Editing Mohamed Atta (section)

=== Prague controversy ===
{{Main|Mohamed Atta's alleged Prague connection}}

In the months following the [[September 11 attacks|11 September attacks]], officials at the Czech Interior Ministry asserted that Atta made a trip to [[Prague]] on 8 April 2001, to meet with an [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraqi]] intelligence agent named Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani. This piece of information was passed on to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] as "unevaluated raw intelligence".<ref>{{cite news |author=Edward Jay Epstein |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007584 |title=Atta in Prague |publisher=OpinionJournal |date=22 November 2005 |access-date=16 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930190824/http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007584 |archive-date=30 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> Intelligence officials have concluded that such a meeting did not occur. A [[Pakistan]]i businessman named Mohammed Atta had come to Prague from [[Saudi Arabia]] on 31 May 2000, with this second Atta possibly contributing to the confusion. The Egyptian Mohamed Atta arrived at the [[Florenc Central Bus Station|Florenc bus terminal]] in Prague, from [[Germany]], on 2 June 2000. He left Prague the next day, flying on [[Czech Airlines]] to [[Newark, New Jersey]], [[United States|U.S.]] In the [[Czech Republic]], some intelligence officials say the source of the purported meeting was an Arab informant who approached the Czech intelligence service with his sighting of Atta only after Atta's photograph had appeared in newspapers all over the world. United States and Czech intelligence officials have since concluded that the person seen with Ani was mistakenly identified as Atta, and the consensus of investigators is that Atta never attended a meeting in Prague.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.radio.cz/en/article/57782/limit |title=A Tale of Two 'Attas': How spurious Czech intelligence muddied the 9/11 probe |publisher=Radio Praha |date=3 September 2004 |author=Kenety, Brian |access-date=16 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203054004/http://www.radio.cz/en/article/57782/limit |archive-date=3 February 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In Prague, a tale of 2 Attas; Mistaken identity muddied 9/11 probe |work=Chicago Tribune |date=29 August 2004 |author=Crewdson, John}}</ref><ref name="Burke2005_17">[[#Burke2005|Burke (2005)]], p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_FJFFrit8AC&pg=PA17&dq=%22Credit+card+documents+proved+Atta+to+have+been+in+America+at+the+time+of+the+alleged+meeting%22 17.]</ref>