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.
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.)"
Yeah, I'm reading that as a statement that Shakir (let's say #2) met Mihdhar at an airport. The rebuttal is that whomever was in the pre 9/11 meeting was a different Shakir (let's call him #1) and possibly not even an Iraqi.
>>>I have not tried to say that Iraq participated in 9/11 directly.
If that is truly your stance, then I think we agree on what the evidence currently shows. I am absolutely 100% open to new and verifiable evidence.