'Atta met with Prague-based diplomat' - Czechs

Suspected suicide hijacker Mohammed Atta met at least once with an Iraqi intelligence agent during one of two trips to the Czech republic, a senior government official said today.

Interior minister Stanislav Gross said the meeting between Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani took place several weeks before Al-Ani’s expulsion from Prague on April 22, this year, for conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status.