FACT: Even if they aren't the same Shakir, we know that the "al-Qaida" Shakir was provided a job by the Iraqi Embassy to greet arriving passengers at Kula Lumpar Airport. The CIA has pictures of the "al Qaida" Shakir meeting 911 hijacker Kahlid al Midhar at the airport and then leaving with him to attend a meeting with al Hazmi (another hijacker) along with other top 911 planners. Shakir quit his "job" as a greeter two days after the meeting
FACT: "al-Qaida" Shakir was arrested in Qatar, released to Jordan where he was arrested again and then released to Iraq at the request of top Iraqi officials.
Iraq has their fingerprints all over this with their questionable association with "al-Qaida" Shakir and whether he was also the Shakir in the Fedayeen is interesting, but beside the point.
Hence the need to cast doubt by crafting a nebulous headline above an indeterminant story quoting an anonymous source
Yours is precisely the post I was about to make, but you are there first.
The left has an uncanny ability to focus intently on the irrelevant details in order to obscure the crucial facts.
Your post bears repeating:
FACT: Even if they aren't the same Shakir, we know that the "al-Qaida" Shakir was provided a job by the Iraqi Embassy to greet arriving passengers at Kula Lumpar Airport. The CIA has pictures of the "al Qaida" Shakir meeting 911 hijacker Kahlid al Midhar at the airport and then leaving with him to attend a meeting with al Hazmi (another hijacker) along with other top 911 planners. Shakir quit his "job" as a greeter two days after the meeting
FACT: "al-Qaida" Shakir was arrested in Qatar, released to Jordan where he was arrested again and then released to Iraq at the request of top Iraqi officials.
Iraq has their fingerprints all over this with their questionable association with "al-Qaida" Shakir and whether he was also the Shakir in the Fedayeen is interesting, but beside the point.