The NYT says Saddam was not training terrorists

And Editorial ironically entitled "The Truth about The War" published today started out as follows:

It took just a few months after the United States’ invasion of Iraq for the world to find out that Saddam Hussein had long abandoned his nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. He was not training terrorists or colluding with Al Qaeda. The only real threat he posed was to his own countrymen.

The Times is correct when it writes that Saddam had abandoned his WMD programs. However, the portions I have put in boldface above are flat-out false. First of all, there are the invasions of Iran and Kuwait, which plainly show that Saddam was a threat to people other than his own citizens. Secondly, captured Iraqi documents make it clear that Saddam Hussein was nurturing numerous terrorist organizations, and this nurturing did include training terrorists, with intended targets both inside and outside of Iraq.

A report containing numerous translations of captured Iraqi documents is available here. The following excerpt from the Table of Contents gives a good idea of the contents of the report:

I.  Terror as an Instrument of State Power
     A.  Infrastructure for State Terrorism            1
     B.  State Sponsorship of Suicide Operations       7
II. State Relationships with Terrorist Groups             13
     A.  Managing Relationships                        13
     B.  Nurturing Organizational Relationships        15
     C.  Outreach Program                              20
     D.  "Quid Pro Quo"                                24
III.Iraq and Terrorism: Three Cases                       27
     A.  The Abu aI-Abbas Case                         27
     B.  Attacks on Humanitarian Organizations         30
     C.  Destabilizing Saudi Arabia and Kuwait         35
IV. The Business of Terror                                41
     A.  Venture Capitalists for Terrorists            41
     B.  The Terror "Business" Model of Saddam Hussein 42

In regards to the specific question of training, here is a portion of one translated document, from page 8 of volume 1:

[24 August 2002]
The National Command's office of the General Secretariat made clear in its Top Secret letter #1244 of 8/1/2002 that such cases will be dealt with in the future in light of the contents of the letter of the Presidency of the Republic's Secretary Top Secret and Immediate letter #474 of 1/29/1998. [p]aragraph 3 states that "Through the process of training, it is possible to select those suitable for suicide operations and those who truly wish to volunteer for suicide operations, given that their training will take place during the Summer vacation of schools and universities.

For another example, here is an excerpt from an internal Iraqi report on the status of Iraqi commandoes in Saudi Arabia [It naturally stands to reason that such people would have been trained in Iraq.]:

Commando Commissioner Police [NAME WITHHELD] has been sent to
settle. We are preparing to send other groups from Unit 999.
1st Lieut. Special Forces, [NAME WITHHELD], to stay in Riyadh City for the following purposes:
1. Monitor Kuwaiti Ruling Family and take the chance of eliminating some of them.
2. Collect information on vital American and Saudi target"s.
We prepared commando, [NAME WITHHELD], to be in Abu Dhabi [capital of the United Arab Emirates] for the following missions:
1. Collect vital information on the Emirates and other enemy nations
in the area.
2. To monitor the ruler and his son and to collect information on them
Previously we sent a Palestinian, [NAME WITHHELD], to Riyadh so he can eliminate the Kuwait ruling family. He is still there.