Posted on 05/27/2004 7:33:19 AM PDT by sathers
Newly uncovered files examined by US military investigators in Baghdad show what is being described as 'a direct link' between Saddam Hussein's elite Fedayeen military unit and the terrorist attacks on America September 11, 2001.
Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who attended a 2000 Al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where the 9/11 attacks were planned, is listed among the officers on three Fedayeen rosters reviewed by US probers, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
'Our government sources, who have seen the translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of Lt. Colonel,' the paper said.
Saddam's Fedayeen has been identified in previous reports as the group that conducted 9/11 style hijack training drills on a parked Boeing 707 airliner at the south Baghdad terrorist camp Salman Pak.
In a post obtained through Saddam's Mukahbarrat intelligence service, Shakir was stationed at the Iraqi embassy in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the 9/11 planning session.
Also in attendance, 9/11 highjackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi who piloted American Airlines Filght 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon.
Ramzi al Shibh, the operational planner of the 9/11 attacks, and Tawfiz al Atash, a high ranking Osama bin Laden lieutenant and mastermind of the USS Cole boming, were also at the meeting the Journal said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
"Bush's big chance will be at the debates when he points out what the media won't talk about."
That would be too late! That's the same strategy his father employed, and look where it got him. Bush needs to go on the offensive NOW, and he neeeds to keep it up.
"THE LEFT IS TOAST!"
Not as long as the media run interference for them and cover-up for them.
Salman Pak is the most under-reported story of our lifetime.
Because Sadly Bush has never said this. In fact he was forced to say publicly there was NO connection with Saddam and al-Qaeda/9/11. The Lefties at airamerica radio play that clip over and over of Bush saying this. What is wrong with Bush anyway that such news is not shouted from the highest mountain top?
>>'a direct link' between Saddam Hussein's elite
>>Fedayeen military unit and the terrorist attacks
>>on America September 11, 2001.
[Timothy McVeigh, was identified drinking beer with a former Iraqi soldier in an Oklahoma City tavern.]
http://www.jaynadavis.com/
The ABC Ministry of Information will be reporting this right after the latest Prison Headline!!!Pray for W and The Truth
The Iraqis, of course, denied any involvement. "The Clinton government has fabricated yet another lie to the effect that Iraq had helped Sudan produce this chemical weapon," declared the political editor of Radio Iraq. Still, even as Iraq denied helping Sudan and al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction, the regime lauded Osama bin Laden. On August 27, 1998, twenty days after al Qaeda attacked the U.S. embassies in Africa, Babel, the government newspaper run by Saddam's son Uday Hussein, published a startling editorial proclaiming bin Laden "an Arab and Islamic hero."
Five months later, the same Richard Clarke who would one day claim that there was "absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever," told the Washington Post that the U.S. government was "sure" that Iraq was behind the production of the chemical weapons precursor at the al Shifa plant. "Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at al Shifa or what happened to it," wrote Post reporter Vernon Loeb, in an article published January 23, 1999. "But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to al Shifa's current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts, and the National Islamic Front in Sudan."
"So if the evidence is compelling, why did three different friendly governments including our very own CIA let him go?"
The let him go 2 and a half years ago, this information is just now coming out, and you are asking why they let him go? Probably because they did not have this information when they had him.
Hey, wizeguy, I read WSJ, NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, and watch Fox News, and watched American Idol too. They're not mutually exclusive.
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In all the talk about Rumsfeld needing to go - In my opinion Powell is really not doing much for us.
He needs to get his btt off the bench and be respopnsible for some positve quotes and positive energy, instead of constantly looking like he can't even negotiate with the French.
I love Powell - and think he can do it - but he needs to rise to the challenge.
Diva's Husband
They are called pikes. Not sure William Wallace really used them, but they were a very real and effective defense against calvary.
Hope your right about the coming "Shock & Awe".
It's VERY speculative.
"It's VERY speculative."
Your answer seems to make the most sense - however - from what I read and know about other certain topics (Vince Foster, TWA 800, OKC et. al.) the evidence I learn leads me to the conclusion that there is more truth than fiction to them - mainly because I have not heard rational or factual arguments against them.
I think there is much that goes on in the government behind the scenes that we're not aware of - and hopefully our leaders are doing the right thing - that is making decisions based upon the best interest of America and not their own carrers and power.
We will probably never know the truth or the reasons behind those decisions. My best guess is that our politicians want to cover each other's collective asses - and don't want to make "the family" look bad. Sweep it under the rug so to speak. This is my best guess....
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