Iraq is terrorist training ground

CHAOTIC post-war Iraq has become the world’s biggest training ground for the next generation of “professionalised” terrorists, according to a CIA report.

Awash with weapons and politically unstable, Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the country of choice for al-Qaida and related terrorists to train, the document said.

Iraq provides terrorists with “a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills,” said the report by the National Intelligence Council.