Mohammad Atta’s Decisive Meeting

Respekt ^ | Nov. 10, 2003 | Jaroslav Spurny

[Tailgunner Joe]

Immediately after the occupation of Baghdad, the CIA succeeded in obtaining nearly the complete archive of the Foreign Ministry and some of the material belonging to the Iraqi secret service. Czech security organs now have access to documents from Iraq

[mattdono]

That's really not possible. That would mean that was an Iraq-Al Queda connection.

Messrs. Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather, as well as 9 outstanding candidates for the democrat nomination have told us that there wasn't a connection, so I just don't know how this could be.

</gobs of sarcasm>

[Shermy]

ping.

[Shermy]

Don't worry. Isikoff will write another piece showing Cheney to be a liar.

< /sarcasm>

[Paul Ross]

Indeed.

[Shermy]

Here's the 2002 Respekt article, geographical mistakes and all.

http://respekt.inway.cz/english/priloha-eng-2002-43-01.php

[justshutupandtakeit]

Thanks, good post. Maybe if we keep screaming about this from the rooftops the RATmedia will not be able to keep it suppressed.

[not-alone]

interesting post thanks

[Shermy]

Related story and posts here.

Iraq, 9/11 Still Linked By Cheney

[aristeides]

In his report a year ago, Glenn A. Fine, the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department, rejected the possibility of Atta’s April visit. In the document, he asserted that two days before the supposed Prague meeting, Atta flew from Virginia Beach to New York and, 70 hours later, was again in Florida. Atta could have managed the Prague meeting only with difficulty. Yet, according to new and as yet unpublished information from U.S. security services, there exists no record of Atta’s movement from the beginning of March 2001 to the end of April of that year.

I wonder why the change. Have we determined that somebody was impersonating Atta?

[ladyinred]

I have more problem believing that Saddam wasn't linked to 911( among other things), than I do with not believing he was.

Good post.

[Shermy]

In his report a year ago, Glenn A. Fine, the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department, rejected the possibility of Atta’s April visit.

This is the second article from this mag mentioning this report, yet I can find no mention of it anywhere else.

[eno_]

The CIA is convinced that Atta’s terrorist group must have been led by professionals from an intelligence service, perhaps Iraq’s.

I love that "perhaps." Leaves ample room for it to turn out to have been Iran.

[aristeides]

Czech officials are willing to leak the report when U.S. officials are not?

[woofie]

Yep we all know it was Bush's fault not Saddam's

[Shermy]

Nov. 19 Edward Jay Epstein article on slate:

Prague Revisited - The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away.

[Shermy]

I think so. And a year ago.

[Shermy]

I wonder why the change. Have we determined that somebody was impersonating Atta?

Or it was wrong in the first place...or someone was using his credit card or name...

One interpretation of the almost vehement and confusing links to the press, even disinformation, about Prague is "CYA." Perhaps it was known and not followed up.

[Cicero]

This business has puzzled me for a long time. Either George Tenet is a traitor (which would not be surprising, considering his connection with the traitor clinton) or Bush is saving this up for an October Surprise next year.

There were numerous connections between Iraq and al Quaeda, and I've never seen a plausible explanation for Tenet's repeated denials that the Prague meeting with Atta took place, despite continuing confirmation from the Czechs.

I wouldn't put it past Bush to let the media hang themselves over this issue, and then come out with the facts. He's done it several times before. But I think the stronger probability is that Tenet is a traitor.

[aristeides]

The feds haven't just been denying the Prague meeting, they've been trying, most implausibly, to lay the blame for the anthrax on Hatfill. And, in the latter case, it's the FBI, not the CIA. I assume the two phenomena are related.