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Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. GROSS'S STATEMENTS ON ATTA ENTER AMERICAN JUSTICE Czech News Agency Global News Wire May 9, 2003 PRAGUE, May 9 (CTK) - Interior Minister Stanislav Gross's statement that Muhammad Atta, the leader of the hijackers of aircraft from September 11, 2001, met with an Iraqi diplomat in Prague, has entered the U.S. judiciary, the daily Lidove noviny writes today. It was recognised as a piece of evidence by a court in New York on Wednesday which ruled that the terrorists who destroyed the New...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - A Czech cabinet minister on Friday became the first official to acknowledge that suspected suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent during a trip to the Czech Republic. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani was expelled from Prague on April 22, 2001 for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status. ``We can confirm now that during his ... trip to the Czech Republic he did have a contact with an officer of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Ahmad Khalil ...

<p>October 27, 2001 -- PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech officials confirmed yesterday that suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent during one of two trips to Prague.</p> <p>Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani's expulsion from Prague on April 22, 2001, for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status.</p>

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Mohammed Atta, a suspected pilot in Sept. 11 attacks, discussed plans to blow up the Radio Free Europe building in Prague when he met an Iraqi agent there earlier this year, the Czech Prime Minister said on Friday. "Atta contacted some Iraq agent, not to prepare the terrorist attack on twins (the World Trade Center twin towers), but to prepare a terrorist attack on just the building of Radio Free Europe," Czech leader Milos Zeman told CNN. "There were some plans to use the truck standard explosives to destroy the building," said Zeman, who is ...

Title: Czech Minister Doubts US Reports Questioning Atta's Contacts With Iraqi Agent Prague Lidove Noviny (Internet Version-WWW) in Czech 03 May 02 pp 1, 3 Subslug: Report by Petr Kolar and Silvie Blechova: "The United States Casts Doubt on the Czech Information on Atta" [FBIS Translated Excerpt] Prague/Washington -- Czech authorities' reports on one of the 11 September hijackers, Muhammad Atta, meeting with Iraqi agent al-Ani in Prague, suffered another setback. Quoting "unnamed US officials," two prestigious western media expressed doubts that the meeting had taken place at all. However, Interior Minister Stanislav Gross insists that the meeting took place....

PRAGUE (Reuters) - A leading Czech official has once again insisted that Mohammed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, met an Iraqi agent in Prague just months before crashing a plane into the World Trade Center. The weekly Prague Post was to report in its June 5 edition that Hynek Kmonicek, Czech envoy to the United Nations, had affirmed that a disputed meeting between Atta and Iraqi agent Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani took place in April 2001. The meeting, which several Czech officials have claimed took place and U.S....

Atta met Iraqi intelligence in Prague-U.S. source WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers of the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center, met with an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague in June 2000 and April 2001, a U.S. source said on Thursday. But the source cautioned, as have U.S. officials privately since the attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, that Atta&#39;s meeting with an Iraqi intelligence official was not evidence that Iraq was connected to the attacks. &quot;There is no reason to indicate that it is related to ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Atta meets Iraqi intelligence service agent in Prague - press 2001 CTK Czech News Agency Global News Wire October 4, 2001 PRAGUE, Oct 4 (CTK) - Mohammad Atta, one of the terrorists who attacked New York with a hijacked aicraft on September 11, met at least one agent of the Iraqi intelligence service either at Prague airport or in its neighbourhood in June 2001 [sic -- Global News Wire notes: "read in first para, fourth line...in June 2000...instead of...in June 2001"], the daily ...

Atta's Prague meetings not evidence of Iraqi involvement - 12.10. WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (CTK) - Muhammad Atta, one of the terrorists suspected of having attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, met twice an agent of the Iraqi secret service in Prague, but the meetings are not evidence of Iraq's involvement in the attacks, Reuters news agency writes today. An unnamed U.S. source has told Reuters that Atta had met the agent in Prague in June 2000 and April 2001. However, the source said that Atta's meeting with the Iraqi spy was not evidence that Iraq had taken part ...

Czech Republic: Probe Examines Atta Meetings In Prague By Tony Wesolowsky What brought Mohammed Atta -- allegedly among the hijackers in September's World Trade Center attacks -- to Prague last year? Security officials in the Czech Republic and the U.S. want to know. They are now in the process of tracking Atta's steps through the Czech capital. Some say his contacts with Iraqi officials there could point to an Iraqi role in the attacks or in the growing number of anthrax cases reported in the U.S. Prague, 17 October 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Western and Czech media reports are citing unnamed ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct 26, 2001 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Government officials confirmed Friday that suspected suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta traveled twice to the Czech Republic and met with an Iraqi intelligence agent at least once. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani's expulsion from Prague on April 22, 2001 for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status. Gross did not give a precise date or venue of the meeting and declined to answer questions on those topics. Intelligence sources and government officials revealed ...

