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Remember Dick Cheney's repeated claim that an Iraqi intelligence operative met with Mohammed Atta in Prague in 2001? Well, it seems for the umpteenth time that such a meeting never occurred. "A former Iraqi intelligence officer who was said to have met with the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 attacks has told American interrogators the meeting never happened," the New York Times' James Risen reports. "Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the former intelligence officer, was taken into custody by the United States in July. Under questioning he has said that he did not meet with Mohamed Atta in Prague, according to the officials, who have reviewed classified debriefing reports based on the interrogations."
But somehow we expect that this will still not put the claim to rest in some circles.