[The Great Satan]

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.

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.

[piasa]

Isikoff says Shakir may be in Iraq, but I wonder if instead he's become a missing person with a courtesy ticket to an undiscosed location of the US's choice.

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.