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Saturday, June 26, 2004
YOU SAY "AZZAWI," I SAY
"AHMAD." A couple of Media Log readers pointed me to
this
excellent post by Juan Cole
on the matter of that top official for Saddam Hussein who's been
linked to Al Qaeda.
As I noted
earlier, even promoters of this link, such as the Weekly
Standard's William Kristol and Stephen Hayes, have conceded there
was a possibility that they were talking about two different people
with the same name.
Well, Cole shows that they
don't have the same name. Never mind! He writes:
The al-Qaeda employee in
Malaysia is named Ahmad Hikmat Shakir Azzawi.
The Iraqi intelligence agent is
named Lt. Col. Hikmat Shakir Ahmad.
...
Do you notice how they are not
the same?
Cole adds, "Isn't it a shame that
we have these key people doing important things who are either
incompetent ignoramuses or dumb as posts?" Well, uh, yes. More than a
shame.
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