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.
Haven't you answered your own question in the link you provided previously?
An Iraqi man was at a 9/11 planning meeting. His name was Shakir. Originally it was thought he was Fedayeen. THen it was discovered he was just an Iraqi national. Jordanian intelligence believe he is an Iraqi intelligence officer (link provided to you previously).
From your link: Lehman was referring to a Wall Street Journal editorial from May 27 (long before the staff statement was issued, actually) saying captured documents list someone named Ahmed Hikmat Shakir as a senior officer in Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary forces, and that someone also named Ahmed Hikmat Shakir was present at a January 2000 al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur at which the September 11 attacks were planned. What remains to be confirmed, of course, is whether they're the same person or not, and if so whether that shows Saddam played any role in the September 11 attacks.
(NOTICE: The 9/11 Commission Report released July 22 contradicts thespeculation 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.)