Terror Threat During Spring 2007 By Ryan Mauro

Eric Edelman, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, has criticized the Pentagon report that attacked Doug Feith. Feith has published an extraordinary response to it on his own web site, www.dougfeith.com. Edelman claims that one of the vehicles Mohammed Atta used to travel to Prague was registered to an agent of the Abu Nidal Organization, who was being harbored and sponsored by Iraq. It was at this Prague meeting that some have alleged that Atta met with the Iraqi Counsel Al-Ani. The CIA no longer believes this meeting ever took place, but the Czechs who originally reported the meeting and subsequently deported al-Ani, still believe it occurred.

Edelman claims that in 1998, Osama bin Laden actually met with Abu Nidal (Nidal was in Iraq at that time, but Edelman does not say if the meeting occurred there). At the meeting, bin Laden agreed to finance the Abu Nidal Organization “in return for unspecified assistance to Al-Qaeda.” Edelman states that Abu Nidal’s group was likely a liaison with bin Laden, as the organization responded to Iraqi government directives.

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