Atta/Prague new information (Edward Jay Epstein)

Edward Jay Epstein ^ | 4/23/04 | Edward Jay Epstein

[piasa]

Those folks also never mention that immigration has Atta entering the US TWICE on the same day.

[piasa]

Pardon me...Those folks also never mention that CUSTOMS has Atta entering the US TWICE on the same day.

[Travis McGee]

To say the least!

[nopardons]

bttt

[piasa]

Hey- it's off-topic but here's a fun bit o' trivia to chew since the Oil for Food scandals, gas prices, and refilling the oil reserves have been in the news lately:

1997 : (OIL RESERVES SCANDALS : ELK HILLS BUYOUT : CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES PLAN TO SELL THE US NAVY'S ELK HILLS OIL & GAS RESERVE TO OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM) In 1997 the White House announced a plan to sell the Navy's Elk Hills oil and gas reserve, one of the nation's most substantial energy resources, to Occidental Petroleum. "It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental's U.S. oil reserves overnight," reported the Center for Public Integrity's Charles Lewis in his recent book, "The Buying of the President 2000."
The Elk Hills buyout was great news for Occidental stockholders, of whom the most prominent was Albert Gore Sr., the vice president's father. Upon his father's death in 1998, Gore took control of his estate, including $500,000 worth of Occidental stock. During the Reagan and Bush administrations, Congress had resisted similar attempts to privatize the nation's energy resources, but it relented when the $3.65 billion Occidental buyout was proposed as one of Gore's "reinventing government" plans. The oil company has a long and mostly overlooked relationship with the Gore family, with Gore's father becoming known inside the halls of Congress as "the Senator from Occidental."
Not only did the relationship enrich Gore Sr., but Occidental has donated more than $470,000 in soft money to various Democratic committees since Gore Jr. became Clinton's sidekick in 1992, reported Lewis. The VP himself has received over $35,000 in Occidental contributions. - "'Investigate Gore's Occidental Conflict,' Cheney Challenges Press," Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff , Sunday August 27, 2000; 8:46 PM EDT

[XHogPilot]

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[txhurl]

There are some old posters that we need around now to help with this. I hear it's bad karma to ping them once they're banned.

[Mitchell]

There are some old posters that we need around now to help with this. I hear it's bad karma to ping them once they're banned.

I don't know if it's bad karma or not, but I would say that it's pointless!

[1L]

Can someone bring me up to speed on this? I've finished Gertz' book, breakdown, and he stands by the claim that there was this meeting, though Newsweek and other leftists claim there wasn't. These same folks are dumping on the Weekly Standard's article last fall.

[apokatastasis]

The meeting was affirmed publicly by Czech officials, and denied by anonymous US intelligence officials speaking to journalists. The New York Times ran a denial that was particularly deceptive (details here and here). I believe Isikoff and Hosenball of Newsweek also served as a channel for denials, or perhaps they just bring it up a lot as an example of a bogus connection to Iraq.

No-one denies that Atta went to Prague previously, in June 2000. Robert Baer, in his books See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil, says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed relocated to Prague after evading an FBI attempt to catch him in Qatar in 1997. Prague was also the location of a 1998 plot by Iraq to bomb the towers of Radio Free Europe.