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2004-06-22 Iraq-Jordan

Saddam Fedayeen officer linked to al-Qaeda may result from name confusion

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-06-22 12:23:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Another nameless "senior administration official". Uh huh.

Posted by someone 2004-06-22 12:45:01 AM|| 2004-06-22 12:45:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's so "obvious" that the WaPo doesn't feel that there's a need to follow-up on this potential connection.

Any photographs in Lt. Col. Hikmat Shakir Ahmad's file that we can compare with Ahmad Hikmat Shakir Azzawi's Malaysia file?

Posted by danking70 2004-06-22 1:06:16 PM|| 2004-06-22 1:06:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3
Keep in mind that Al-Qaeda needed Iraq for the latter's ability to provide chemical and biological weapons. Al-Qaeda did not need Iraq's help for the 9/11 attack.

I think that Iraq's apparent involvement in this Malaysia meeting and Iraq's meetings with Atta in Prague are related to a parallel plot to prepare a later chemical or biological attack on the USA. Iraq certainly could have been involved in this and yet be entirely ignorant about the 9/11 attack.

When Atta was in the USA he, it seems, spent some of his time doing basic research about crop dusters. We know for certain that Massoui researched crop dusters. It seems that at least one of Atta's fellow jackers was injured by anthrax while in the USA. Al-Qaeda's main expert on anthrax lived in Malaysia. Put this altogether, and Iraq fits right in -- even if Iraq does not fit directly into the 9/11 attack.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-22 1:42:49 PM|| 2004-06-22 1:42:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yup. I don't know why the anthrax stuff is conveniently forgotten by the MSM.

Posted by someone 2004-06-22 1:45:02 PM|| 2004-06-22 1:45:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Allegations that Ahmad Hikmat Shakir Azzawi was under Iraqi intelligence control were raised last year in an article in the Weekly Standard by Stephen F. Hayes, and later discounted by U.S. intelligence officials.
I don't think the MSM is entirely to blame for not pursuing links between Iraqi intelligence officers and attacks on the USS Cole, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The CIA/FBI has consistently denied any link and according to Jayna Davis, author of "The Third Terrorist", have been purposely obstructive to any investigator trying to uncover such links.

I'll bet anything the reason the US does not want the MSM to pursue this story, and alluded to by Jayna Davis in a recent radio interview, has a great deal to do with the fact that the Iraqi intelligence officers in the US were brought here as a result of the asylum given to them after Gulf War I. George Bush Sr. agreed to the asylum plan and Clinton implemented the agreement. So you have 2 Presients innocently providing a safe haven to terrorists at taxpayers expense, no less. The American public would be furious, if this story came out. That's my theory for what it's worth.

Posted by rex 2004-06-22 2:05:19 PM|| 2004-06-22 2:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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