Kevin D. Korenthal, May 29, 2004

The Wall Street Journal, unlike the majority of the Mess Media have been hot on the trail of the documents and witnesses that can either confirm or deny Saddam had a hand in the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

The article is available to WSJ paid subscribers only, but fortunately, NewsMax and WorldNetDaily both reported on the findings.

Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir was a member of Saddam's Fedayeen Army, the extension of the military that handled most of Saddam's dirty work and was commanded originally by Saddam's rapist, torturer son Uday. It appears that Lt. Col. Shakir was present in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia for a previously known al-Qaida "summit" that took place just a few months prior to the attacks. It is reported that the rosters for the Fedayeen Army are vetted out as fully authentic yet more (of the millions) of documents need to be studied.

Reported accounts of the al-Qaida planning summit said Shakir had a job at the Kuala Lumpur airport he obtained through an Iraqi intelligence agent at the Iraqi embassy. Also in attendance were 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi, who were piloting American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon.

Ramzi bin 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 bombing, were also at the meeting, the Journal said.

Shakir left Malaysia four days after the summit finished, Jan. 13, 2000, then turned up in Qatar, where he was arrested Sept. 17, 2001, four days after the attacks.

A search uncovered phone numbers of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers' safe houses and contacts and information related to a 1995 al-Qaida plot to blow up a dozen commercial airliners over the Pacific.

But Shakir, inexplicably, was released after a brief detention and flew to Amman, Jordan, where he was arrested again. The Jordanians released him, however, with the OK of the CIA, after pressure from the Iraqis and Amnesty International.

He was last seen returning to Baghdad.

Noting the volume of evidence, the Journal said, "One of the mysteries of postwar Iraq is why the Bush Administration and our $40-billion-a-year intelligence services haven't devoted more resources to probing the links between Saddam's regime and al-Qaida."

US Intelligence services still have not confirmed Saddam had operational ties to the 9/11 attacks but neither have they said anything to the contrary.

A November 24th Weekly Standard Article lays out 50 other points tying Saddam to participants in the attacks. It also ties an Iraqi Intelligence official to the 1993 World Trade Center Bombings. The article was based on a leaked intelligence memo and was said to be "not accurate" by the Defense Department.

Millions of memos and briefs and other communications seized in Iraq have yet to be translated and disseminated. Millions more may have gone missing in the looting that followed the fall of The Saddam Regime. It may be a very long time before we have all the answers but it is clear that The Bush Administration owes it to the American people to tell us what they KNOW now.

The liberal media, as a whole is not talking about this issue. They can get tours of Cuban Elementary schools with Fidel Castro himself, but are unable (or unwilling) to learn of how President Bush made the right choice and is vindicated by Saddam's participation in terrorist activities. The Media elite whom we have learned runs interference for the Democrats have no reason to be snooping around this subject. If it is learned all or some of this is true, it will spell disaster for the Democrats in the November elections.

Copyright © 2004 Kevin D. Korenthal