On 24 Aug 2002 at 4:43, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> Here we go again
>
> <snip from Daniel Pipes>
> Iraq has other links to terrorism against the United States. Czech
> intelligence officials now say they have a photo of Mohammed Atta, one
> of the 9/11 hijackers, meeting with an Iraqi intelligence agent in
> Prague. <end snip>
>
> Anyone a photo with Saddam for $15 ?
>
>
>
> NEWSWEEK 19th August 2002
>
> LOOKING FOR A LINK
>
> Top Bush officials, eager to bolster their case for an invasion of
> Iraq, want the FBI to give them more ammunition. Last week Deputy
> Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, an Iraq hawk, summoned two FBI
> officials to brief him on claims by Czech intelligence that 9-11
> hijacker Mohamed Atta had met last year in Prague with an Iraqi
> intelligence agent. Wolfowitz wanted the FBI to endorse the Czech
> account to show ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. But when FBI
> counterterrorism chief Pat D'Amuro and a case agent expressed
> skepticism, Wolfowitz vigorously challenged them, says one source. The
> sole evidence for the alleged meeting is the uncorroborated claim of a
> Czech informant. The informant says he saw Atta meeting with an Iraqi
> spy on April 9, 2001. But the FBI can't find any evidence--such as
> airline or passport records--that Atta was in Prague that day. (The
> bureau has found credit-card receipts putting Atta in Florida two days
> earlier.) The case agent called the meeting "unlikely." But under
> Wolfowitz's grilling, the agent finally agreed it was "possible,"
> because the FBI can't account for Atta's whereabouts on the day in
> question. A Defense Department official says Wolfowitz wasn't trying
> to pressure the bureau. "He believes it's important to get clarity
> about what we know and what we don't know," says the official.
>
I'd like to see the photo myself.
>
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