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To: freestyle
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.

170 posted on 09/29/2004 10:04:48 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: lugsoul

Found this: http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=203

It appears that this claim can not be substantiated in any real way. I can't find any solid rebuttal of the claim that this is simply mistaken identitiy.

Any evidence would have to be AFTER the July 2004 9/11 commision report... which states as you quoted.


189 posted on 09/29/2004 10:37:08 AM PDT by freestyle
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