[Shermy]

Saturday's news from the New York Times.

[ladyinred]

And OJ is looking for the real killers of Ron and Nicole on the golf course in Florida.

[Shermy]

American records now indicate that Mr. Atta was in Virginia Beach, Va., in early April 2001, when he was supposedly in Prague to meet Mr. Ani.

"Now" indicate.

"Now", after the Respekt article and Edward Jay Epstein's article.

Some backtracing, fixing-upping on the "timeline"?

Times is famous for planting the fake-Havel statement.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

How to keep The New York Times busy

[Shermy]

PIng for new dis/information.

[OldFriend]

I did not meet with that terrorist in Prague. Never, not one time!

[Cicero]

At first glance, this story seems to be sourced. But in point of fact, it is not.

"according to United States officials familiar with classified intelligence reports on the matter. . ."

"according to the officials, who have reviewed classified debriefing reports based on the interrogations. . ."

"American officials . . ."

Probably from Valerie Plume.

[plain talk]

American records now indicate that Mr. Atta was in Virginia Beach, Va., in early April 2001, when he was supposedly in Prague to meet Mr. Ani.

There are 30 days in April. A lot can happen in 30 days. We're supposed to believe the "word" of an Iraqi intelligence officer over a letter. This is laughable.

[piasa]

Al Qaeda's leadership "viewed the Iraqis, particularly the military and security services, as corrupt, irreligious and hypocritical in that they succumb to Western vices while concurrently remaining at war with the United States," the report says, summarizing Mr. Zubaydah's statements. "

Well, that settles it, then. Using similar logic, the 911 hijackers couldn't have been members of al Qaeda since they spent time in Florida and Las Vegas getting lap dances and drinking booze. Thus, it is reasonable to assume they were working for Iraq, a secularist state known for making the best beer in the region and where gang-banging with the Hussein brothers was the national sport.

[denydenydeny]

But the C.I.A. and F.B.I. eventually concluded that the meeting probably did not take place, and that there was no hard evidence that Mr. Hussein's government was involved in the Sept. 11 plot.

First of all, we know from the Feith memo that the CIA has concluded that there were strong operational ties between Saddam's Iraq and al-Qaeda. Has the Times ever acknowledged that?

Specifically dealing with the Atta matter, the Feith memo points out the CIA's actual position is not so definitive:

CIA can confirm two Atta visits to Prague--in Dec. 1994 and in June 2000; data surrounding the other two--on 26 Oct 1999 and 9 April 2001--is complicated and sometimes contradictory and CIA and FBI cannot confirm Atta met with the IIS. Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross continues to stand by his information.

[Cold Heat]

It is amazing(not):-( that the "slimes keeps bringing this so called information to their pages, yet this is the only guy who claims the meeting never happened.

This is also connected to the husband of the so called outed CIA agent that everyone already knew about.

I expect that the slimes is trying to keep this issue alive and try at the same time to negate any value of the victory in Iraq.

Any positive or helpful thing that helps GWB's re-election is a target of the history re-writers of the New York Slimes . This media giant is so in the pocket of the socialist movement. The smell is gagging me.

[M Kehoe]

There is a video tape of Atta meeting Ani at the Prague airport. Or someone who looked like Ani. Initially it was reported to be an Iraqi general. I haven't seen that video again in two years.

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