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  • ‘Saddam had ordered Atta training’

    12/14/2003 6:15:39 PM PST · by TexKat · 85 replies · 518+ views
    Indianexpress.com ^ | 12/14/03 | Press Trust of India
    LONDON, DECEMBER 14: The mastermind of the September 2001 attacks in the US, Mohammad Atta, was trained in Baghdad by a Palestinian terrorist at the instance of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a media report said today. Atta, who was trained by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, visited Baghdad just weeks before the terror attack, The Sunday Telegraph reported. The details of Atta’s visit are contained in a secret memo, written to Hussein by the former head of Iraqi intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush Al-Tikriti, it said. The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained by the daily is...