Sparks is to Cheney as Peter Parker is to Spiderman
The Untold 9/11 Story
VIEW FROM THE RIGHT
- Adam Sparks, Special to SF Gate
Monday, June 28, 2004
…New Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Link
One problem is there's a reason they're not final reports: Not all the pertinent information is included. "There's new intelligence, and this has come since our [most recent] staff report has been written," former U.S. Navy Secretary John Lehman announced on "Meet the Press."
Lehman explained that the newly captured documents "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaeda. One striking bit of new evidence is that the name Ahmed Hikmat Shakir appears on three captured rosters of officers in Saddam Fedayeen, the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday and entrusted with doing much of the regime's dirty work. Our government sources, who have seen translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of lieutenant colonel." An unnamed source in the administration has said Lehman may have made a misidentification and the matter is still under investigation.
