To: Noel de Leon who wrote (185428 ) 4/20/2006 7:36:07 PM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (3) | Respond to Al Qaeda was off the radar until 1996 when in a CIA report Al Qaeda was mentioned once The world had ample warning of Osama's plans, since his earliest Declaration of War against the Americans in 1996, and the other fatwahs reproduced below. mideastweb.org fas.org Is it possible that Atta was in Florida rather than Prague? Of course it is. But the known evidence militates strongly against that conclusion: an eyewitness puts Atta in Prague, meeting with al-Ani; we know Atta was a "Hamburg student" and represented himself as such in a visa application; it has been reported that the Czechs have al-Ani's appointment calendar and it says he was scheduled to meet on the critical day with a "Hamburg student"; and we know for certain that Atta was in Prague under very suspicious circumstances twice in a matter of days (May 30 and June 2, 2000) during a time the Czechs and Western intelligence services feared that Saddam, through al-Ani, might be reviving a plot to use Islamic extremists to bomb Radio Free Europe (a plot the State Department acknowledged in its annual global terror report notwithstanding that the commission staff apparently did not think the incident merited mention). nationalreview.com captainsquartersblog.com 70.169.163.24
