The New York Times reports that the former Iraqi intelligence officer who is alleged to have met with Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators he did not meet with Atta in Prague.
Reports have been circulated since shortly after the 9-11 terror attacks that an Iraqi spy had met with Atta in Prague. Czech government officials initially confirmed these reports, but according to the Times, 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 9-11 plot.
The allegations of a meeting between Atta and Iraqi Officials, have fueled the debate about whether there was any collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Reports of the alleged meeting are highlighted in the Feith memo revealed in Stephen Hayes’ Case Closed article published in the Weekly Standard four weeks ago. You can access my series of posts following the coverage of the Feith memo here.
The Times notes that American records now indicate that Mr. Atta was in Virginia Beach, Va. However, the Times’ report doesn’t mention this Edward Jay Epstein article in Slate which I posted about here. According to Epstein, the FBI had no records that put Atta in the United States at the time of the Prague meeting.
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