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Publication: Daily Times
Date: April 24, 2003
URL: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-4-2003_pg7_60
A report in a British newspaper
alleging that the regime of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had links
with Ugandan extremists justifies Kampala’s position in favour of the war
in Iraq, a top military intelligence official said on Thursday.
“All along even before the US-led
war in Iraq, we had intelligence reports that Ugandan terrorist groups
were sending their recruits to centres in Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan,”
Ugandan military intelligence chief Colonel Nobel Mayombo told newsmen
by telephone. “This was the basis that made our government take a position
in favour of the coalition forces against Saddam’s regime. This is where
our terrorist groups were getting training and funding,” Mayombo said.
Mayombo was reacting to a report
in British newspaper Daily Telegraph on Thursday that it had seen dossiers
linking Saddam Hussein’s regime to a Ugandan Islamic extremist group. The
dossiers said that Iraq’s charge d’affaires in Nairobi, Fallah Hassan al-Rubdie,
was in discussion with the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan guerrilla
group. —AFP
