In the meantime, the SFChronicle reports that the Iraqi intel officer denies meeing with Atta -- and of course he wouldn't lie, right? :/
Note the article doesn't report at all on the latest discovery.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/13/MNG573MOJQ1.DTL Iraqi denies he met with Atta, leader in 9/11 plot
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.
U.S. officials caution that Ani may have been lying to his interrogators, but the only other person reported to have attended the meeting was Atta, who died in the crash of his hijacked plane into the World Trade Center.
The article fails to note that if al-Ani DID admit to meeting with Atta, he would name himself as a co-conspirator in the 9/11 attacks and probably end up getting the chair after we'd cleaned his clock for every spare piece of intel on the operation. As long as he keeps denying it, he probably hopes he can get off with a slap on the wrist and fade into the background as fast as possible.
In other news, Herman Goering denied participation in the Holocaust ...