Tahir Jalil Habbush
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Forged 2003 Habbush letter
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According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Mohamed Atta is mentioned in a letter allegedly discovered in Iraq handwritten by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Takriti, former chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Habbush's 1 July 2001 memo is labeled "Intelligence Items", stating: Template:Quote
The memo is believed to be a forgery. According to Newsweek, "U.S. officials and a leading Iraqi document expert [say] 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."[5] In The Way of the World, author Ron Suskind alleges that the Bush administration itself ordered the forgery. Habbush then supposedly signed the letter, having already been resettled in Jordan with $5 million from the US.[6]
See also
- List of fugitives from justice who disappeared
- Mohamed Atta's alleged Prague connection
- U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis
References
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