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WSJ: Saddam's Files Show 'Direct' 9/11 Link (Salman Pak)
Newsmax.com & Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/27/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 05/27/2004 7:33:19 AM PDT by sathers

Newly uncovered files examined by US 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 September 11, 2001.

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

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

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 Mukahbarrat intelligence service, Shakir was stationed at the Iraqi embassy in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the 9/11 planning session.

Also in attendance, 9/11 highjackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi who piloted American Airlines Filght 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon.

Ramzi 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 boming, were also at the meeting the Journal said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; afterbash; ahmedhikmatshakir; alqaeda911link; alqaedaandiraq; bush2004; khalidalmidha; nawazalhamzi; post911; saddam; salmanpak; wallstreetjournal; wsj
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To: M. Peach
Short answer...LAWYERS...long answer below:

"The administration does not want the victims of Sept. 11 interfering with its foreign policy," says Peter M. Leitner, director of the Washington Center for Peace and Justice (WCPJ). Leitner says the Bush administration may be concerned that if other victims of the Sept. 11 attacks also filed lawsuits and won civil-damage awards it would reduce Iraqi resources that the administration wants to use to rebuild the country. Leitner and others say this explains Bush's reticence at this time to report the convincing evidence linking Saddam and al-Qaeda that has been collected by U.S. investigators and private organizations seeking damages. "The [Bush] administration is intentionally changing the topic," claims Leitner, and sidestepping the issue that "Iraq has been in a proxy war against the U.S. for years and has used al-Qaeda in that war against the United States."

Source

21 posted on 05/27/2004 7:42:13 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: sathers

Could anyone link the WSJ story. I don't put much faith in NewsMax to get it right. They can't even sort out their sorry subscription department. I sent in my $45 bucks, got the hat and the cards but never got the magazine. Three calls yeilded no results. I've seen other freepers w/ similar problems. I wish them all the best but they won't get another penny of mine. And I do wonder about how reliable their news is, given my experience. It is my observation that customer service is an excellent indicator of product quality, as counter intuitive as that seems. (Great products don't need service, etc.)


22 posted on 05/27/2004 7:42:19 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: cspackler
You'll never hear a word of this on the networks, trust me...

Yup I agree.

23 posted on 05/27/2004 7:42:45 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: 1Old Pro; prairiebreeze; onyx; Texasforever; CyberAnt; BigSkyFreeper; dixiechick2000; Tamsey; ...
The anti-war playbook read by the anti-American liberals and Dem politicians is slowly being totally discredited.

As we knew it would .. it was just a matter of time

Beware though ... this means the Left will go into even more of a melt down

24 posted on 05/27/2004 7:42:49 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: sathers
Can't be! Must be fudging with the documents. The crap weasels dems were assured by OBL, Saddam and many kerrorist groups. Hell, even the NYT said there was np connection. These lefties know after all.

I never understood why these American hating traitors would get up there and scream (1) "There is no connection," and (2) "there are no WMD" when any day they could be proven to be wrong.

Doesn't matter, however, because the ultra-left wing media wouldn't report on the connection if there was a tape of it. It does not work toward the destruction of the US, why report it, especially if they can report on the phoney Brit prison pictures, for example.

25 posted on 05/27/2004 7:42:51 AM PDT by Tacis (,)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

I wish Dan Burton could have gotten to the bottom of that question..


26 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:05 AM PDT by sathers
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To: sathers

Boy I would love to see Chrissy Matthews swallow this bag of feathers.


27 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:13 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: sathers

That isn't what Sean Penn says!


28 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:13 AM PDT by JoeGar
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To: Shryke

Galt finally got kicked out of here? That guy was really a creep. I wonder what it was that he said that finally did it.


29 posted on 05/27/2004 7:43:37 AM PDT by jpl ("You can go to a restaurant in New York City and meet a foreign leader."- John Kerry)
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To: M. Peach

Rope-a-Dope a think.


30 posted on 05/27/2004 7:44:13 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: Jack Black
You can get Newsmax magazine at your local newsstand, that's where I usually buy it. (but there is no premimum gift offfer)

Ill look for the WSJ article.

31 posted on 05/27/2004 7:45:39 AM PDT by sathers
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To: sathers; Jethro Tull

FYI


32 posted on 05/27/2004 7:45:55 AM PDT by bvw
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To: sathers
Good luck with this. Unless Bush calls this a smoking gun, it is a nothing story. Same as the sarin gas. He won't call it a WMD smoking gun, so it's not being reported as that.

Maybe he is waiting for the right moment. We shall see.

33 posted on 05/27/2004 7:46:24 AM PDT by Protagoras (Control is the objective , freedom is the obstacle.)
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To: Piquaboy

bttt


34 posted on 05/27/2004 7:47:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin ( . . .preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves)
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To: areafiftyone

Now, if some summer intern made a comment at a bar that her freind said that she heard that her boyfriend heard some "high ranking official" say that there never was a connection, they'd be on that like buzzards on a gut wagon.


35 posted on 05/27/2004 7:48:02 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

The best toast is TEXAS TOAST! :)

They should serve some to the media the next time the President goes to Crawford to eat with their crow!


36 posted on 05/27/2004 7:48:11 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04 -- Losing is not an Option!)
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To: Jack Black
Someone posted the Wall Street Journal story here:

New evidence of a link between Iraq and al Qaeda.

37 posted on 05/27/2004 7:48:19 AM PDT by maryz
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To: Protagoras

The liberal media is already shouting from the rooftops 'Sarin shell before 1991!' so they wont look like compelte fools.


38 posted on 05/27/2004 7:48:34 AM PDT by sathers
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To: jpl

It was the Sarin gas thread. Galt adamantly refused to admit Sarin was a WMD ("The only WMDs are nukes"), and then ramped right up into his Soccer Mom/Hard on Treason/True Conservative/Illegal War sh!t. Nothing worse than an insulting big-mouth that won't admit their wrong (a la Clinton).


39 posted on 05/27/2004 7:48:57 AM PDT by Shryke (Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
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To: sathers

You won't see this on CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBC.


40 posted on 05/27/2004 7:49:37 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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