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Mohammed Atta met Saddam prior to September 11: US official
Agence France-Presse | September 8, 2002

Posted on 09/08/2002 7:36:33 AM PDT by HAL9000

MILAN, Sept 8 (AFP) - Mohammed Atta consulted Saddam Hussein prior to leading the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, according to Richard Perle, an advisor to the US defense secretary.

"Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that, and we are sure he wasn't just there for a holiday," Perle told Italy's business daily "Il Sole 24 Ore".

"The meeting is one of the motives for an American attack on Iraq," added Perle, who is chairman of the Defense Policy Board and consultant to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a leading advocate of an attack on Iraq.

"The main objective of the American administration is to avoid weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands," said Perle.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 200209; atta; dpb; france; iraq; perle; richardperle; rumsfeld; saddamhussein
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1 posted on 09/08/2002 7:36:33 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Bada-Bing!
2 posted on 09/08/2002 7:39:15 AM PDT by cmsgop
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To: HAL9000
Tom Daschole will be stunned.
3 posted on 09/08/2002 7:41:05 AM PDT by austingirl
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To: HAL9000
And just how hard would it be for ANYONE to get in to see one of the most protected and paranoid heads of state on the planet? Next to impossible, I would guess. A nobody like Atta get a meeting with Saddam. Looks like the case is being nailed shut, folks.
4 posted on 09/08/2002 7:42:05 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
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To: HAL9000
Aha! Looks like we have a BINGO!
5 posted on 09/08/2002 7:42:26 AM PDT by A. Morgan
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To: HAL9000
Let's Rock!
6 posted on 09/08/2002 7:44:17 AM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: HAL9000
Once again, the American Press ignores facts that do not support their politcal agenda.
7 posted on 09/08/2002 7:44:31 AM PDT by copycat
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To: HAL9000
"Mohammed Atta met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad prior to September 11. We have proof of that, and we are sure he wasn't just there for a holiday," Perle told Italy's business daily "Il Sole 24 Ore". Meantime, at the "Smoking Gun Saloon" in South Dakota,

Paging Mr Daschle, Paging Mr. Daschle.

8 posted on 09/08/2002 7:44:42 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: hflynn
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9 posted on 09/08/2002 7:45:10 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: HAL9000
If this is true, we have our smoking gun, and it better well be story number ONE for big media!

This is reason enough to attack Iraq today. Avenge the 9/11 murders!!!!!!

10 posted on 09/08/2002 7:47:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: austingirl
Tom Daschole will be stunned.

I think you mean "troubled." ;-)

11 posted on 09/08/2002 7:50:03 AM PDT by JamesWilson
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To: cmsgop
Bada-Bing!

MAJOR if true. Too early to tell. This is a new one and has all the earmarks of a trial balloon.

12 posted on 09/08/2002 7:51:30 AM PDT by dennisw
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yes,yes and yes.......:*)
13 posted on 09/08/2002 7:57:27 AM PDT by cmsgop
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To: dennisw
MAJOR if true. Too early to tell. This is a new one and has all the earmarks of a trial balloon.

"trial balloon?"

If this is truth, why doesn't Bush just get on the air and make this public? Why does it have to be leaked to Ile Sole which is in turn quoted by AFP?

14 posted on 09/08/2002 7:57:53 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: HAL9000
If this is the case, we should've started the build up the day after we found out.
15 posted on 09/08/2002 7:59:22 AM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids
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To: austingirl
Tom Daschole will be stunned.

And don't you find it most interesting that during the Clintoon administration, the same folks, including the Hon. Mr. Daschole tried to push a resolution of war through on flimsier evidence than there is now. All of the sudden, he's got reservations. Hmmmm.....

By the way, Tony Snow had some great parting thoughts on Fox News Sunday this morning.

16 posted on 09/08/2002 8:00:00 AM PDT by ward_of_the_state
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
I wonder if this is a planted story that the French will be able to refute and "prove" that Atta wasn't really in Baghdad.
17 posted on 09/08/2002 8:20:04 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: ward_of_the_state
By the way, Tony Snow had some great parting thoughts on Fox News Sunday this morning.

For those of us who didn't catch it, would you please share with us what those thoughts were.

18 posted on 09/08/2002 8:21:26 AM PDT by jslade
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To: Fitzcarraldo
"I wonder if this is a planted story that the French will be able to refute and "prove" that Atta wasn't really in Baghdad."

If Perle did say it, believe it!

19 posted on 09/08/2002 8:22:10 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
If Perle did say it, believe it!

That's the question. Or was he misquoted? Any independent confirmation?

20 posted on 09/08/2002 8:26:10 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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