Final Confirmation: Atta didn't meet Iraqi Spy

posted by ewing2001 on Saturday December 13, @03:26PM

Sunday Telegraph claims now, there is an Atta-Abu Nidal connection

Update: Iraqi document on Atta visit in Baghdad "probably a fabrication" (Newsweek 12/18)

Iraqi denies he met with Atta, leader in 9/11 plot

SF Chronicle -December 13

Washington -- A former Iraqi intelligence officer who was said to have met with the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 attacks has told U.S. interrogators the meeting never happened, according to U.S. officials familiar with classified intelligence reports on the matter.

Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the former intelligence officer, was taken into custody by U.S. forces in July. Under questioning, he has said that he did not meet with Mohamed Atta in Prague, Czech Republic, according to the officials, who have reviewed classified debriefing reports based on the interrogations.

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...the CIA and FBI eventually concluded that the meeting probably had not taken place and that there was no hard evidence that Hussein's government had been involved in the Sept. 11 plot.

Counterspin: Atta "trained in Baghdad"

Hollinger's former paper, Sunday Telegraph (Richard Perle sits on the board), claimed, it obtained an exclusive memo

Newsmax -December 14

9/11 Bombshell: Mohamed Atta Trained in Baghdad

A bombshell memo written to Saddam Hussein in 2001 and recently uncovered by Iraq's new coalition government shows that lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was trained to attack the U.S. in Baghdad.

The memo, authored by Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, is dated July 1, 2001 and describes the "work program" undertaken by Atta at a base in Baghdad run by notorious Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, reports London's Sunday Telegraph, which obtained the document exclusively.

Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam

A document tying the Iraqi leader with the 9/11 terrorist is probably fake.

Newsweek - Dec. 17, 2003

Dec. 17 - A widely publicized Iraqi document that purports to show that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta visited Baghdad in the summer of 2001 is probably a fabrication that is contradicted by U.S. law-enforcement records showing Atta was staying at cheap motels and apartments in the United States when the trip presumably would have taken place, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and FBI documents.

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