Post 9-11 report about the hijacker meeting with Iraqi Intelligence?

[funkybutt]

Does anyone else remember the news reports about this meeting between one of the hijackers and the head of the Iraqi Intelligence? I never noticed the media correcting themselves. It seemed that the story just fell off the edge of the earth! Could it be because it was FABRICATED? I wish someone would investigate the source of this information.

[librechik]

1. this has been debunked many times, but nobody told Cheney

not to use the info anymore.

[lovedems]

3. Cheney just thinks that if you tell a lie enough times

it will eventually become the truth. It hasn't worked yet but he is "staying the course"!

[htuttle]

2. It was discredited about a million ways

For one, the hijacker who was supposedly meeting with Iraqi intelligence in the Czech republic was under surveillance in Florida at the time. The FBI is in possession of several credit card receipts for him from Florida during the time he was alleged to be overseas.

Also Czech intelligence has stated the meeting never happened.

Not sure how much of this was mentioned more than once on television news, however.

[funkybutt]

4. I missed the corrections

Probably because i watched cnn. It just seems to me that this information was leaked to the media by the administration in an attempt to contribute to the build up for war with Iraq.

[gandalf]

5. "FABRICATED?"

You found a good word here to describe most of the 9/11-related news items...

[gandalf]

6. Always look here first: Paul Thompson's 9/11 Timeline

Timeline

http://www.complete911timeline.org/updates/update18.html
April 8, 2001: Supposedly, Atta flies from the US to Prague, Czech Republic, and meets with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an Iraqi spy. He returns on April 9 or 10. But did he actually fly to Prague? A US official later states, "Neither we nor the Czechs nor anybody else has any information was coming or going at that time." FBI Director Mueller states, "We ran down literally hundreds of thousands of leads and checked every record we could get our hands on, from flight reservations to car rentals to bank accounts," yet no evidence that he left the country was found. Investigators believe Atta was in Florida the whole time, and the Czech government eventually agrees. But assuming al-Ani met with someone, could it be someone other than Atta, perhaps someone impersonating him? "After months of investigation, the Czechs they no longer certain that Atta was the person who met al-Ani, saying 'he may be different from Atta.'" "Some in Prague who knew the diplomat say he met with a used car salesman named Saleh from Nuremberg, Germany, who looked like Mr. Atta. 'He is a perfect double for Atta,' said a Syrian businessman who has lived in Prague for 35 years and says he knew the diplomat and the car salesman. 'I saw him several times with .' ... Czech intelligence officials offered still another theory: the Mohamed Atta who came to Prague last April was not the hijacker but a Pakistani of the same name. 'He didn't have the same identity card number,' an unidentified Interior Ministry official told the newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes. 'There was a great difference in their ages, their nationalities didn't match, basically nothing — it was someone else.'" Could the use of an impersonator explain why some Czech officials remained convinced so long that Atta came to this meeting , while FBI investigators remained convinced that he never left Florida? See September 19, 2001-October 20, 2002 for the remarkable way coverage of this story has changed over time.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi funkybutt!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: