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To: Peach
Astonishing, indeed.

If you were being honest, you would also note that the Weekly Standard - your source for the false statement made in your initial post - later retreated a bit and now take the rather Kerryesque position that they just don't know if the Shakir who was a Fedayeen officer and the Shakir with a similar - but not identical - name who attended the Kuala Lumpur meeting were the same man. Actually, most everyone now agrees that they are not the same person.

BUT, since you like to reference the 9-11 Commission for support, why don't we take a look at what they say about your claim?:

"Mihdhar was met at the Kuala Lumpur airport by Ahmed 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."

It is a shame I have to post stuff like this, because I know for a fact that you already knew it.

25 posted on 09/22/2004 4:20:37 PM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: lugsoul

Getting ready to threaten to break my arm again? As a person who has already been suspended several times, perhaps you'd like to try the third and fatal time?

I know you don't like to face facts that Iraq and AQ colluded for over a decade and that Saddam knew 9/11 was coming and where, but get over it.


28 posted on 09/22/2004 4:33:37 PM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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