During the original Salman Pak controversy, there were two primary sources for the terror training information: Khodada, (from your second link) and an anonymous Iraqi lieutenant general.

Both were considered liars by antiwar people, since they were associated with an anti-Saddam organization. One wonders where you would go to find pro-Saddam defectors. It was also somehow assumed that an airplane fuselage would not be useful for training hijackers, but would be useful for training anti-hijackers. No explanation for this thesis is ever made.

It is entirely possible that the "L" quoted in the Iraqi article is actually the anonymous lieutenant general. It is not clear from the Iraqi article whether the interview is recent, which would imply that this guy is running around in Iraq right now, or just taken from older testimony. If the interview is recent, or "L" is a third person, this would be interesting.