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Senior US intelligence sources say the CIA has 'credible information' that in the spring of this year, at least two other members of the hijacking team (besides Atta) also met known Iraqi intelligence agents outside the United States. They are believed to be Atta's closest associates and co-leaders, Marwan al-Shehri and Ziad Jarrah, the other two members of the 'German cell ' who lived with Atta in Hamburg in the late 1990s.

growl!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the flag!

[Victoria Delsoul]

However, what Zeinab had to say about the southern part of the camp was new. There, he said, separated from the rest of the facilities by a razor-wire fence, was a barracks used to house Islamic radicals, many of them Saudis from bin Laden's Wahhabi sect, but also Egyptians, Yemenis, and other non-Iraqi Arabs.

Unlike the other parts of Salman Pak, Zeinab said the foreigners' camp was controlled directly by Saddam Hussein. In a telephone interview with The Observer, Zeinab described the culture clash which took place when secular Baathists tried to train fundamentalists: 'It was a nightmare! A very strange experience. These guys would stop and insist on praying to Allah five times a day when we had training to do. The instructors wouldn't get home till late at night, just because of all this praying.'

Muslims pray five times and bow five times a day to a black stone in Mecca, and encircle it seven times just as if the Kaaba were an idol.

[Travis McGee]

VIP: Very Important Post.

This article is almost the written equivalent of the PBS "Frontline" documentary which aired last week called "Gunning for Saddam", which is a "must see".