London: In an effort to nail down Saddam Hussain, British government has decided to come out with a dossier on Iraq giving first definitive evidence to show that the Iraqi President had trained some of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants as terrorists and has reconstructed three plants to manufacture biological and chemical weapons.

According to a report in 'The Sunday Telegraph' on September 15, the draft version of the dossier contains detailed information about how two leading al-Qaida members, Abu Zubair and Rafid Fatah, underwent training in Iraq and are still linked to the Baghdad regime.

Abu Zubair, also known as Fowzi Saad al-Obeidi, was an Iraqi intelligence officer who was trained by Saddam's regime in terror techniques against Kurds in Northern Iraq.

Zubair's supporters of Islam organisation was sent by Saddam into Northern Iraq, which is part of the US and British no-fly zone, to assassinate leading Kurds and to build chemical warfare facilities during 1990s.

He supposedly defected from Saddam to join al-Qaida, but his family continues to enjoy privileges in Baghdad. Senior intelligence officers believe that Saddam covertly encouraged Zubair to join ranks of bin Laden whom Saddam distrusted and wanted watched.

Rafid Fatah, also known as Abu Omer al-Kurdi, was also trained by Saddam and worked with Zubair against the Kurds. It is not known when he left Iraq, but he too became a leading member of al-Qaida. His whereabouts are also not known.

PTI