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Ziad Jarrah,Mohammed Atta,& Marwan Alshehhi stayed in Jacksonville. Channel 12 has done a great job of investigative reporting with this. Sen Nelson says that the 9/11 commission knew nothing of this. You'll have to read the article, there is a video as well.

Atta’s Alleged Trip to Prague (pages 228-229) Mohamed Atta is known to have been in Prague on two occasions: in December 1994, when he stayed one night at a transit hotel, and in June 2000, when he was en route to the United States. On the latter occasion,he arrived by bus from Germany, on June 2, and departed for Newark the following day.69 The allegation that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001 originates from the reporting of a single source of the Czech intelligence service. Shortly after 9/11, the source reported having seen Atta...

WASHINGTON, July 8 - George J. Tenet, the departing director of central intelligence, has told Congress that the C.I.A. is "increasingly skeptical" that a Sept. 11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001, an assessment very different in tone from continuing assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney that such a meeting might have taken place. In a letter, sent to Congress on July 1, Mr. Tenet said Mr. Atta "would have been unlikely to undertake the substantial risk of contacting any Iraqi official" at such a date, when the Sept. 11 plot was well...

WASHINGTON, June 16 - A report of a clandestine meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer first surfaced shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. And even though serious doubt was cast on the report, it was repeatedly cited by some Bush administration officials and others as evidence of a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. But on Wednesday, the Sept. 11 commission said its investigation had found that the meeting never took place. In its report on the Sept. 11 plot, the commission staff disclosed for the first time F.B.I. evidence that strongly suggested that Mr....

Updated: 7:34 p.m. ET June 16, 2004June 16 - While rejecting claims that Al Qaeda had collaborated with Saddam Hussein’s regime on strikes against the United States, the federal panel investigating the September 11 attacks today disclosed intriguing new evidence that Osama bin Laden’s organization may have cooperated with Iraq’s volatile next door neighbor: Iran. A commission report released at a public hearing Wednesday suggests for the first time that bin Laden played a behind-the-scenes role in the deadly 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers U.S. military compound in Saudi Arabia—an attack that the FBI, after an agonizing investigation that...

<p>Did Mohamed Atta meet an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague five months before he slammed a Boeing 767 into World Trade Center? Fresh evidence bolsters the view the attack on America might have had Ba'athist fingerprints.</p> <p>Edward Jay Epstein, best-selling author of 12 books on politics and history, has followed "the Prague Connection" since its outlines emerged in autumn 2001. Peruse his findings at edwardjayepstein.com.</p>

Question: In its "Our Con man In Iraq" cover story of May 31,2004, Newsweek claims Ahmad Chalabi "hyped a story "about a secret meeting in Prague between Muhammad Atta and a high-level Iraqi intelligence officer, Al Ani. Newsweek then states, as proof of its con man case: "After months of investigation, the CIA and FBI determined that the meeting had never taken place." Is it fact or fiction that the CIA and FBI made such a determination? Answer: It is fiction that the FBI and CIA "determined that the meeting had never taken place." In fact, The CIA determined, it...

Question: Three years have passed since the putative meeting in Prague between hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraq Consul al-Ani. What has the CIA, FBI, Czech intelligence (BIS) and other intelligence services established about the activities of the alleged participants at this meeting? Answer: 1) Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani served as consul at Iraq's embassy in Prague between March 1999 and April 21, 2001 and he was activity involved in agent-handling during this period. 2) Mohammed Atta applied for a visa to visit the Czech Republic on May 26, 2000 in Bonn, Germany According to Czech visa records, Atta identified...

Question:     Three years have passed since the putative meeting in Prague between hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraq Consul al-Ani. What has the CIA, FBI, Czech intelligence (BIS) and other intelligence services established about the activities of the alleged participants at this meeting? Answer: 1)   Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani served as consul at Iraq's embassy in Prague between March 1999 and April 21, 2001 and he was activity involved in agent-handling during this period. 2)  Mohammed Atta applied for a visa to visit the Czech Republic on May 26, 2000 in Bonn, Germany According to Czech visa records,...

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 2001 Hijacker 'given anthrax flask by Iraqi agent' BY DANIEL MCGRORY INTELLIGENCE agents from Prague to Swansea are uncovering a trail of clues that point to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq having a hand in al-Qaeda’s terrorist missions. Iraqi ministers have spent the week protesting Baghdad’s innocence to the United Nations, but will not say why some of its diplomats who met Mohammed Atta, one of the suspected September 11 hijackers, disappeared from their European posts after that date. Nor will Baghdad explain why Saddam’s agents were spotted at various times this year with Atta in ...

