From NEWSWEEK, 12/18/03:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3741646
Dubious Link Between Atta and Saddam
A document tying the Iraqi leader with the 9/11 terrorist is probably
fake.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Newsweek
A widely publicized Iraqi document that purports to show that
September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta visited Baghdad in the summer of
2001 is probably a fabrication that is contradicted by U.S.
law-enforcement records showing Atta was staying at cheap motels and
apartments in the United States when the trip presumably would have
taken place, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and FBI
documents.
The new document, supposedly written by the chief of the Iraqi
intelligence service, was trumpeted by the Sunday Telegraph of London
earlier this week in a front-page story that broke hours before the
dramatic capture of Saddam Hussein.
TERRORIST BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11 STRIKE WAS TRAINED BY SADDAM, ran the
headline on the story written by Con Coughlin, a Telegraph
correspondent and the author of the book "Saddam: The Secret Life."
Coughlin's account was picked up by newspapers around the world and
was cited the next day by New York Times columnist William Safire.
But U.S. officials and a leading Iraqi document expert tell NEWSWEEK
that the document is most likely a forgery--part of a thriving new
trade in dubious Iraqi documents that has cropped up in the wake of
the collapse of Saddam's regime.
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Safire and his crowd of loony right-wingers'll run with any ***** story
that's fed to them. Typical.
Harry
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