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Posted on 10/06/2002 10:00:40 PM PDT by jimkress
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "U.S. TRACKED TOP AL QAEDA PLANNER'S VISIT TO BAGHDAD" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. intelligence agencies have verified reports that Abu Musab Zarqawi met with people in Baghdad in the summer after fleeing Afghanistan when the United States began strikes to dislodge the ruling Taliban and kill al Qaeda members.") (100402)
BBC NEWS: "UN DRAFT SETS TOUGH DEMANDS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iraq's Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan has rejected the proposals: "The stance from the inspectors has been decided and any additional procedure that aims at harming Iraq won't be accepted."") (092802)
BBC NEWS: "BLAIR OUTLINES IRAQ EVIDENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The dossier claims Iraq has: * Continued to produce chemical and biological agents. * Drawn up military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons. * Tried to acquire from Africa material and technology for the production of nuclear weapons. * Illegally retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles with a range of 650km, capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads. * Begun developing ballistic missiles with a range of more than 1,000km. * Learnt how to conceal equipment and documentation from weapons inspectors") (092402)
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002: "STEALING THE FIRE" (NY Premiere) - "Stealing The Fire" is directed by John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler. This documentary video was produced in USA/Germany. (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Filmed over five years on four continents, Stealing the Fire focuses on Karl-Heinz Schaab, a German technician convicted of treason in 1999 for selling top secret nuclear weapons plans to Iraq. The film unflinchingly exposes a web of government and corporate intrigue and lays bare an unbroken chain of events and people that connects today's nuclear weapons underground with the atomic bomb program of Nazi Germany. Stealing the Fire investigates the 60-year history of a German multi-national corporation that directly profited from the Holocaust and in recent decades became a leading supplier of nuclear weapons technology to developing nations, including Iraq and Pakistan.")
ALBAWABA.com: "SADDAM SAYS AMERICAN TARGETS ALL ARABS; HAILS PALESTINIAN BOMBERS" [ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...Saddam also praised suicide attacks against Israel saying they will be "recorded in our history with shining letters."
"Whenever a (suicide) attack occurs against the enemy, I feel as if I carried it out myself and every Arab should look at these acts this way," Saddam said (Albawaba.com)"](071602)
OCTOBER 2001 : (IRAQI AHMAD HIKMAT SHAKIR, JORDAN) The Iraqi, Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, 37, was picked up October 2001 in Amman, and his passport showed he had recently traveled to Pakistan, Yemen and Malaysia, all key terror trouble spots. A search of one of his apartments turned up telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as a 1994 Philippine-based plot to blow up civilian airlines over the Pacific Ocean. - "Iraqi a Missing Link," by Aly Sujo, NY Post
Presumably Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the disco-dancing, skirt-chasing "muslim fundamentalist" who was on al-Jazeera last month describing how he organized the 9-11 attacks.
Or maybe he was let go on purpose, to see if he would go to Iraq and stay. Maybe he is what Rumsfeld was referring to when Rumsfeld said there was "bulletproof" evidence that senior Qaeda leaders were being harbored in Baghdad.
a) The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the US Federal Building which killed168 people; b) The 1996 bombing of Al Khobar Base in Saudi Arabia that left 19 American servicemen dead; c) The 1998 bombing of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, injuring more than 4, 500; d) The 2001 September 11, bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which left close to three thousand people dead and many injured.
I have always said that Saddam was behind each of these events. LET THE BOMBING BEGIN IN 5 MINUTES.
