to the Associated Press, however, it was not a 707 that was found although they did not specify the actual plane type. |
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