WSJ: Saddam's Files Show 'Direct' 9/11 Link

Newly uncovered files examined by U.S. military investigators in Baghdad show what is being described as "a direct link" between Saddam Hussein's elite Fedayeen military unit and the terrorist attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001.

Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who attended a January 2000 al-Qaida summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the 9/11 attacks were planned, is listed among the officers on three Fedayeen rosters reviewed by U.S. probers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

"Our government sources, who have seen translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel," the paper said.

Though the Journal doesn't mention it, Saddam's Fedayeen has been identified in previous reports as the group that conducted 9/11-style hijack training drills on a parked Boeing 707 airliner at the south Baghdad terrorist camp Salman Pak.

In a post obtained through Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service, Shakir was stationed at the Iraqi Embassy in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the 9/11 planning session.

Also in attendance were 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi, who were piloting American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon.

Ramzi bin al Shibh, the operational planner of the 9/11 attacks, and Tawfiz al Atash, a high-ranking Osama bin Laden lieutenant and mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, were also at the meeting, the Journal said.

When Shakir was arrested in Qatar on Sept. 17, 2001, he was carrying phone numbers of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers' safe houses and contacts, as well as information relating to Operation Bojinka, a plot devised by trade center bomber Ramzi Yousef that became the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks.

The Qataris released Shakir after a brief detention and he fled to Jordan, where he was re-arrested. Inexplicably, however, the CIA signed off on his release after Amnesty International complained.

"He was last seen heading home to Baghdad," the Journal says.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/...27/100047.shtml


Bush was right all along!

"Our government sources, who have seen translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel,"

"He was last seen heading home to Baghdad,"

Lemme guess: These are the same guys that say mobile biochem labs, and WMD caches that now seem to have vanished?

We have found WMDs. Bush was right.

So, you posted two threads on the SAME subject. (that one guy with the same name might have a connection to Al Qaeda... Some americans have connections to Al Qaeda. Let's ask France to liberate us!

Yep, Bush has been proven right, and will be re-elected in a landslide now.

Rofl, you truly are an imbecile.

And you are my student.

:boggle: I haven't read a comment THAT stupid in this forum since JLB left. Thanks!

Really... WHERE ?

Or are you just engaging in more fanatical ideological ranting without actually thinking about WHAT your saying...

so please.. WHERE ARE THE WMD's?
(or are WE still proving YOU wrong?)

Sarin is a WMD.

We found some.

Case closed.

You lose.

You appear a "little" misguided...

He said that before he had evidence. Now he has some.

Duh!!

So then, where is this EVIDENCE, GEORGE has (personally) referred to?

in case u cant read what u posted...
so "where" did George say he has "evidence" ??
Duh!! ... cant even read what u posted.

Where ???
Do you have links ?

There you go, read and weap:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1110210.htm

http://www.krcg.com/news/news_detail...ry_number=7532

straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/ story/0,4386,251511,00.html

A shell used by insurgents more than likely more than 10 years old and by all accounts (by US Military in Iraq, nonetheless) is more than likely an insignificant find. Wow. If this is where you're reaching on the WMDs that supposedly were such a threat to the United States that 800 US soldiers had to die, I have a bridge to sell you.

That shell was illegal, and could kill 10 thousand people at one time.

Bush has been proven right.

If the "inspections" that Blix was conducting had been working, that shell would have been destroyed years ago.

Isn't this shell evidence of the ineffectiveness of these un inspections?

I think thats an exaggeration, if I ever heard one...

didn't you read the article yourself?
I guess that explains WHY you didn't directly quote the article yourself.

Obviously Bush was a 'chicken-shit' - if he thought "a very small amount" of Sarin, in a road-side bomb, possed an "imminent" threat to the US.