Another breakdown of the time-binding faculty
Typical Winger distortion of the facts. "a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army" may be technically correct, but Instapundit carefully and, I have to assume, deliberately, avoided specifying when it was true.
Abd al-Hadi, whose full name is Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi, was born in 1961 in the Kurdish city of Mosul, northern Iraq. He did national service in Saddam Hussein’s Army, rising to the rank of major, but left for Afghanistan in the mid-1980s to join the jihad against the Soviet Union.
Another Time Online article.
The mid-1980s...the discredited old lie about a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda is still a lie and remains discredited.