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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: American Spirit who wrote (19814)5/2/2004 5:17:03 PM
From: Brumar89Read Replies (1) of 81568
 
Now it seems there is a split opinion between different Czech government officials.

Congratulations on being the first person to try to document an opinion - amazing its you. Too bad you didnt give the link but I found it.

Here's a Prague Post article where the Czech intelligence officials stand by their story:
praguepost.com
..."We have no new information," government spokesman Libor Roucek told The Prague Post. "What's been said, we stick to it."
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Interior Minister Stanislav Gross insisted there was no reason to doubt initial reports of the meeting by the Czech intelligence service (BIS).

"Right now I do not have the slightest information that anything is wrong with the details I obtained from BIS counterintelligence," Gross said. "I trust the BIS more than journalists."
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And here's the story you posted where another Czech intelligence official expresses doubt about it:
praguepost.com

The chief of the Czech foreign intelligence has cast doubt on government reports that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague before last year's terrorist attacks in the United States.

It was the first time a ranking Czech intelligence figure had publicly challenged official accounts regarding whether the meeting took place.

Frantisek Bublan, director general of the Office of Foreign Relations and Information (UZSI), the nation's foreign intelligence wing, told The Prague Post he doubted whether Atta would have met Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, a second consul at the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, so close to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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