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The background: On April 21, 2001, the CIA's liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in Prague was briefed by the Czech counterintelligence service (known by its Czech acronym, BIS) about an extraordinary development in a spy case that concerned both the United States and the Czech Republic. The subject of the briefing was Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the consul at Iraq's embassy in Prague. .... So when al-Ani replaced Salim at the Iraq Embassy in Prague in 1999, both the United States and the Czech Republic wanted him closely watched in case he had a similar assignment. The BIS...

"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, CubaFOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or...

Baghdad, 23 May - The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information discovered by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein regime, which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Islamic terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian militant al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period. "Al-Zawahiri was summoned by Izza Ibrahim...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

You can understand why the media might ignore the Saddam-Osama memo, but what about the Bush administration? ON THE SURFACE, it might seem like a simple case of media bias. In the November 24, 2003, WEEKLY STANDARD, Stephen F. Hayes summarized and quoted at length a recent, secret Pentagon memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee. The memo laid out--in 50 bullet points, over 16 pages--the relationship between Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Much of the intelligence in the memo was detailed and appeared to be well-sourced and well-corroborated. The story generated lots of discussion...

. TARGET AMERICA: THE TERRORIST WAR | January 14, 1999 BYLINE: J. Miller, J. Mcwethy, Sheila Macvicar, Cynti McFadden A portion of the TV show is available on an MP3 file. http://www.radioamerica.org/audio/MR_ABC-Osama-Hussein-connections.mp3 Here is the transcript of the segment on the MP3. This is just a small portion of the show. In Germany, Mamdouh Salim, alleged to be a key military advisor and believed to be privy to bin Laden's most secret projects, is also apprehended. The U.S. government alleges he was under secret orders to procure enriched uranium for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. These are allegations bin...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Lebanese man who says he attended an al-Qaida training camp was charged Friday with lying to federal authorities about shipments of communications equipment seized by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi, 41, was charged in a U.S. District Court in Minnesota, one of several places he's lived in the United States. A federal judge in New York, where Elzahabi has been held since his arrest in May, held a hearing for Elzahabi and ordered him transferred to Minneapolis to face two counts of making false statements to federal investigators. A criminal complaint by FBI...

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....

"We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us." --Osama Bin Laden THE HIJACKERSFLIGHT 11 Mohammed ATTA (11) (also known as Mohammed al-Amir) Born September 1, 1968 in Kafr al Sheikh, Egypt. ATTA grows up in Cairo with his middle-class family. Abdulaziz ALOMARI (11) Saudi Arabian. Little is known about him. Walid AL-SHEHRI (11) From Khamis Mushayt in Saudi Arabia. Former teacher, who left his job allegedly to consult an Islamic holy man about his brother’s mental illness. Satam AL-SUQAMI (11) Born June 28, 1976. Saudi Arabian. Islamic-law-school student at King Fahd University in Riyadh....

Case ClosedFrom the November 24, 2003 issue: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.by Stephen F. Hayes 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11     Email a Friend   Respond to this article OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by...

An Iraqi source confirmed to Al Bawaba press reports about the arrest of the former head of Iraqi intelligence, Farouq Hijazi, whom Washington accuses of being behind an attempt to assassinate the former US president, George Bush Sr. while on a Kuwaiti visit in 1993. Meanwhile, another source confirmed Syrian assistance with the arrest. The spokesman of the Iraqi National Congress, the largest Iraqi opposition group, told Al Bawaba, “US forces arrested the former Iraqi intelligence chief, Farouq Hijazi, on Thursday night near the Syrian border.” “Farouq Abdullah Yahya al-Hijazi, previously dubbed as Muwaffaq Abdullah al-Yahya (Abu Harb), was born...

WASHINGTON -- A longtime Iraqi spy official, suspected of involvement in a plot to assassinate former President Bush and of having links to al-Qaida, was delivered to the Iraqi border by Syrian authorities Friday, U.S. officials said. Farouk Hijazi was taken into custody near the Syrian border, U.S. officials said, indicating new cooperation from a government that had been accused of harboring members of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime. Hijazi most recently served as Iraq's ambassador to Tunisia and was formerly ambassador to Turkey. But he is of particular interest to the CIA and the Pentagon because he was "a lifelong...

<p>April 26, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Responding to intense U.S. pressure, Syria yesterday expelled and turned over to U.S. forces a former Iraqi spymaster who orchestrated the assassination attempt on former President George Bush, officials said.</p> <p>Farouk Hijazi, the former director of external affairs for Saddam Hussein's fearsome intelligence service, the Mukhabarat, was taken into custody by U.S. Special Forces in northern Iraq near the Syrian border after he was expelled from Damascus.</p>

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S intelligence chief was caught by American forces close to Iraq’s border with Syria yesterday. The capture of Farouk Hijazi, who is accused of involvement in the unsuccessful plot by Iraqi intelligence to kill the first President Bush in 1993, came a day after the surrender of Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister. US officials believed that Mr Hijazi, who is also suspected of having links to the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation, had taken refuge in Syria, and his capture so close to the border triggered speculation that Damascus might have expelled him. The White House refused to comment...

Little is known about Farouk Hijazi, the Iraqi spymaster who has been taken into custody by coalition forces — except that he could be the key figure who links Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. It was Hijazi, as Iraqi ambassador to Turkey, who reportedly met with Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "It's a big catch. This man was involved in a number of contacts with al-Qaida," former CIA director James Woolsey told CNN. Haidar Ahmed, spokesman for the opposition Iraqi National Congress in London, said Hijazi served as ambassador to Turkey from the late 1990s until soon...

Former Iraqi Spy Chief Hijazi in U.S. Custody Fri April 25, 2003 08:17 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Iraqi spy chief Farouk Hijazi, accused of plotting to assassinate former President George Bush in the 1990s, was detained near Iraq's border with Syria, said a U.S. official on Friday. "He (Hijazi) is in custody and was picked up in Iraq near the Syrian border yesterday (Thursday) Iraqi time. I have no more details about the circumstances (of his arrest)," the U.S. official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters. Last week, Washington said it believed Hijazi was in Syria amid mounting accusations...

The Pentagon (CNSNews.com) - U.S.-led military troops took custody on Thursday of two important officials from the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Not long after former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz surrendered in Baghdad, coalition troops captured Faruk Hijazi, who was a longtime member of Iraq's intelligence service. "We have him," a Pentagon official said of Aziz on Thursday, noting that the outspoken defender of Saddam since the 1991 Gulf War was "pretty easy to identify." Aziz last appeared in public on March 19, when he held a news conference in Baghdad to dispel rumors that he had fled...

Listening now to Batchelor and Alexander Radio Show on WABC. Guest now is John Loftus. Loftus claims that the Syrians have sent Farouk Hijazi , former #3 in Saddam's intelligence service, over the border to American custody. From foxnews.com: Hijazi served as the director of external operations for the Mukhabarat in the mid-1990s, when the Iraqi intelligence agency allegedly attempted to assassinate the elder President Bush during a visit to Kuwait. And in December 1998, while he was Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, Hijazi traveled to Afghanistan and reportedly met with Usama bin Laden, officials in Washington said. Details of the...

The U.S. citizen killed by a missile launched from a pilotless drone aircraft over Yemen was the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., administration officials said yesterday. Kamal Derwish, one of two unindicted co-conspirators in the Lackawanna case, died along with the intended target of the attack, senior al Qaeda leader Abu Ali al-Harithi, who is accused of masterminding the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in which 17 sailors died. These two men and four others were traveling in a car outside the Yemeni capital of Sanaa when they were hit by a Hellfire...

Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions. One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his...