2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR IN QATAR) Ahmed Hikmat Shakir lives in Doha, Qatar, working as a civil servant in the country's Ministry of Religious Endowment. - "AL QAEDA'S MAN IN IRAQ?, " Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, © 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR ARRESTED IN QATAR) Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, an Iraqi and employee of the Qatari Ministry of Awqaf, was arrested by the Qatar authorities and reportedly ill-treated while being interrogated. He was not charged with any offence and was released from detention. - Amnesty International
SEPTEMBER 17, 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR PICKED UP BY QATAR) Six days after September 11, Qatari authorities picked Ahmad Hikmat Shakir up for questioning – but let him go. Yet 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 airlines over the Pacific Ocean. U.S. officials found an even more startling link, according to intelligence documents obtained by NEWSWEEK: Shakir had been present at a January 2000 Qaeda "summit" in Malaysia that was attended by two of the 9-11 hijackers. Authorities believe that the summit may have been a planning session for both the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole and 9-11. Shakir quickly left Qatar. - "AL QAEDA'S MAN IN IRAQ?, " Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, © 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
According to a senior Arab intelligence official, the Qataris “asked the Americans, ‘Where should we send this guy?’ ” The answer was, not the United States. The man, Ahmed Shakir, was sent to Jordan instead. The Jordanians have been good about sharing intelligence with the United States. The CIA prefers not to ask how the Jordanians obtain that intelligence - "Justice Kept In the Dark " by Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff, Newsweek - MSNBC Wednesday, December 5, 2001 via Bint Jabeil bintjabail.com
OCTOBER 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR LEAVES DOHA, QATAR FOR JORDAN) In October 2001, Ahmad Hikmat Shakir hopped on a commercial flight to Amman, intending to switch planes to Baghdad. When Jordanian authorities questioned him, Shakir claimed he was going home to visit relatives. The Jordanians didn't buy it, and neither did U.S. officials. But much about the handling of the case has raised concerns. FBI agents were not permitted to directly question Shakir. Now law-enforcement officials are left to wonder how a suspected Qaeda operative went from a jail cell in Jordan to what may be safe haven in Iraq. - "AL QAEDA'S MAN IN IRAQ?, " Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, © 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
OCTOBER 21, 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR IN JORDAN ) Ahmad Hikmat Shakir left Doha on October 21 for Iraq via Jordan. He is an Iraqi citizen aged 37 years, was arrested at Amman Airport on October 21 during a transit-stop on his way from Qatar to Iraq. It appears that his arrest may have been in connection with suspicions on the part of the Jordanian authorities relating to visits he had made to Pakistan, Yemen and Malaysia. Ahmad Hikmat Shakir was held in incommunicado detention for several weeks before being allowed access to a lawyer. - Amnesty International
OCTOBER 21, 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR IN JORDAN) In the weeks after the September 11 attacks, security officials around the world were on highest alert. So when a 37-year-old Iraqi national named Ahmad Hikmat Shakir stepped off a plane in Amman's Queen Alia airport on Oct. 21, Jordanian officials soon became suspicious. A quick review of his passport showed Shakir had recently traveled to Pakistan, Yemen and Malaysia – key stops on the terror trail. FBI agents were alerted. Within days they concluded that Shakir was no incidental traveler: he was, according to confidential U.S. intelligence reports, a suspected terrorist who had been in direct contact with some of the major operatives in the September 11 plot. - "AL QAEDA'S MAN IN IRAQ?, " Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, © 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
OCTOBER 2001 : (IRAQI AHMAD HIKMAT SHAKIR, JORDAN) The Iraqi, Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, 37, was picked up October 2001 in Amman, and his passport showed he had recently traveled to Pakistan, Yemen and Malaysia, all key terror trouble spots. A search of one of his apartments turned up telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as a 1994 Philippine-based plot to blow up civilian airlines over the Pacific Ocean. - "Iraqi a Missing Link," by Aly Sujo, NY Post
OCTOBER 2001 : (IRAQI SHAKIR ARRESTED IN JORDAN) A globe-trotting Iraqi, suspected of being a terrorist with ties to both al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, was arrested in Jordan after Sept. 11 and then mysteriously released, U.S. intelligence officials said. The Iraqi, Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, 37, was picked up last October2001 in Amman, and his passport showed he had recently traveled to Pakistan, Yemen and Malaysia, all key terror trouble spots. "Shakir connects with both Iraq and 9/11," a U.S. official told Newsweek. A search of one of his apartments turned up telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as a 1994 Philippine-based plot to blow up civilian airlines over the Pacific Ocean. Law-enforcement officials told the magazine they could not explain why Shakir was released and allowed to travel to safe haven in Iraq. - "IRAQI A MISSING LINK," By ALY SUJO, NY POST, SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
NOVEMBER 2001 : (JORDAN, IRAQI SHAKIR, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL) Amnesty International wrote to the Minister of Interior in November seeking assurances that Ahmad Hikmat Shakir was being humanely treated and not subjected to any kind of ill-treatment or torture as well as seeking information about his whereabouts, the reasons for his arrest, and whether any charges had been brought against him. By the end of January 2002 no reply had been received.
JANUARY 2002 : (IRAQI SHAKIR RELEASED, MAY BE IN IRAQ) But hopes that the FBI had nabbed a potential Qaeda source were soon dashed. Three months after he was detained, Shakir was inexplicably released by Jordanian authorities – and promptly vanished. NEWSWEEK has learned that some U.S. intelligence officials believe Shakir is now back home in Iraq. The Bush administration has made no public comments about Shakir and officials acknowledge they know little about his current activities. But Shakir's case may be the most tantalizing evidence yet to support the administration's contention that there are ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq. American intelligence officials may have traced a key Osama bin Laden operative to Saddam Hussein's home base, note Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman - "AL QAEDA'S MAN IN IRAQ?, " Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman with Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle, © 2002 Newsweek, Inc.
Because he got us back good and, right now, there's not a damn thing we can do about it -- that's why. ("THIS IS NEXT WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX YOU CAN NOT STOP US")
President Bush referred directly to it tonight. It's only the media and leftists that like to conveniently ignore such things.
Well, I'm glad SOMEBODY noticed it. Maybe we should start a thread, Scott.
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