Interestingly, the matter about the embassy makes EJ Epstein's revelation this year about the "Hamburg Student" entry in the appointment calendar ring truer.
Atta/Prague new information (Edward Jay Epstein)
5) Al-Ani scheduled a meeting on April 8,2001 with a "Hamburg student" according to an appointment calendar subsequently turned up by Czech intelligence in a surreptitious search of the Iraq Embassy (presumably after the defeat of Iraq in April 2003.)
5) Al-Ani scheduled a meeting on April 8,2001 with a "Hamburg student" according to an appointment calendar subsequently turned up by Czech intelligence in a surreptitious search of the Iraq Embassy (presumably after the defeat of Iraq in April 2003.)
6) Al-Ani was observed meeting a young Arab-speaking man on the outskirts of Prague on April 8th by a watcher for Czech counterintelligence.
Could it be that CIA or someone else have changed the date to make it less likely that the meeting took place?
Edward Jay Epstein has a new section on the May 30 meeting. He claims the Czechs have a picture of Atta at the airport. That would be in direct contradiction to the 9/11 report, which says it wasn't Atta - but someone else.
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/tenetonprague.htm
In response to a letter from Senator Carl Levin concerning the CIA's investigation of Mohammed Atta, CIA Director George Tenet stated:
"We have been able to corroborate only two visits by Atta to the Czech Republic: one in late 1994, when he passed through en route to Syria; the other in June 2000, when, according to detainee reporting, he departed for the United states from Prague because he thought a non-EU member country would be less likely to keep meticulous travel data."
Did Tenet miss a third trip by Atta to the Czech Republic on May 30,2000 which would call into question the "detainee reporting" on which Tenet relies?
Answer:
Yes. According to Czech officials, Atta flew on Lufthansa Airlines from Hamburg to Ruzyne International Airport visit on May 30,2000-- a day before the Czech visa he applied for came through. Atta's face was reportedly recorded on the security CCTV at the passport control, when Atta was directed to the transit area. Although he spent about 6 hours before he returned to Germany, he reputedly appears on the hidden security cameras for only 6 minutes. According to Czech intelligence officials, only a person familiar with the blind spots in the security system could have avoided these cameras for such a prolonged period. So Czech intelligence assumed that Atta, who would not himself have this knowledge, had a meeting with an unknown party on May 30th. If so, the "detainee reporting" is inaccurate.