While discussing an upcoming article in the December 2002 Vanity Fair, David Rose (senior editor/VF) tells Katie "The Affable One" Couric that a New York Times article from October 2002 about Czech President Havel's remarks on Iraq and hijacker Mohammed Atta is a "fabrication".

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  U.S. investigators no longer believe suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Europe last year, eliminating the only known link between Saddam Hussein's government and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p> <p>American and Czech officials had believed the meetings between Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 19 hijackers, and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani, an Iraqi diplomat widely believed to be an intelligence agent, took place in Prague in April 2001.</p>

New Republic: CIA Back-Stabbed Bush to Cover Itself The CIA leaked that infamous Aug. 6 memo mentioning a possible terrorist hijacking to throw the blame on President Bush and cover up its own incompetence, suggests the New Republic. The left-leaning but respected magazine notes the meaningless vagueness of the memo. "The real scandal, in other words, isn't Bush's non-reaction to the CIA memo. It is the memo itself - which testifies powerfully to the shoddy nature of the CIA's pre-9/11 anti-terrorism work," Richard Miniter writes. "But rather than focusing on CIA incompetence, the media and congressional Democrats have used the...

<p>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.</p>

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — A former Iraqi intelligence officer who was said to have met with the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 attacks has told American interrogators the meeting never happened, according to United States officials familiar with classified intelligence reports on the matter. Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the former intelligence officer, was taken into custody by the United States in July. Under questioning he has said that he did not meet with Mohamed Atta in Prague, according to the officials, who have reviewed classified debriefing reports based on the interrogations. American officials caution that Mr. Ani may...

<p>Immediately after the occupation of Baghdad, the CIA succeeded in obtaining nearly the complete archive of the Foreign Ministry and some of the material belonging to the Iraqi secret service. Czech security organs now have access to documents from Iraq’s embassy in Prague. This summer, the Iraqi consul to Prague, Ahmed al-Ani, was detained by American soldiers in Baghdad. Although it has not yet been proved whether the consul met with the terrorist Mohammad Atta [suspected leader of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States], new information from the American, the German, and the Czech [intelligence] services indicates that Atta’s visits to Prague were important. For the terrorist operations of Sept. 11, they may have been decisive.</p>

April 28 — Did September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta meet with an Iraqi agent in the months before the terrorist attack? Last fall, the Czech government provided the CIA with intelli­gence suggesting that just such a rendezvous had taken place. The Czechs claimed that Atta, the ringleader of the hi­jackers, made a special trip to Prague in April 2001, where he met the agent at the Iraqi Embassy THE STORY of the “Iraqi connection” spread rapidly through Washington. Advocates of U.S. action to topple Saddam Hussein seized on the account to bolster their arguments. New York Times columnist William Safire...

<p>In making the case for war against Iraq, Vice President Cheney has continued to suggest that an Iraqi intelligence agent met with a Sept. 11, 2001, hijacker five months before the attacks, even as the story was falling apart under scrutiny by the FBI, CIA and the foreign government that first made the allegation.</p>

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

On the CBS Evening News a bit ago, reporter David Martin broke an exclusive that the Iraqi leader who may have met with Mohamed Atta in Prague prior to his terrorist attack on 9/11 has been caught. It will be interesting to see if he says anything.

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. GROSS'S STATEMENTS ON ATTA ENTER AMERICAN JUSTICE Czech News Agency Global News Wire May 9, 2003 PRAGUE, May 9 (CTK) - Interior Minister Stanislav Gross's statement that Muhammad Atta, the leader of the hijackers of aircraft from September 11, 2001, met with an Iraqi diplomat in Prague, has entered the U.S. judiciary, the daily Lidove noviny writes today. It was recognised as a piece of evidence by a court in New York on Wednesday which ruled that the terrorists who destroyed the New...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - A Czech cabinet minister on Friday became the first official to acknowledge that suspected suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent during a trip to the Czech Republic. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani was expelled from Prague on April 22, 2001 for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status. ``We can confirm now that during his ... trip to the Czech Republic he did have a contact with an officer of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Ahmad Khalil ...

