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It would seem as though a Lt. Colonel in Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen military force was quite involved with al Qaeda and the planning of 9/11.

Newsmax - Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who attended a January 2000 al Qaida summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where the 9/11 attacks were planned, is listed among the officers on three Fedayeen rosters reviewed by U.S. probers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

"Our government sources, who have seen translations of the documents, say Shakir is listed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel," the paper said.

Though the Journal doesn't mention it, Saddam's Fedayeen has been identified in previous reports as the group that conducted 9/11-style hijack training drills on a parked Boeing 707 airliner at the south Baghdad terrorist camp Salman Pak.

In a post obtained through Saddam's Mukahbarrat intelligence service, Shakir was stationed at the Iraqi embassy in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the 9/11 planning session.

Also in attendance, 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Midhar and Nawaz al Hamzi, who piloted 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.

When Shakir was arrested in Qatar on Sept. 17, 2001, he was carrying phone numbers of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers' safe houses and contacts, as well as information relating to Operation Bojinka, a plot devised by trade center bomber Ramzi Yousef that became the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks.

So lets sum this information up. Saddam Hussein had an elite fighting force called Fedayeen. A Lt. Colonel in that force was in Kuala Lampur during a known al Qaeda meeting where the 9/11 attacks were planned. Before the attacks were carried out, the Lt. Colonel's military group, the Fedayeen, practiced 9/11-style hijacking maneuvers. After the attacks, this Lt. Colonel was found with phone numbers and other information that linked him directly to 9/11.

It hasn't been confirmed yet but if this is true it is very good news for the President.