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Monday, June 21, 2004
9/11 Commission Missed Something?!
Amazing:
They're trying to make me believe that the 9/11 Commission did not have access to "this latest intelligence"? Really. That's amazing because as recently as May 27, 2004 Junk Yard Blog commented on a Wall Street Journal report:
How was it that the 9/11 Commission missed this again? Maybe they're looking to miss things. Makes you wonder about their motivation, although that's sort of moot considering they've already blown their credibility.
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The Fedayeen were a special unit of volunteers given basic training in irregular warfare. The lieutenant colonel, Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, has the same name as an Iraqi thought to have attended a planning meeting for the Sept. 11 attacks in January 2000, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was also attended by two of the hijackers, Khalid al Midhar and Nawaf al Hamzi and senior al-Qaida leaders.
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Sunday, Lehman acknowledged that, "the vice president was right when he said he may have things that we don't yet have. And we are now in the process of getting this latest intelligence."
Democratic panel member Richard Ben-Veniste agreed that the panel should study any more recent intelligence, "If there is additional information, we're happy to look at it, and we think we should get it."
They're trying to make me believe that the 9/11 Commission did not have access to "this latest intelligence"? Really. That's amazing because as recently as May 27, 2004 Junk Yard Blog commented on a Wall Street Journal report:
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.
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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.
How was it that the 9/11 Commission missed this again? Maybe they're looking to miss things. Makes you wonder about their motivation, although that's sort of moot considering they've already blown their credibility.
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