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E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version January 13, 2006, 8:11 a.m. The Butcher with the Terror Ties The evidence mounts. Drip, drip, drip. Drop by drop, isolated news stories and emerging documents are eroding the popular myth that Saddam Hussein had no connections to Islamofascist terrorists. These revelations undermine war critics’ efforts to whitewash Baghdad’s ancien regime — such as when Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid declared: “There was [sic] no terrorists in Iraq.” Likewise, Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) describes a “nonexistent relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.” Reid, Levin, and others who dismiss...

<p>July 9, 2003 -- The U.S. military has arrested the mysterious, high-ranking Iraqi spy who allegedly huddled with Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta in Prague just months before the terror attacks.</p> <p>Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, who reportedly met with Atta in April 2001 to go over plans to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe building there, was apprehended July 2, a U.S. official said.</p>

The chief of the Czech foreign intelligence has cast doubt on government reports that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague before last year's terrorist attacks in the United States. It was the first time a ranking Czech intelligence figure had publicly challenged official accounts regarding whether the meeting took place. Frantisek Bublan, director general of the Office of Foreign Relations and Information (UZSI), the nation's foreign intelligence wing, told The Prague Post he doubted whether Atta would have met Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a second consul at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, so...