Word: atta
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...know that for seven years his officials lied to, cheated and frustrated the United Nations-imposed regime designed to eliminate his capacity to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. We know there has been no inspection of Iraq's weapons facilities for almost three years. We know that Mohamed Atta, thought to be the ringleader of the Sept. 11 terrorists, met in Prague with an Iraqi spy. With all that data, it's hardly surprising that some have made the obvious connection and wondered, ever since the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Suppose it is Saddam. What then...
...believes the most helpful leads in the Sept. 11 case will come not from those detained in the U.S. but from Germany, where Atta and other terrorists lived and the seeds of the hijackings were probably planted. Still, agents hope those detained here can help them identify patterns that will distinguish members of sleeper cells from innocent bystanders. And there's always a chance that a detainee who appears innocuous may turn out to be hiding something. "Understandably, nobody wants to be responsible for releasing the wrong person," says Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. "Even...
Early last week, Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta seemed certain, murderously so, that Northern Alliance forces would take Mazar-i-Sharif, a strategically crucial city in northern Afghanistan that has been the site of numerous bloody incursions over the past decade. It didn't matter that the Taliban had more men and more weapons there; Atta insisted that its morale was low and dropping by the minute, and that it was only a matter of time before defectors began spilling out. The 37-year-old commander had already led a premature and decidedly ill-conceived raid on Oct. 16, during which...
...When the push finally came, Atta's bravado was thoroughly exposed. On Monday evening, he and Dostum sent their men forward on foot and horseback, armed with AK-47s. Almost immediately they met resistance from the better-manned and better-armed Taliban. Depending on which account of the battle you believe, it was at best a defeat, at worst a rout. What is certain is that the reversal set the tone for a very bad week for the ragtag coalition of warlords ranged against the Taliban...
...Even as Atta and Dostum were taking a beating outside Mazar-i-Sharif, the Alliance was faring poorly in the initial rounds of a p.r. effort designed to shore up its place as a crucial element of the U.S.-led military strike against the Taliban and, as important, a power player in any post-Taliban government in Afghanistan. From the start of the campaign, the U.S. has kept the Alliance, still the recognized government of Afghanistan, at arm's length. Knowing they needed the rebels' experience fighting the Taliban on its own terrain, the Americans promised logistical and material support...