{"id":266,"date":"2003-12-14T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=266"},"modified":"2003-12-14T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2003-12-14T15:22:51","slug":"hmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Hmm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/12\/14\/wterr14.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2003\/12\/14\/ixnewstop.html\">Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">Iraq&#8217;s coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Details of Atta&#8217;s visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n<p>The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day &#8220;work programme&#8221; Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal&#8217;s base in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta &#8220;displayed extraordinary effort&#8221; and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be &#8220;responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the memo, which is headed &#8220;Niger Shipment&#8221;, contains a report about an unspecified shipment &#8211; believed to be uranium &#8211; that it says has been transported to Iraq via Libya and Syria.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course it does.<\/p>\n<p>Count on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/04\/22\/ngall22.xml\">Telegraph<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/presspublishing\/story\/0,7495,941237,00.html\">to be <i>the<\/i> paper<\/a> with exclusive access to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissidentvoice.org\/Articles6\/Petersen_Galloway.htm\">extremely valuable <\/a>information at <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/iraqandthemedia\/story\/0,12823,941660,00.html\">just the right time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam Iraq&#8217;s coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdXTf-hmm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}