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To: freestyle

Are we talking at cross purposes here?

My reading is that a guy named Shakir was at a 9/11 planning meeting. At first it was thought he was high ranking Fedayeen. Then it was discovered he was an Iraqi national. Jordanian intelligence believe he was Iraqi intelligence.

Where do you get he may not even be Iraqi intelligence? Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Report update you just posted say that he is an Iraqi national?


274 posted on 09/29/2004 1:45:26 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
"Where do you get he may not even be Iraqi intelligence? Doesn't the 9/11 Commission Report update you just posted say that he is an Iraqi national?"

Are all Iraqi nationals a part of Iraqi intelligence? Or is this just another of your non-sequiturs?

287 posted on 09/29/2004 1:54:24 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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from above:
"(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.)"


I guess my point is that from the above, the closest I get to putting that guy into a (pre-planning) 9/11 meeting is this quote from Hayes, "An Iraqi of that name ... had been present at an al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on January 5-8, 2000. U.S. intelligence officials believe this was a chief planning meeting for the September 11 attacks."

I'm just saying that is not enough for me to go on. The man can only be "possibly" linked to Hussein, I have not heard anyone in the administration refer to it, and the 9/11 commission was clear in saying that they haven't found "operational" ties. And yes, he was an "airport greeter" but do we know he was part of this meeting? If he were part of the meeting and linked to Sadaam, then yes... that would be an operational tie.

298 posted on 09/29/2004 2:06:42 PM PDT by freestyle
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