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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472411/posts?page=66#66
To: RWR8189; Cindy; Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts?q=1&;page=41
...HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW TODAY about Ahmed Hikmat Shakir. In August 1999, Shakir, a 37-year-old Iraqi, accepted a position as a “facilitator” at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A “facilitator” works for an airline and assists VIP travelers with paperwork required for entry and other logistical issues. Shakir got the job because someone in the Iraqi embassy in Malaysia wanted him to have it. He started that fall.
Although Shakir officially worked for Malaysian Airlines, his contact in the Iraqi embassy controlled his schedule. On January 5, 2000, Shakir apparently received an assignment from his embassy contact. He was to escort a recent arrival through immigration at the airport.
Khalid al Mihdhar, a well-connected al Qaeda member who would later help hijack American Airlines Flight 77, had come to Malaysia for an important al Qaeda meeting that would last at least three days. (Shakir may have also assisted Nawaf al Hazmi, another hijacker, thought to have arrived on January 4, 2000.)
Malaysian intelligence photographed Shakir greeting al Mihdhar at the airport and walking him to a waiting car. But rather than see the new arrival off, he hopped in the car with al Mihdhar and accompanied him to the meeting.
Malaysian intelligence has provided its photographs to the CIA. While U.S. officials can place Shakir at the meeting with the hijackers and several high-ranking al Qaeda operatives, they do not know whether Shakir participated actively. (Also present at the meeting were Hambali, al Qaeda’s top man in South Asia, and Khallad, later identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole.)
The meeting concluded on January 8, 2000. Shakir reported to work at the airport on January 9 and January 10, and then never again. Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi also disappeared briefly, then flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles on January 15, 2000. Shakir, the Iraqi-born facilitator, would be arrested six days after the September 11 attacks by authorities in Doha, Qatar. According to an October 7, 2002, article by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, “A search of Shakir’s apartment in Doha, the country’s capital, yielded a treasure trove, including telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Project Bojinka, a 1994 Manila plot to blow up civilian airliners over the Pacific Ocean.” (Isikoff, it should be noted, has been a prominent skeptic of an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.)
Shakir had contact information for a lot of bad people. As noted, one was a Kuwaiti, Ibrahim Suleiman, whose fingerprints were found on the bombmaking manuals U.S. authorities allege were used in preparation for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Suleiman was convicted of perjury and deported to Jordan. Another was Musab Yasin, the brother of 1993 Trade Center bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin. Yet another was Zahid Sheikh Mohammed, brother of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, now in U.S. custody. Shakir also had an old number for Taba Investments, an al Qaeda front group. It was the number long used by Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim, the highest-ranking Iraqi member of al Qaeda. According to testimony from al Qaeda informants, Salim maintained a good relationship with Saddam’s intelligence service.
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Who was it that Hikmat Shakir’s charges future 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi, met with after their arrival in Los Angeles and later followed all the way to his new mosque in Falls Church, Va?
Imam Anwar al Awlaki / al Aulaqi, the Imam of Major Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who wanted to try US troops assigned to him as his patients for war crimes and who opted to just murder 14 other US troops at fort Hood in November 2009.
Who was the inspiration of the Fort Dix plotters?
Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.
Who helped the crotch bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab of Nigeria make his preparations to murder more than 200 people on Christmas Day this year when the bomber visited Yemen?
Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.
Given how the 9/11 Commission’s libs relegated Hikmat Shakir’s involvement with the perps in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing on up to the perps of the 2000 USS Cole bombing and even 9/11 hijackers to the footnotes...
No wonder the libs are freaked out over Ft. Hood and this latest attempt on an aircraft.
66 posted on December 29, 2009 11:32:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581445,00.html
“Airline Terror Mission Blessed by Radical Imam”
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
“Radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki”
SNIPPET: “The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.
The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI’s interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of his jihad training to the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by al-Awlaki.”
Hat Tip:
MamaDearest’s post on The Threat Matrix on FreeRepublic.com.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2181917/posts?page=2029#2029
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http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=AlMaghrib+Institute&cf=all&scoring=n
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http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=262555
“Airline attacker spent time in Houston”
12/30/2009 12:44 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
SNIPPET: “Federal officials are following leads as to why Abdul-Mutallab was in Houston. The details are classified.”
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http://www.freep.com/article/20091230/NEWS02/91230065/1318/Suspect-studied-Islam-in-Houston
POSTED: 7:56 P.M. DEC. 30, 2009
“Airline bomb suspect studied Islam at Houston school with Detroit branch”
BY BILL LAITNER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
SNIPPET: “Nigerian defendant Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, in federal custody in Milan, attended classes in 2008 in Houston at the AlMaghrib Institute, said institute Vice President Waleed Basyouni.
Abdulmutallab told instructors he was studying mechanical engineering and finance in London, Basyouni said.
“AlMaghrib Institute is working with the authorities and will continue to cooperate as needed on this case,” he said in an e-mail to the Free Press. In Houston, besides operating the institute, Basyouni is the imam or religious leader of a major Muslim worship and community complex called Clear Lake Islamic Center.”
SNIPPET: “Abdulmutallab attended while in Houston on Aug. 1-17, 2008, paying $2,250 for seminars on Islamic manners and history, Basyouni said.”