Is there a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda?

1) Note how the only article on the "Prague Link" from a serious source was from 2001? That should tell you something.The 9/11 commission went over and over and over the supposed link ad nauseam. There is absolutely no physical way Atta was there.For one, Atta was in Florida at the time. He never left the country. We have his phone records from the time. There was no plane ticket. We have his credit card records. Etc. It just didn't happen - he was in Florida the whole time. Both the CIA and FBI have released statements to this effect.The original report was based on the word of one witness, who claimed that he saw them from across the room. That's all it ever was. It's crazy that such a story could be born from such ridiculous circumstances, but it did.Furthermore, what Milos Zeman (the Czech President) stated they were talking about was the planned destruction of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. This completely contradicts what the BIS stated, in that they did not hear the conversation; it's kind of silly, too, given that Atta was only operating in the US.The next entry - the supposed "long term training" - is a reference to Salman Pak. Salman Pak is a well known INC fraud. Even well before we visited the site, it was highly suspect. The INC source (Khohada) claimed that the plane on-site was a Boeing 707, which it wasn't (it was a Tupolev 154). How did they come up with that error? A UN document describing the site had mistakenly misidentified the plane, and the INC source simply copied the error. The plane on-site was brought in and set up by the British as a counterterrorism training center, back during the 1980s when Iran was actively trying to hijack Iraqi airlines.As for Yasin - to the best of my knowledge, there never was even a simple extradition request made on for him by the US. Meanwhile, we and much of europe had dozens of al-Qaeda members living in our countries (and sometimes getting government benefits).If you need a reference on anything, just ask (if you need refs. for everything, I'll take the time to gather them all, but I'd rather not waste my time if they're not needed. I read a lot of news, but I don't bookmark everything ).

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Sure. Here's a huge list-o-references for Atta from the 9/11 report - see #69&70.http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-539.html
http://www.faqs.org/docs/911/911Report-540.htmlCzech president recants:
Redirecting...(I think this was the article that mentioned that it was based only on a single source, but it's been moved to pay content; you can still read the abstract).Here's one article on Salman Pak:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8194183.htmHere's another (I can't find the original, but someone posted its content - search for "What kind of plane is this?"):
http://forums.aclu.org/messageview.cfm?catid=121&threadid...I can't find my main article on this one, though; it was a really nice history of the site. Oh well Here's a nice site that addresses several of the claims that your conservative friend made:Edmit Chella Pollo – My personal blog about astronomy and telescopes resources

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"Illuminant light,
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