<p>October 27, 2001 -- PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech officials confirmed yesterday that suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent during one of two trips to Prague.</p> <p>Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani's expulsion from Prague on April 22, 2001, for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status.</p>

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Mohammed Atta, a suspected pilot in Sept. 11 attacks, discussed plans to blow up the Radio Free Europe building in Prague when he met an Iraqi agent there earlier this year, the Czech Prime Minister said on Friday. "Atta contacted some Iraq agent, not to prepare the terrorist attack on twins (the World Trade Center twin towers), but to prepare a terrorist attack on just the building of Radio Free Europe," Czech leader Milos Zeman told CNN. "There were some plans to use the truck standard explosives to destroy the building," said Zeman, who is ...

Title: Czech Minister Doubts US Reports Questioning Atta's Contacts With Iraqi Agent Prague Lidove Noviny (Internet Version-WWW) in Czech 03 May 02 pp 1, 3 Subslug: Report by Petr Kolar and Silvie Blechova: "The United States Casts Doubt on the Czech Information on Atta" [FBIS Translated Excerpt] Prague/Washington -- Czech authorities' reports on one of the 11 September hijackers, Muhammad Atta, meeting with Iraqi agent al-Ani in Prague, suffered another setback. Quoting "unnamed US officials," two prestigious western media expressed doubts that the meeting had taken place at all. However, Interior Minister Stanislav Gross insists that the meeting took place....

PRAGUE (Reuters) - A leading Czech official has once again insisted that Mohammed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, met an Iraqi agent in Prague just months before crashing a plane into the World Trade Center. The weekly Prague Post was to report in its June 5 edition that Hynek Kmonicek, Czech envoy to the United Nations, had affirmed that a disputed meeting between Atta and Iraqi agent Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani took place in April 2001. The meeting, which several Czech officials have claimed took place and U.S....

Atta met Iraqi intelligence in Prague-U.S. source WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers of the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center, met with an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague in June 2000 and April 2001, a U.S. source said on Thursday. But the source cautioned, as have U.S. officials privately since the attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, that Atta&#39;s meeting with an Iraqi intelligence official was not evidence that Iraq was connected to the attacks. &quot;There is no reason to indicate that it is related to ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Atta meets Iraqi intelligence service agent in Prague - press 2001 CTK Czech News Agency Global News Wire October 4, 2001 PRAGUE, Oct 4 (CTK) - Mohammad Atta, one of the terrorists who attacked New York with a hijacked aicraft on September 11, met at least one agent of the Iraqi intelligence service either at Prague airport or in its neighbourhood in June 2001 [sic -- Global News Wire notes: "read in first para, fourth line...in June 2000...instead of...in June 2001"], the daily ...

Atta's Prague meetings not evidence of Iraqi involvement - 12.10. WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (CTK) - Muhammad Atta, one of the terrorists suspected of having attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, met twice an agent of the Iraqi secret service in Prague, but the meetings are not evidence of Iraq's involvement in the attacks, Reuters news agency writes today. An unnamed U.S. source has told Reuters that Atta had met the agent in Prague in June 2000 and April 2001. However, the source said that Atta's meeting with the Iraqi spy was not evidence that Iraq had taken part ...

Czech Republic: Probe Examines Atta Meetings In Prague By Tony Wesolowsky What brought Mohammed Atta -- allegedly among the hijackers in September's World Trade Center attacks -- to Prague last year? Security officials in the Czech Republic and the U.S. want to know. They are now in the process of tracking Atta's steps through the Czech capital. Some say his contacts with Iraqi officials there could point to an Iraqi role in the attacks or in the growing number of anthrax cases reported in the U.S. Prague, 17 October 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Western and Czech media reports are citing unnamed ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct 26, 2001 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Government officials confirmed Friday that suspected suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta traveled twice to the Czech Republic and met with an Iraqi intelligence agent at least once. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani's expulsion from Prague on April 22, 2001 for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status. Gross did not give a precise date or venue of the meeting and declined to answer questions on those topics. Intelligence sources and government officials revealed ...

<p>The FBI is investigating whether Iraq provided cash, phony documents and other logistical support to Mohamed Atta during secret meetings the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attack on America had with Iraqi intelligence agents in Prague.</p> <p>Authorities said agents working with Czech police have focused on meetings this year between Atta and Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Alhani, an Iraqi diplomat later expelled as an intelligence agent, and with Farouk Hijazi, Saddam Hussein's former director of external security who also met privately with Osama bin Laden.</p>

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNN) -- Suspected terrorist hijacker Mohammed Atta contacted an Iraqi agent to discuss a terror attack on the Radio Free Europe building in the Czech capital, Prague, Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman told CNN. Zeman told CNN on Friday that Atta had met the Iraqi agent twice in the run-up to the suicide plane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. U.S. officials believe that Atta was at the cockpit controls of one of the two planes that crashed into the twin towers in New York. Atta had told the agent that it was ...

