Pentagon Report Finds No Direct Saddam-al-Qaida Connection
美称萨达姆与基地组织无直接关联
The U.S. Defense Department has released a study of 600,000 documents from Saddam Hussein's archives concluding that while he supported many terrorist groups he did not have a "direct connection" with al-Qaida. But the department's spokesman says that is not a new conclusion.
美国国防部对60万份萨达姆档案文件进行研究之后发表的报告得出结论说，尽管萨达姆曾支持许多恐怖集团，但是他和基地恐怖组织没有直接关联。国防部发言人说，这并非新结论。
According to the executive summary of the Iraqi Perspectives Project report, Saddam Hussein was concerned that terrorist groups, particularly those with an Islamic viewpoint, could threaten his regime. But the report says he cooperated with them anyway because they attacked his enemy, the United States.
根据“伊拉克透视项目”报告作出的摘要，萨达姆曾担心恐怖集团、尤其是具有伊斯兰教观点的恐怖集团可能危及他的统治地位。但是有关报告说，他仍然与恐怖集团协作，因为他们打击他的敌人：美国。
It says under Saddam, Iraq's involvement in terrorism focused on his enemies both inside and outside Iraq, but also extended to support for the families of Palestinian terrorists and a program to develop and build car bombs and to train people on how to use them. The report says, "State sponsorship of terrorism became such a routine tool of state power that Iraq developed elaborate bureaucratic processes to monitor progress and accountability in the recruiting, training and resourcing of terrorists."
报告说，在萨达姆统治下，伊拉克所参与的恐怖活动的重点是对付他在国内外的敌人，但是伊拉克的参与也扩展到支持巴勒斯坦恐怖分子的家属、发展并制作汽车炸弹项目以及训练如何使用汽车炸弹。这份报告说，国家对恐怖主义的支持在伊拉克成为国家权力的一种惯用工具，以至伊拉克设立了完善的官方程序来监督招募、训练及资助恐怖分子工作的进展和可靠程度。
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says the report shows "a Nazi-esque cataloging of Saddam's ties with terror."
五角大楼的新闻秘书莫雷尔说，这份报告显示萨达姆与恐怖主义的关系属于纳粹法西斯模式。
Still, according to the report, researchers have not found any "direct connection" between Saddam and al-Qaida, which carried out the September 11 attacks in 2001 and several other significant attacks on U.S. targets. Pentagon Spokesman Bryan Whitman says U.S. military researchers have reached the same 'no-connection' conclusion in at least two previous analyses of the captured documents.
