Talk:Mohammed Atta

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Some mindless nonsense excised from the original article... Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured him, and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement Israel had to agree to release so called "political prisoners". However, they would not release any with "blood on their hands". A well meaning American President, Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher "insisted" that all be released. Thus Mr. Atta was freed and eventually "thanked the US" by flying an airplane into tower one of the World Trade Center.

This was reported by many of the networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified. It was censored in the USA from all later reports.

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The released terrorist you talk about above has a similar name but is not identical with Mohammad Atta, the subject of this article. For one thing, he would be way too old. Our Atta is 33. --AxelBoldt

Then in 1986 he would have been 16-17. Why is that too young to blow up a bus? Can you prove or refute this for me? -- Matti

90 seconds on google answers all... the original "Mahmoud Atta" was a 33 year old Jordanian when arrested in 1986 (they can check these things, you know). Apart from being Jordanian, (not Saudi), being 17 years older, and having a different first name, they're almost indistinguishable. [1] (http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/atta.htm) For what it is worth, this bus-blowing Atta was actually captured by the FBI (not Israelis) in 1991, three years after Reagan left office. - MMGB

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And what exactly was Mr. Atta supposedly going to do with the suicide note? If he left the bag behind, forgetting it, then obviously he meant to take it with him, so someone please explain to me why it would make sense to take a suicide note with you on a plane you hope to explode against a building. Too convenient by half.

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Google says "Mohammed Atta" is more popular than "Mohammad Atta"...but on "Mohammad Atta," Wikipedia gets the second result! --LMS

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Since Atta hasn't been convicted in any court, perhaps "suspected terrorist" would be a more appropriate label? -- Zoe

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Atta had jobs with the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft. http://www.google.com/search?q=atta+duisberg ... and how come three bags with three terrorists? The whole thing smells of some secret-service job. The planes were flown by remote-control and special mission software, for me that is certain. The flight paths were too perfect, and the circumstances (lost bags, manuals, bad-cessna-pilots, portland-flight risking lost connection!) are too lousy. As if they were created-tracks for us all to believe the far more convenient thing, that religious-fanatic-lunatics did this. And not ice-cold calculating entrepreneurs in the pay of high-finance.

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Moved this:

He may have been homosexual, see [2] (http://www.msnbc.com/news/650518.asp) and his will (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_atta_will).

to here. He may indeed have been homosexual (he may indeed have been heterosexual or anything in between), but neither referrence supports that fact: the first is a column decrying the urge to identify one's enemies as homosexual and the refusal to recognize victims of terrorism as such, and the second, his will, simply outlines more or less standard Islamic religious ritual which dictates that women not attend funerals of men. -- Someone else 02:52 Apr 28, 2003 (UTC)