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Thursday, June 24, 2004
Quote of the Day Political Scientist Christopher Carney, who was brought in to look at documents by Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans so as to second-guess trained analysts at the CIA who actually know Arabic, first made the mistake of identifying the two. Carney is an Americanist at Penn State and had no business butting in. The family name (here, nisba) of the al-Qaeda guy in Malaysia is Azzawi. The family name of the guy in Iraqi intelligence is Ahmad. Do you notice how they are not the same? The personal or first name of the al-Qaeda guy is Ahmad. The personal or first name of the Iraqi intelligence agent is Hikmat. Do you notice how it is not the same? So, Ahmad Azzawi is not Hikmat Ahmad. See how easy that is? Mr. Ahmad Azzawi has a couple of middle names, to wit, Hikmat Shakir. Having a couple of middle names is common in the Arab world. Lt. Col. Hikmat Ahmad just has one middle name, Shakir. This is the only place at which there is any overlap between them at all. They share a middle name. And, o.k., one of Azzawi's middle names is the same as Lt. Col. Ahmad's first name. --Juan Cole brutally takes Christopher Carney apart |