Mohammed Atta DIDN'T Meet with Iraqi Intelligence...Never Mind... Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "Brenda Bennett" JUDICIAL WATCH For Immediate Release - May 3, 2002 Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 BUSH ADMIN ADMITS FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CONFIRM MOHAMMED ATTA'S MEETING WITH IRAQI INTELLIGENCE OFFICER FBI Director Mueller Says Investigation Relied on Checking "Travel Records" Washington, DC, May 3--Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and legally prosecutes government corruption and abuse, expressed grave disappointment in the recent statement of a Bush administration official that there is no evidence that the alleged leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, met in April 2001 with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. Reports in the Washington Post and Newsweek magazine attribute the admission to an unidentified administration official. In November 2001, Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman flew to Washington, DC reportedly to personally provide Czech Intelligence Service reports and video that positively identified Atta meeting with Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer. The Washington Post and Newsweek report that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III admitted in a speech last month in San Francisco, CA that no leads had confirmed Atta's travel to Prague in April 2001. The unnamed Bush Administration official said FBI and CIA analysts who went over thousands of travel records concluded that "there was no evidence Atta left or returned to the U.S." at the time he was supposed to be in Prague. Judicial Watch believes that many of the travel records checked concerning Atta's travel were created and maintained by the incompetent Immigration and Naturalization Service -- the same agency that mailed student visas to the September 11th hijackers six months after their cowardly attacks. "It is highly unlikely that an international terrorist en route to meet an intelligence officer in a foreign capital would travel using his true name, and leave a paper trail of records for intelligence and security services to examine," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. "If Bush, Ashcroft and Mueller are relying on the INS to make the connection between Atta and Iraq, it's no wonder they have failed," he added. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytact-05.10.02-20:50:51-25127