Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani

[Boomhauer]

Breaking News: Man who allegedly met with terrorist Atta has been caught in Iraq

CBS News' David Martin

CBS Evening News, reporter David Martin is reporting an exclusive that the Iraqi leader who may have met with Mohamed Atta in Prague prior to his terrorist attack on 9/11 has been caught.

 

[crash-proof]

Good

 

[crosscut]

Did his name give him away?

 

[learflyer]

Yeah, I guess if his name was Bob Schwartz it wouldn't be an issue. Sounds guilty to me!

 

[s.o.sJTB]

It means about as much as the WMD's that could be used and launched within 45 minutes, the Uranium purchased from Nigeria, the mobile Bio weapons labs, the unmanned Bio weapons drones....and all the other "unquestionable" evidence of Iraqs threat. We've been had just like the investors in Cheney's energy swindle.

 

[wasted state]

Good info on Al-Ani




On October 21, 2002, the New York Times reported on its front page that "The Czech president, Vaclav Havel, has quietly told the White House he has concluded that there is no evidence to confirm earlier reports that Mohamed Atta, the leader in the Sept. 11 attacks, met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague just months before the attacks on New York and Washington."


This scoop, which the Times' attributed to anonymous "Czech officials," suggested that the alleged meeting between Atta and the Iraqi official had not occurred, and, even worse, that President Bush had learned of the misunderstanding from the phone conversation with President Havel but he had failed to disclose it.

As it turned out, the scoop itself, and not the meeting, was the fabrication. On October 21st (after the story appeared) President Havel stated through his spokesman that he had never spoken to President Bush or the "White House" about this meeting. His spokesman, Ladislav Spacek, stated unequivocally that the Times claim that Havel had called Bush, or any other high-ranking officials of his Administration, about the Atta meeting was "a fabrication." And that "Nothing like this has occurred."

Even so, on October 23rd, the Times again used the fabricated phone conversation between Havel and the White House. This time as the basis of an editorial, entitled "The Illusory Prague Connection," that argued that all the evidence from Prague linking Iraq to terrorism was wholly illusionary.

My question: Is there evidence that was found in Prague connecting Iraq to terrorist activities directed against the US?


Answer:

Yes. First, in 1998, Czech and British intelligence received detailed information from a high-ranking Iraqi official in Prague that the government of Iraq had provided $150,000 to finance the recruitment of terrorists to detonate a truck bomb in front of the headquarters of Radio Free Europe. The Iraqi official, Jabir Salim, who was the Iraqi consul in Prague, defected to England in December 1998. Since Radio Free Europe occupied the former Czech parliament building in the center of Prague, where a truck-bomb attack could cause casualties on the order of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Clinton Administration asked the Czechs to greatly increase security around the building.

Consequently, when al-Ani replaced Salim at the Iraq Embassy, the Czech intelligence service, BIS, kept close tabs on his activities in Prague to determine if he was continuing Salim's mission of recruiting terrorists. Then, in April 2001, al-Ani was seen meeting with a foreign national who had been a resident of Hamburg. The matter was brought to the attention of Hynek Kmonicek, the deputy foreign minister. Since, as Kmonicek put it,"It is not a common thing for an Iraqi diplomat to meet a student from a neighboring country," he ordered al-Ani's expulsion. Al-Ani was the only Iraqi diplomat ever expelled from the Czech Republic.

Kmonicek, who had gone on to become the Czech Ambassador to the UN, confirmed that the "student" from Hamburg whom al-Ani was meeting in April 2001 was Mohamed Atta. On October 26th, 2002, in response to the NY Times story, he told The Prague Post not only that "the meeting took place," but that "the Czech government collected detailed evidence of the al-Ani/Atta meeting."

The meeting had been previously confirmed both by Jiri Ruzek, the head of the BIS, and Stanislav Gross, the Minister to whom Ruzek reports in May 2002. So all the officials that had been involved in the case, and its review, were satisfied that the evidence existed.

If these Czech government officials are correct in their assessment, then Atta came to Prague to meet with an Iraqi official 5 months before September 11th. Whatever their business may have been, the meeting would have been further evidence that two consecutive Iraqi intelligence officers, Salim and Al-Ani, had been involved with terrorists.

 

[wasted state]

U.S. Holding Iraqi Said to Have Met 9/11 Hijacker



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has taken into custody an Iraqi intelligence official who is reported to have met the ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers just months before the 2001 attacks, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.



The military took Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani into custody last week, the official said.


Some Czech officials have said al-Ani met Mohammed Atta, suspected leader of the hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites), in Prague in April 2001.


The CIA (news - web sites) and FBI (news - web sites) were unable to confirm that the meeting took place.


In making its case for the war against Iraq (news - web sites), U.S. officials had suggested al Qaeda links to Baghdad, although no one has tied Iraq to the Sept. 11 attacks.


Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network has been blamed for the hijacked plane attacks that killed about 3,000 people.

 

[wasted state]

U.S. Forces Arrest Iraqi Linked to Atta
18 minutes ago

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - U.S. forces have arrested the Iraqi diplomat alleged by some Czech officials to have met with the lead Sept. 11 hijacker five months before the attacks.


AP Photo



U.S. government officials said Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani was arrested on July 2. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Ani had been interrogated but had provided little information.


