[freestyle]

Would you mind enlightening us on this?

I have not found credible evidence that there was a 9/11 connection (Iraq-Qaaeda).

I definitely think we confuse our case when we make unsustainable claims.

However, I am quite aware of the numerous connections (non 9/11 operation) between Iraq and al-Qaaeda that absolutely posed a "gathering threat". (I don't know if I'd go so far as John Edwards to call it an imminent threat)

Where is the valid claim that there was a 9/11 link? Where is it rebutted? Thanks!

[lugsoul]

Here is the claim, by Peach, posted on this and about 83 other threads:

"A high ranking Iraqi fedayeen soldier attended at least one pre planning 9/11 meeting with AQ."

I knew this was fishy, because I had read a bit about this claim before. When I asked Peach who she meant by this statement, she replied "Ahmed Hikmat Shakir."

This is what the 9-11 Commission actually says about Shakir:

"Mihdhar was met at the Kuala Lumpur airport by Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, an Iraqi national. Reports that he was a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi Fedayeen have turned out to be incorrect. They were based on a confusion of Shakir's identity with that of an Iraqi Fedayeen colonel with a similar name, who was later (in September 2001) in Iraq at the same time Shakir was in police custody in Qatar."

Looks like the Commission says exactly the opposite of what Peach claims it says.