Question:
Vice President Cheney ignited a firestorm in the press
(and perhaps the White House) by asserting that one
of the most vexing allegations about 9-11, the putative
liaison between hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi official
al-Ani, still is unresolved. Asked about the issue on
Meet The Press ( September 14, 2003), Cheney answered:“The
Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta,
the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi
intelligence official five months before the attack,
but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of
that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting
it. We just don’t know.”
The Washington Post ( September 29, 2003) denounced
the Vice President for suggesting that the putative
meeting was still an open issue, arguing “that
the Czech government distanced itself from its initial
assertion.” And that “American investigators
determined Atta was probably in the United States at
the time of the meeting.”
Who is right? Vice President Cheney or the Washington
Post?
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