"CIA Arms Training Turned Me Into a Palestinian Terrorist"

Last month, NBC News correspondent Lisa Myers tracked down Jihad Jaara, a veteran Palestinian militant who currently resides in Ireland.

As a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Jaara supervised and planned dozens of assassinations and bombings against a wide-range of American and Israeli targets while simultaneously serving as an officer in the Palestinian Preventive Security Service.

When asked what single factor had most contributed to his transformation into a successful terrorist, Jaara immediately replied: small-arms training supervised by officers of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

For two years (1996-98), Palestinian units were brought to the U.S. for advanced small-arms training on firing ranges normally used by the U.S. Army and special forces units.

More than half of the class of 18 Palestinians brought to a top-secret location near CIA headquarters in 1998 went on to become fighters in the Al-Aqsa Brigades.