Saturday, November 15, 2003

There's no link! What? Nevermind.

Remember when Garry Trudeau put out this unimaginative and unfunny Sunday strip? The one that shows a character screaming: "There is no evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 – None!"?

Oops.

And then there is the alleged contact between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague. The reporting on those links suggests not one meeting, but as many as four. What¹s more, the memo reveals potential financing of Atta's activities by Iraqi intelligence.

The Czech counterintelligence service reported that the Sept. 11 hijacker [Mohamed] Atta met with the former Iraqi intelligence chief in Prague, [Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir] al Ani, on several occasions. During one of these meetings, al Ani ordered the IIS finance officer to issue Atta funds from IIS financial holdings in the Prague office.

This story is just breaking - there will be more to come, I'm sure.

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