The arrest was first reported Thursday by CBS News. U.S. investigators have dismissed Czech accounts of an April 2001 meeting in Prague between suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta and al-Ani, who is widely believed to be an intelligence agent.


Some Czech officials stand by their claims, the only known link between Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.


"Atta and al-Ani met," Czech U.N. Ambassador Hynek Kmonicek said a year ago in an interview with The Associated Press.


Czech officials said Atta had contacted al-Ani, who was later expelled from the Czech Republic, to discuss an attack on the Prague building that serves as the headquarters for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.


Other Czech officials retracted the account after U.S. investigators said that Atta was in the United States during the time he was supposed to have been meeting with al-Ani.

 

[Pee_nuss]

It means about as much as the WMD's that could be used and launched within 45 minutes, the Uranium purchased from Nigeria, the mobile Bio weapons labs, the unmanned Bio weapons drones....and all the other "unquestionable" evidence of Iraqs threat. We've been had just like the investors in Cheney's energy swindle.

I actually saw tommy franks on tv the other day claiming that the true weapon of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein, has been removed.


Thats right, Saddam Hussein is actually a nuclear weapon now.

Fair enough

nuss

 

[wasted state]

el pene

 

[wasted state]

el pene su el del nombre de usuario chupa

 

[merikeyegro]

...

Puede usted usar espanol corecto? No se puede entender nada lo que dijo usted. Creo que trato de explicar un situacion con usted y el pene de otro. Si? Pues, es necesario usar espanol mas claro si quisiera estar entendido.

Alguien mas quien me agrada?

(Espero que este mensaje esta entendible. Si no, no soy muy chistoso...)

 

[flywithastick]

Re: ...

Puede usted usar espanol corecto? No se puede entender nada lo que dijo usted. Creo que trato de explicar un situacion con usted y el pene de otro. Si? Pues, es necesario usar espanol mas claro si quisiera estar entendido.

Alguien mas quien me agrada?

(Espero que este mensaje esta entendible. Si no, no soy muy chistoso...)

Hey!! Sounds like you be one of those new "immigrants" we've had streaming into the southern US over the last 2+ decades. Anything we can get for you? College tuition? Free healthcare? SBA loan maybe?

 

[Snakum]

Hey!! Sounds like you be one of those new "immigrants" we've had streaming into the southern US over the last 2+ decades. Anything we can get for you? College tuition? Free healthcare? SBA loan maybe?

I know I'm not supposed to find this funny, being a tree-hugging liberal and all ... but d@mn ...

ROFLMAO!

Minh

 

[wasted state]

Re: ...

Puede usted usar espanol corecto? No se puede entender nada lo que dijo usted. Creo que trato de explicar un situacion con usted y el pene de otro. Si? Pues, es necesario usar espanol mas claro si quisiera estar entendido.

Alguien mas quien me agrada?

(Espero que este mensaje esta entendible. Si no, no soy muy chistoso...)

Verdaderamente odio spicko de el yo sólo llevé un año de ello en highschool usted de México?

 

[crosscut]

Re: Re: ...

Hey!! Sounds like you be one of those new "immigrants" we've had streaming into the southern US over the last 2+ decades...

"We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!!"

 

[El Guapo]

Border

Boy I didn't realize we had so many closed minded pilots here. You know, not all spanish speaking people come from Mexico looking for free hand outs.

It just so happens that most Latin American countries are full of corrupt politicians that rob their people blind and these people come here looking for a true sense of freedom.

I'm sure that if you were in their shoes, you too would try to risk your life to get a taste of freedom.

These people come here and take those jobs that no one else is willing to take. These people are one of the reasons why so many houses in Southwestern state are much more affordable than any other area. They work for peanuts and pass the savings along to the consumer. They work the fields, clean houses, etc...

Many of these undocumented people are exploited and have no one to turn to because they are here illegally.

The one's that qualify for SBA loans, tuition, and Medicare have to be documented tax paying citizens just like you and I.

So flywithastick, before you go to your next Skinhead's meeting you can better inform your "non-white people haters of America" of what you learned today.


Asi que libere su mente y lo demas lo sigue.

El Guapo

P.S. I'm not Mexican, but I am married to one.

 

[crosscut]

Re: Border

..Many of these undocumented people are exploited and have no one to turn to because they are here illegally...

Ah, ye-e-e-e-a-a-a-h, and your point? Could it be that they can't turn to anyone because they're undocumented & illegal?

BTW, did your Mexican spouse marry you for your citizenship / green card?

 

[GulfPilot]

Una bola de pendejos todos!

 

[flywithastick]

Re: Border

So flywithastick, before you go to your next Skinhead's meeting you can better inform your "non-white people haters of America" of what you learned today.

Asi que libere su mente y lo demas lo sigue.

El Guapo

P.S. I'm not Mexican, but I am married to one.

[/B]

Ding, ding, ding! There it is folks! You express a thought contrary to the utopian leftist diversity line and you're a skinhead!! Thanks for making another good point, amigo!

Without boring the rest of the readers debating info they probably don't care too much about, your comments were all either wrong or irrelevant based on what I've lived over the last 38 years - with only one exception. Housing is in fact probably cheaper with the labor supply available here.

Volar feliz a mi amigo. Tejas desaparece, y tenemos nadie culpar pero nosotros mismos.