September 11 report alludes to Iraq-al Qaeda meeting

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 | By Bill Gertz

[JohnHuang2]

The 850-page congressional report on September 11 intelligence failures says that a key terrorist organizer may have met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in the months before the attack.

Mohamed Atta, one of the pilots of the two hijacked jets that hit the World Trade Center, "may have traveled" to Prague to meet an Iraqi intelligence officer, the report said, quoting CIA Director George Tenet.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Quote of the Day by goldstategop

[MatthewViti]

another "senior official" eh?

[Shermy]

Czechatta ping.

No "evidence" except the Czechs...I guess they don't count.

[Honestfreedom]

Speaking of great Iraqi mysteries does anyone know what ever became of Abdul Rachman Yassin the Iraqi who escaped to Iraq after the first WTC bombing in 1993. There was a $25 million reward for him. Is he now in American custody? Why did Bush not make an issue of him in the buildup to the war?

[Shermy]

BTW, click the keyword "czechatta" above for my catalog of stories on this subject... replete with strange denials put in the mouths of Czechs, then denied.

[Mr.Clark]

I believe we caught the Iraqi who supposedly met with Atta rather recently, didn't we?

[Shermy]

Why did Bush not make an issue of him in the buildup to the war?

Why does the gubmint keep underplaying actual (yassin) and possible links to '93 and OKC? Keep everyone happy? Appease Saudis?

[vbmoneyspender]

yeah, we did.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I caught some guy on O'Reilly tonight and the conversation was in this general area with the 28 pages that have been blacked out.

The expert basically said, that if something is revealed then political forces will force the administration to do something that they may not be prepared to do! YET!

So perhaps we have that situation here.

[aristeides]

Thanks for the ping. I thought the FBI had found movements of Atta consistent with such a trip. Here they say they think it was impossible, or at least very difficult.

[Princeton]

http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060580127

Bush vs. the Beltway
How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror

by Laurie Mylroie

[okie01]

In the congressional report, the joint inquiry said Atta traveled to the Czech Republic in June 2000 on his way back to the United States after a meeting with al Qaeda conspirators in Germany.

Later, the report states that CIA's Mr. Tenet told the committee: "Atta may also have traveled outside of the U.S. in early April 2001 to meet an Iraqi intelligence officer, although we are still working to corroborate this."

It was not so very long ago that the CIA, institutionally, and Tenet, personally, contended that no such meeting took place. This admission is thus a major change in the 9/11 landscape.

The U.S. official said yesterday that the FBI is more skeptical than the CIA that the meeting took place.

And why are we not surprised? And doesn't this suggest that the FBI has its institutional credibility invested in the "Amerithrax" scam? Does it not mean that the FBI is literally not "in the loop"? And as bewitched by the Hatfill stalking horse as the mainstream media?

Pretty important developments, it seems to me...

[StriperSniper]

I guess they don't count.

Nothing counts that doesn't make the leftists look good.

[Shermy]

True.

Later, the report states that CIA's Mr. Tenet told the committee: "Atta may also have traveled outside of the U.S. in early April 2001 to meet an Iraqi intelligence officer, although we are still working to corroborate this."

Still trying to "corroborate" after a year and a half? Big time B. S. Even you believe the Czechs, or not. All I've seen countering the Czechs is this "corroborate" pseudo-argument, putting false words in the mouth of Vaclav Havel, and the "Czech Official" trotted out by the US - who was retired, not with the security service reporting the meeting, and, reading between the lines, didn't deny a meeting took place, but the date.

[Z-28]

Yep, the fascist left-wing US media is rewriting history almost faster than it occurs to witness.

Whittaker Chambers is correct.