9/11 Bombshell: Mohamed Atta Trained in Baghdad
A bombshell memo written to Saddam Hussein in 2001 and recently
uncovered by Iraq's new coalition government shows that lead 9/11 hijacker
Mohamed Atta was trained to attack the U.S. in Baghdad.
The memo, authored by Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush
al-Tikriti, is dated July 1, 2001 and describes the "work program" undertaken by
Atta at a base in Baghdad run by notorious Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal,
reports London's Sunday Telegraph, which obtained the document exclusively.
If authentic, the document would be the first explicit evidence implicating
Iraq in the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, since it makes a
direct reference to what appears to be the 9/11 plot.
In one passage, the Iraqi intelligence chief reportedly informs Saddam that
Atta had demonstrated his capability as leader of the team "responsible for
attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy."
Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the
document, the paper said. But Dr. Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling
seven-man Presidential Committee, said the document was genuine.
"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with
al-Qaeda," he told the Telegraph. "But this is the most compelling piece of
evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have
contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September
11 attacks."
In October 2001, two Iraqi defectors told U.S. intelligence that they helped
train militant Muslim fundamentalists to overcome U.S. flight crews using
hijacking techniques never seen before 9/11 at a south Baghdad training camp
known as Salman Pak.
One of the defectors, Sabah Khodada, subsequently told PBS that he believed
the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by "graduates of Salman Pak."
In what could turn out to be one of the greatest intelligence blunders of the
post-9/11 era, the CIA and FBI dismissed Khodada and other eyewitness accounts
of the hijack training regimen at Salman Pak, though their story was
corroborated by satellite photography showing the fuselage of the airliner on
which they trained.
The Telegraph report makes no mention of Salman Pak or the accounts from
eyewitnesses suggesting the camp may have played a role in 9/11.
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