Captain's Quarters has posted the translation of what appears to be an Iraqi Intelligence Services (Mukhabarat) document discussing the use of diplomatic privileges to carry out terrorist attacks.
The 2003 document (CMPC-2003-005745.pdf) mentions (among other terrorist and sabotaging techniques) using a briefcase bomb that can make it through a security check.
Use of diplomatic briefcases as an explosive device that can not be detected by an X ray device
The use of Iraqi embassies and diplomats to carry out attacks has been a tool of the former regime since at least the first Gulf war when many of their diplomats were ejected from their posts in various countries for attempting attacks. Their embassies also played a vital role in the attempted attacks on the Radio Free Europe building in Prague, the preparations for terror attacks in 98 during a near war with the Clinton administration and various attacks during the leadup to the current war.
These suitcase bombs may have been involved in the attempted IIS attacks in Yemen, Jordan and elsewhere during the leadup to the current war or may have been for other yet-to-discovered attempted attacks.
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regarding links. first, could the planning around the radio free building in Czech have been a diversion to keep American eyes off of homeland as attack site?
second, 9/11 commission sa idit couldn't account for whereabouts of Atta in Feb/March 1998 and that in June he had a clean passport. Couldn't Atta have attended the Iraqi/al qaeda meetings in March 98 that have been noted in various places?
Posted by: larrykohn | July 8, 2006 9:50 PM
Posted on: July 8, 2006 21:50
Great job, Mark.
Regarding Atta, In Washington, the FBI moved to quiet the Prague connection by telling journalists that it had car rentals and records that put Atta in Virginia Beach, Va., and Florida close to, if not during, the period when he was supposed to be in Prague. The New York Times , citing information provided by "federal law enforcement officials," reported that Atta was in Virginia Beach on April 2, 2001, and by April 11, "Atta was back in Florida, renting a car."
All these reports attributed to the FBI were, as it turns out, erroneous. There were no car rental records in Virginia, Florida, or anywhere else in April 2001 for Mohamed Atta, since he had not yet obtained his Florida license.
His international license was at his father's home in Cairo, Egypt (where his roommate Marwan al-Shehhi picked it up in late April). Nor were there other records in the hands of the FBI that put Atta in the United States at the time. Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2002, "It is possible that Atta traveled under an unknown alias" to "meet with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague." Clearly, it was not beyond the capabilities of the 9/11 hijackers to use aliases.
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/PragueConnection.htm
Posted by: Mary Beth | July 9, 2006 7:32 AM
Posted on: July 9, 2006 07:32