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Article: Periscope: NEWSWEEK's unconventional look behind and beyond the news.(Iraqi involvement in 9/11/01 attacks probed)
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- October 29, 2001
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THE INVESTIGATION
Hard Questions About an Iraqi Connection
In investigating the Sept. 11 attack, few tasks are more difficult--and potentially more ominous--than unraveling the role of a mysterious Iraqi official named Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani. Until last spring, al-Ani was listed as the chief of consular affairs in the Iraqi Embassy in Prague. But last month U.S. officials were told by Czech intelligence that al-Ani had been spotted having a number of meetings with Mohamed Atta, the suspected hijack ringleader, near the Iraqi Embassy during a visit Atta made to the Czech Republic in April 2001.
The report prompted tense debate within ...