<p>The FBI is investigating whether Iraq provided cash, phony documents and other logistical support to Mohamed Atta during secret meetings the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attack on America had with Iraqi intelligence agents in Prague.</p> <p>Authorities said agents working with Czech police have focused on meetings this year between Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Alhani, an Iraqi diplomat later expelled as an intelligence agent, and with Farouk Hijazi, Saddam Hussein's former director of external security who also met privately with Osama bin Laden.</p>

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNN) -- Suspected terrorist hijacker Mohammed Atta contacted an Iraqi agent to discuss a terror attack on the Radio Free Europe building in the Czech capital, Prague, Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman told CNN. Zeman told CNN on Friday that Atta had met the Iraqi agent twice in the run-up to the suicide plane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. U.S. officials believe that Atta was at the cockpit controls of one of the two planes that crashed into the twin towers in New York. Atta had told the agent that it was ...

<p>RAGUE - Hijack suspect Mohamed Atta met an Iraqi agent in Prague to discuss a possible terrorist attack against the headquarters of the US-funded Radio Free Europe, Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman confirmed yesterday.</p> <p>Zeman's statement came just weeks after Czech authorities said that Atta, the man believed to be at the controls of the first jet to slam into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, met in Prague with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani. An Iraqi diplomat, Ani is believed to be a member of the Mukhabarat, Baghdad's feared intelligence service, and was expelled from the Czech Republic in April.</p>

AN DIEGO -- The undisputed fact connecting Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks is this: Mohamed Atta, who died at the controls of an airliner-missile, flew from Florida to Prague to meet on April 8 of this year with Ahmed al-Ani, the Iraqi consul. Al-Ani was known to the B.I.S., the Czech counterintelligence service, as a "case officer" of Iraqi intelligence working under diplomatic cover. "A case officer is not merely an agent," notes Edward Jay Epstein, the espionage analyst and my fellow Angletonian. "An agent executes assignments, but a case officer serves as the intermediary between an ...

Sunday April 28, 11:47 am Eastern TimePress ReleaseSOURCE: NewsweekNewsweek: Czech Officials Say Story That Sept. 11 Hijacker Atta Met with Iraqi Agent in Prague May Be Wrong; 'Nothing has Matched Up,' Says U.S. Official NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Czechoslovakian government officials have quietly acknowledged that they may have been mistaken about a supposed meeting at the Iraqi Embassy last April in Prague between suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent, Newsweek reports in the current issue. U.S. intelligence officials now believe that Atta, the hijackers' ringleader, wasn't even in Prague at the time the Czechs...

WASHINGTON — In pro football, an adept offensive lineman tricks his opponent in what is called a "misdirection play." He blocks his man toward the center; as the defender pushes back hard, the misdirecting lineman gives way, seemingly overcome by the counter-charge — as his running back scoots through the hole near the center left by the defender. A misdirection play is under way in the C.I.A.'s all-out attempt to discredit an account of a suspicious meeting in Prague a year ago. Mohamed Atta, destined to be the leading Sept. 11 suicide hijacker, was reported last fall by Czech intelligence...

The Czech envoy to the UN has confirmed that an Iraqi agent met with suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in the latest rebuke to widespread U.S. media reports dismissing the Prague encounter as a fabrication. "The meeting took place," Hynek Kmonicek, a former deputy foreign minister, told The Prague Post flatly in a New York City interview. Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross announced last fall that Atta and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a second consul at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, had conversed at least once, in April 2001. Gross would not rule out other encounters. The controversial...

<p>U.S. intelligence officials say they have not seen evidence from the Czech government to confirm reports accepted by the State Department that a key al Qaeda terrorist met with an Iraqi agent in Prague five months before September 11.</p> <p>The clandestine meeting between Mohamed Atta — identified as the organizer of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center — and Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani was held in April 2001, according to Czech government officials.</p>

Guys, this’ll be a quite letter-heavy Impromptus, because there are some gems to share. But first, a couple of notes all my own. For the past many months, there has been quite a to-do over whether the 9/11 terrorists had anything to do, directly, with Saddam Hussein. Did Atta meet with an Iraqi agent in Prague? That was the great Czech question. So much seemed to hinge on it. Much ink was spilled over it.The White House, the other day, settled the question, from the political and strategic points of view: Yes, it said (that great “it” that is the...