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More Fake Documents, Newsweek reports:
-"A widely publicized Iraqi document that purports to show that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta visited Baghdad in the summer of 2001 is probably a fabrication that is contradicted by U.S. law-enforcement records showing Atta was staying at cheap motels and apartments in the United States when the trip presumably would have taken place," Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff report.
-"The new document, supposedly written by the chief of the Iraqi intelligence service, was trumpeted by the Sunday Telegraph of London earlier this week in a front-page story that broke hours before the dramatic capture of Saddam Hussein. TERRORIST BEHIND SEPTEMBER 11 STRIKE WAS TRAINED BY SADDAM, ran the headline on the story written by Con Coughlin, a Telegraph correspondent and the author of the book Saddam: The Secret Life.
--"But U.S. officials and a leading Iraqi document expert tell NEWSWEEK that the document is most likely a forgery—part of a thriving new trade in dubious Iraqi documents that has cropped up in the wake of the collapse of Saddam's regime."
Read the whole thing here.
It does seem that the neo-con-stocked, Hollinger-owned Telegraph tends to be pushing the most outrageous of the Laurie Mylroie crowd's fantasies. Yesterday, they published excerpts of Saddam Hussein's novel, which Laurie Mylroie sent around to her crew with the hysterically cryptic note: "NB: the reference to the burning twin towers in the allegorical America in Saddam's last novel, as described in this Daily Telegraph article." Well that certainly seems to prove the case! Saddam must have indeed been behind 9/11.