<p>RAGUE - Hijack suspect Mohamed Atta met an Iraqi agent in Prague to discuss a possible terrorist attack against the headquarters of the US-funded Radio Free Europe, Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman confirmed yesterday.</p> <p>Zeman's statement came just weeks after Czech authorities said that Atta, the man believed to be at the controls of the first jet to slam into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, met in Prague with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani. An Iraqi diplomat, Ani is believed to be a member of the Mukhabarat, Baghdad's feared intelligence service, and was expelled from the Czech Republic in April.</p>

AN DIEGO -- The undisputed fact connecting Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks is this: Mohamed Atta, who died at the controls of an airliner-missile, flew from Florida to Prague to meet on April 8 of this year with Ahmed al-Ani, the Iraqi consul. Al-Ani was known to the B.I.S., the Czech counterintelligence service, as a "case officer" of Iraqi intelligence working under diplomatic cover. "A case officer is not merely an agent," notes Edward Jay Epstein, the espionage analyst and my fellow Angletonian. "An agent executes assignments, but a case officer serves as the intermediary between an ...

Sunday April 28, 11:47 am Eastern TimePress ReleaseSOURCE: NewsweekNewsweek: Czech Officials Say Story That Sept. 11 Hijacker Atta Met with Iraqi Agent in Prague May Be Wrong; 'Nothing has Matched Up,' Says U.S. Official NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Czechoslovakian government officials have quietly acknowledged that they may have been mistaken about a supposed meeting at the Iraqi Embassy last April in Prague between suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent, Newsweek reports in the current issue. U.S. intelligence officials now believe that Atta, the hijackers' ringleader, wasn't even in Prague at the time the Czechs...

WASHINGTON — In pro football, an adept offensive lineman tricks his opponent in what is called a "misdirection play." He blocks his man toward the center; as the defender pushes back hard, the misdirecting lineman gives way, seemingly overcome by the counter-charge — as his running back scoots through the hole near the center left by the defender. A misdirection play is under way in the C.I.A.'s all-out attempt to discredit an account of a suspicious meeting in Prague a year ago. Mohamed Atta, destined to be the leading Sept. 11 suicide hijacker, was reported last fall by Czech intelligence...

The Czech envoy to the UN has confirmed that an Iraqi agent met with suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, in the latest rebuke to widespread U.S. media reports dismissing the Prague encounter as a fabrication. "The meeting took place," Hynek Kmonicek, a former deputy foreign minister, told The Prague Post flatly in a New York City interview. Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross announced last fall that Atta and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a second consul at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, had conversed at least once, in April 2001. Gross would not rule out other encounters. The controversial...

<p>U.S. intelligence officials say they have not seen evidence from the Czech government to confirm reports accepted by the State Department that a key al Qaeda terrorist met with an Iraqi agent in Prague five months before September 11.</p> <p>The clandestine meeting between Mohamed Atta — identified as the organizer of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center — and Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani was held in April 2001, according to Czech government officials.</p>

Guys, this’ll be a quite letter-heavy Impromptus, because there are some gems to share. But first, a couple of notes all my own. For the past many months, there has been quite a to-do over whether the 9/11 terrorists had anything to do, directly, with Saddam Hussein. Did Atta meet with an Iraqi agent in Prague? That was the great Czech question. So much seemed to hinge on it. Much ink was spilled over it.The White House, the other day, settled the question, from the political and strategic points of view: Yes, it said (that great “it” that is the...

Seated next to Donald Rumsfeld last Tuesday as he drank coffee at the Pentagon with reporters in the Godfrey Sperling group, I asked the secretary of defense to confirm or deny whether suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta met an Iraqi secret service operative in Prague and then returned to the United States to die in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ''I don't know whether he did or didn't,'' Rumsfeld replied. In those eight words, the defense chief confirmed published reports that there is no evidence placing the presumed leader of the terrorist attacks in the Czech capital--with or without Iraqi spymaster...

[For education and discussion only; not for commercial use.] October 21, 2002 Prague Discounts an Iraqi MeetingBy JAMES RISEN RAGUE, Oct. 20 — The Czech president, Vaclav Havel, has quietly told the White House he has concluded that there is no evidence to confirm earlier reports that Mohamed Atta, the leader in the Sept. 11 attacks, met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague just months before the attacks on New York and Washington, according to Czech officials. Mr. Havel discreetly called Washington to tell senior Bush administration officials that an initial report from the Czech domestic intelligence agency that...