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To: freestyle

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.)


335 posted on 09/29/2004 2:46:36 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
>>>An Iraqi man was at a 9/11 planning meeting. His name was Shakir. Originally it was thought he was Fedayeen.

You are making leaps that I am not willing to make based on one source. Using everything you have posted and linked to, the furthest one could logically (and honestly) get to is:

An Iraqi man was an airport greeter in Malaysia. There was a 9/11 meeting in Malaysia. Hayes says he got in the limo and went to the meeting. Mabye he was Iraqi intelligence. He was definitely not Fedayeen (so Hayes was wrong on this... according to the 9/11 commission).

I just go back to your original statement. I don't need a video... I need at least 2 independent sources... and no "commentary".

Maybe Carney really did stumble into something... maybe it is in the pages and pages of blacked out senate intel report sections. I don't know.

I'm just not ready to say "Sadaam's guy had a hand in the planning of the 9/11 attack."

Because when confronted with "prove it," I would be left with:

"An Iraqi man that lives and works in Malaysia as an airport greeter met one of the 9/11 hijackers in 2000. Supposedly he went to a pre planning meeting with him, and supposedly he was trained in Iraqi intelligence."

I need more. Even an article by Hayes AFTER the commission "investigated" this claim.

354 posted on 09/29/2004 3:33:06 PM PDT by freestyle
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