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Saturday, August 03, 2002
The U. S. government, in its continuing rather pathetic attempt to find some sliver of an excuse to attack Iraq, has resurrected the old idea (see item 9 here for some links) that Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague, therefore proving that Iraq was somehow behind the September 11 terrorism. I am delighted to see this development, as the Prague meeting opens serious questions about the identity of Mohamed Atta. Atta's personal identity is already quite shaky, as he has the unfortunate habit of appearing in two places at the same time. For example, in April (or perhaps, May), 2000 he was having a nice chat in Florida about obtaining a loan to buy a cropduster, while he was simultaneously still an architecture student in Hamburg, Germany (he didn't arrive in the United States until June, 2000). It would be very unfortunate for the Official Story of what happened on September 11 if it should turn out that someone was using Mohamed Atta's identity and doing suspicious terrorist-type things before Mohamed Atta even arrived in the country, and it would only add to the suspicions if Atta were busy doing evil things in the United States while somebody else attempted to frame him in Prague by meeting with a representative of Iraq. Even though the Czechs are still officially denying that Atta met an Iraqi in Prague, and even though the FBI can account for his whereabouts in Virginia and Florida for the whole month of April 2001 (he is supposed to have met with the Iraqi agent on April 8), and can find no record of his leaving or entering the United States during that time, I think it is perfectly possible that one of the actors who played the character 'Mohamed Atta' did meet with an Iraqi agent in Prague. This is all eerily reminiscent of the incident in 1963 where someone arranged to have an actor attend at the Soviet embassy and the Cuban consulate in Mexico City claiming to be Lee Harvey Oswald (in that case surveillance photos and transcripts eventually pried out of the CIA and FBI conclusively proved that it was not Lee Harvey Oswald - do you think the Czechs could scare up some surveillance videos of the alleged Prague meeting?). The striking similarity is that in both cases someone went to a lot of trouble to impersonate a Nobody in a politically sensitive situation, effectively attempting to implicate a government in a crime, presumably with foreknowledge that the Nobody was going to become a Somebody once the crime was committed. If this sort of impersonation happened with 'Atta' in Prague, it looks an awful lot like the characteristic work of an intelligence agency. posted at 4:31 AM permanent link
>From: Samuel Waite <haymarket326 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Were We Wrong About Atta & Iraq?
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:17:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The following is the strongest case for an Iraq-Atta
>link that I've seen. Sadly, I've yet to see any left
>bloggers address it.
>
>How credible is Epstein?
>
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>http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/PragueApril2004.htm
>
>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
>himself as being a "Hamburg student." Since a visa was
>not necessary to catch a Czech plane to the US, Czech
>intelligence concluded he had business in the Czech
>Republic.
>3) Just prior to leaving for the U.S., Atta made 2
>trips to the Czech Republic in 2000. The first was on
>May 30, where he went without a visa to the transit
>lounge of Prague International Airport; the second was
>by bus to Prague on June 2 with visa BONN200005260024.
>
>4) On April 4, 2001, Atta checked out of the
>Diplomat Inn in Virginia Beach and cashed a check for
>$8,000 from a SunTrust account, according to the FBI.
>Atta was not seen again in America by any witness
>before April 11, 2001.
>5) Al-Ani scheduled a meeting on April 8,2001 with a
>"Hamburg student" according to an appointment calendar
>subsequently turned up by Czech intelligence in a
>surreptitious search of the Iraq Embassy (presumably
>after the defeat of Iraq in April 2003.)
>6) Al-Ani was observed meeting a young Arab-speaking
>man on the outskirts of Prague on April 8th by a
>watcher for Czech counterintelligence.
>
>7) After seeing Atta’s picture on September 11th, the
>watcher identified the Arab-speaking man as Mohammed
>Atta.
>8 ) Al-Ani was expelled from Prague less than 2 weeks
>after that meeting.
>9 ) After 9-11, Al-Ani denied that he met Atta , as
>did the Baghdad government. Al-Ani repeated that
>denial after he was detained by U.S. forces in July
>2003.
>10 ) The CIA determined, according to George Tenet
>testimony before a Joint Committee of Congress (June
>18, 2002): “Atta allegedly traveled outside the US in
>early April 2001 to meet with an Iraqi intelligence
>officer in Prague, we are still working to confirm or
>deny this allegation. It is possible that Atta
>traveled under an unknown alias since we have been
>unable to establish that Atta left the US or entered
>Europe in April 2001 under his true name or any known
>aliases.”
>11) Subsequently, Spanish intelligence found evidence
>that Algerians Khaled Madani and Moussa Laouar
>provided false passports to Mohamed Atta and his
>associate Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
>
>
>
>
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