I'm sorry Peach, I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Where is the portion of the 9/11 report that states that even an Iraqi national was, indeed, at a 9/11 planning meeting? I simply have not see that text.
I think that the links between Iraq and al-qaeda are multitudinous. (***OBVIOUS NOTE: I did not say anything about 9/11 in the previous sentence***)
I simply have not seen any credible evidence that Iraq knew about or participated in ANY way with the actual 9/11 attacks. If there is such evidence, that would be one hell of an October surprise (if it wasn't easily brushed aside because it was not vetted).
Having said that... I still don't think anyone in the administration has justified our action in Iraq as a direct retaliation for 9/11... in fact, they have made clear that they are not aware of any such link.
I have not tried to say that Iraq participated in 9/11 directly.
Shakir is the person the 9/11 Commission Report mentioned was at a 9/11 planning meeting, was he not?
That he is not Fedayeen may be correct, but even the 9/11 Commission said he was an Iraqi national.
"(NOTICE: The 9/11 Commission Report released July 22 contradicts the speculation about Shakir's identity. Buried in Footnote 49 of Ch. 6:
Commission Report: Mihdhar was met at the Kuala Lumpur airport by Ahmad 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.)"
Jordanian officials still believe, btw, that Shakir worked for Iraqi intelligence.
I have always found it particularly interesting that less than two months before 9/11/01, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper “Al-Nasiriya” carried a column headlined, “American, an Obsession called Osama Bin Ladin.” (July 21, 2001)
In the piece, Baath Party writer Naeem Abd Muhalhal predicted that bin Laden would attack the US “with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White House.”
The same state-approved column also insisted that bin Laden “will strike America on the arm that is already hurting,” and that the US “will curse the memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs” – an apparent reference to the Sinatra classic, “New York, New York”
One of the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks trained in Iraq.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007969/posts
And a federal judge ruled Iraq was directly involved in 9/11 and made a judgement against Iraq.
Until people understand that the terrorists groups all work together with anyone who will support them, they will not be united in the war on terror.